Fishing Line Guide for Bass Fishing

After jumping head first into this Bass fishing game, I ended up picking up four bass rod set-ups.  Low profile bait casters.  I prefer larger game and most of my stuff is running braided line so instinctively I went and bought or transferred braid onto these rigs.  Now, after doing some research into "the game", I have come to realize braid is not as widely used as I thought.  With all the lure variations and techniques, the line becomes very critical in the way that it affects presentation, floats, sinks, casts, cuts, visibility, sensitivity, etc.  So, in general, the type of line has as many variables as which lure to choose.  After researching some more I came upon this guys site which lay out wise looked and presented itself well, looks well thought out, and looks like it is fairly encompassing, especially for someone at the level I am at.

Check it out and see if it helpful.

I ended up with all braid on one, braid with fluoro leader on one, and straight Fluoro on two.  The spinning rods have lighter fluoro.

http://www.bassfishin.com/blog/fishing-line-guide/

thanks for the info!

Thanks for sharing that. I always take two rods. My Talora Kokanee rod to troll with and a Medium action Shakespear Agility that is my Bass/Crappie/Jigging rod. I load both with 8lbs. line. Looks like my preferred methods for bass small swimbaits, drop shot, wacky rig etc. fit perfectly with 8 lbs line. Looks like I should spool it up with Fluoro though since those are all deep presentations where the sinking line sounds like it works better and would definitely help jigging for Kokes.

That fluoro can get messy on the spinning setups.  Works ok for the most part, but can get messy with the line memory, which is why I choose to go with 15-20lb braided line on my spinning setups.  Casting setups should be ok with all fluoro.  Through the years, I've tried various lines, but in the end, I have ended up with all braided lines, tipped with fluoro line in 6, 8, or 12lb, except for my frogging/punching setup that is spooled with 50lb braided line.  Can't seem to find the video, but there was a good video by Matt Allen at tacticalbassin.com that explains his reasoning for going with braided line on all his setups, and it sure convinced me.  I guess the only downside is having to tie on a new leader every once in a while, but thats no big deal.

If you guys haven't checked out tacticalbassin, I highly recommend watching the videos, they have helped me quite a bit when I first started bass fishing.  Good luck!

I'll cover the extinct dinosaur end of the fishing spectrum. Still stuck in the 70s and 80s.

I only use Berkley mono. Big Game for salt and Trilene XL for fresh (rarely XT for river catfish).

Bass jig fishing/trout trolling w/divers (12 lb.), All around general bass/large crappie /crankbaits/light worming/bigger minnows/. (8lb.), and light crappie/trout /jig and minnow/small Kastmasters/ (6 lb.)

Still works just fine and I don't know any better    Ignorance is bliss!

I'm sure some of that new tech stuff has many superior (specific) applications but I will likely be slow to adapt.