braid on a fixed spool

Joined: Dec 17, 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Gosport, Hampshire

Hi Guys

Can i use braid on a fixed spool for beach casting?. Some people have said yes others have said no what do you think?

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:08 pm

Yes, you can use braid on a fixed spool and on certain occasions its the best thing to do but i dont really reccomend it for beach casting. spinning, float fishing or clean beach fishing then yeah but its expensive the tide tends to drag it and and it tends to fray if u buy cheaper ones.

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:48 pm

What intrigues me is why you would want to do it anyway? I know that bite detection is supposed to be better but I have never had any trouble with monofil - even pout or gurnard soon let you know they are there and school bass and small bream always bang around anyway.

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:15 pm

good point, ive never came across that eevn if it is exceptionally obvious. however there are some species of fish that do feed very shyly and will give the smallest of bites. once when on chesil beach i ended up with my guide fishing coarse fishing feeder rods for flatties and these were getting on for 2lb's but the bites they gave barely moved our quivertips it was unbelievable, braid will have helped then but you do tend to lose more fish

Occasional Joined: Dec 02, 2005 Posts: 144

the main advantage is that it's half the thickness of mono. this means it will cut through the air, tide, weed etc easier.

it also doesn't stretch so the bite detection is better. but if you strike too hard it will rip the hook clean out of the fishes mouth.

on the down side it's harder to make non sliping knots in braid and it may tend to bed down on the reel.

i guess you'll have to tryu it and see.

Member Joined: Jan 14, 2006 Posts: 9 Location: NEW ZEALAND

Hi, I am a recent convert to braid, both on fixed spool and moving spool reels, and after fishing with a moving spool line from a boat, have been impressed by feeling bites from very small fish(which I have landed) in over 150 feet of water. A recent conversion to braid on my Shimano Big Baitfeeder, basically doubled my casting distance. I have 30 lb braid with about three rod lengths of 65 lb braid as a shockleader, tied to the mainline with a double uni knot, and a further 1 rod length of 50 lb mono to my hooks and sinker. With braid being expensive, it is sometimes wise to use a mono backing behind the braid, to keep the cost down. The braid has been very effective in the last couple of weeks, fishing both off the rocks and off the beach. Good qaulity braid will fur after a while but this is usually the braid on the shockleader which can be replaced at little cost.

Kind regards and tight lines.
SNOWKIWI

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I have used braid on my fixed spools for 2 seasons. i do alot of flattie bashing and i find it invaluble for bite detection. You can even see the crabs on the bait (well through the rod tip). futher to earlier answers, i find it cuts through the tide like a demon. also as there is no stretch it pulls out of snaggs REAL good. cant fault it, would never go back to mono, Sure its expensive, but with a little care it will last a lifetime. big grin

I would use 20 to 25lb for beach. This would be the same thickness as 15lb mono! (roughly)

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 12:06 pm

Has anyone any experience of using braid on a multiplier from the beach? I must admit I have been wary to try although I do use braid almost exclusivly for boat fishing and would say it has transformed my experience with the connection you feel, bite detection and so on

I have heard that it tends to dig in and cause problems but would be de;lighted to hear from anyone with practical experience of this

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:45 pm

Your right the braid most certainly can dig in to the line on the spool when reeling in because its being put on the spool under tension so when casting if u find a bit caught underneath something has got to give... bye bye to 100yards+ of braid i reckon and if you got a birdnest would be alot harder to untanlge than mono due to the diameter and supplness of it... I have used braid for carp fishing as a main line but soon changed back as the stretch you get from mono gives you a good buffer zone... and if you get snagged up far better to lose bit of mono than braid and the mono requires less force to snap... but both lines have there uses... what about the berkly fireline? is not a braid and not a monofilament!

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:03 pm

Thanks for that Yeh. pretty much as I thought.Dont know much about fireline, will have to look into it

One thing I learnt about braid early on was how easy it is to shake the fish off as theres no buffer zone and stretch as with mono. I was using my usual 50lb class for heavy duty wrecking and lost so many fish the first time out I had to rethink. A change to 20/30 class meant much more enjoyable fishing...connection..and the like. Braid has transformed the way I wreck.Shame about the shore..Am I right in thinking that in heavy tides braid would break the leads out?

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daneinter wrote:

Thanks for that Yeh. pretty much as I thought.Dont know much about fireline, will have to look into it

One thing I learnt about braid early on was how easy it is to shake the fish off as theres no buffer zone and stretch as with mono. I was using my usual 50lb class for heavy duty wrecking and lost so many fish the first time out I had to rethink. A change to 20/30 class meant much more enjoyable fishing...connection..and the like. Braid has transformed the way I wreck.Shame about the shore..Am I right in thinking that in heavy tides braid would break the leads out?

I find braid lovely in strong tides myself......But no, dont cast braid on a multi.

If you get the slightest birdie u will never unpick it