Thanks for the vid James!
What are your thoughts on using braid for main line? Would like to hear others chime in on this as well. For me, braid and tungsten is super sensitive for feeling the bottom and detecting subtle bites, and also helps getting the expensive weight back if I get the leader hung up...but would like to hear others weigh in on pros/cons of this.
Three different guides on Fork told me years ago that you will get less bites using braid as a main line. All three of them said two customers would show up to throw a C-rig and the one with braid as a main line would always get less bites. They all said that you will still catch fish with it but the customer that wasn't using braid would always get more bites. They said they have seen it many times over.
Because of their observations and suggestion, I started using fluorocarbon line as my main line. One thing that I did notice after the switch from braid, when I get the weight snagged on timber I can pull it tight and then snap the rod back quickly and that usually will cause the weight to snap off of what it was hung on. Not always, but most of the time. Braid does not stretch so you do not get that sling shot effect with it to get your weight loose. Rarely do I get the hook hung on something, most of the time it is the weight stuck against a piece of timber.