Why you should use braided main line...

The advantages of using braid as a main line can be summed up in one word: feel. If you’ve never used braided line before, you’re in for a shock. The first time that your lead impacts the lakebed, you’ll wonder how you ever felt a thing through conventional monofilaments. There’s no doubting when you land on gravel; the impact will practically knock your fillings out, and the subtle differences between firmer dinner plates on silty lakes will never have been so apparent. Spot finding becomes easy when you can feel the lakebed so easily, and it’s much less like groping around in the dark!

The precision that’s possible with braid can take your angling to another level

The precision that’s possible with braid can take your angling to another level too. Not only will you be able to feel which part of your spot is the firmest, smoothest, or most gravelly, you’ll be able to hit it time and time again, not to mention baiting up directly on top. Thanks to its zero-stretch make-up, if you clip-up to a spot with braid main line, then that’s exactly where it lands, time after time. There’s no need to allow for stretch or recoil, and you’ll be fishing more accurately than the guy next-door, which means more fish on the bank.

Thanks to its zero-stretch, you’ll hit the same spot every time

Of course, there’s another extremely good use to which you can put that stretch-free main line, and that’s snag fishing. When you’re fishing locked-up with braid, then you’re seriously locked-up! Once hooked, a carp can’t gain so much as an inch thanks to stretch – not something that can be said for mono. Usually, simply taking a few steps backwards will ease even the hardest-fighting carp away from danger. A word of warning though, be on your rods at ALL times when snag fishing with braid because the action can be explosive.

Because of that zero-stretch, braid’s also awesome for snag fishing

The final step on your braid conversion will come when you use it for range fishing. All the long-range experts prefer to use braid when they can, simply because it’s thinner for its breaking strain than the equivalent mono. That means less drag through the air, which gives you those precious extra yards. To cap it all off, that zero-stretch means that when you get a bite at mega range, you’ll know about it much quicker too!

All the long-range experts prefer to use braid when they can, simply because it’s thinner for its breaking strain than the equivalent mono