Advantages & Disadvantages Of Mono-filament
Advantages & Disadvantages Of Mono-filament
What's the difference between monofilament fluorocarbon and braided line well you know that's probably one of most frequently asked questions?
Advantages of monofilament:
- One of the advantages of the monofilament line it's relatively inexpensive it doesn't cost a lot of money you can get a lot of lines.
- It's readily available most stores will carry it you can find it pretty much anywhere.
Disadvantages of monofilament:
- It stretches, with monofilament there is plenty and that's why I really don't like using monofilament line if I go to set the hook with monofilament and I lean back into them there's so much stretch in that line you would think that your hook would be set into the fish's mouth but not necessarily it might only be penetrating just a bit because there's a lot of stretches it's not very abrasion resistant so if I'm fishing the rocks and I'm going over top of rocks and structure it'll get nicked real easy and once it gets nicked it weakens significantly.
- Heavier line it's really thick and you just simply can't you like a 40lb test line on a spinning reel so you're basically limited to 20 lb test.
- It absorbs water so if I'm using monofilament it's sitting in the water it's absorbing water and over time it's going to just continue to weaken because of that water absorption factor.
- It absorbs light, monofilament line will even absorb regular light that you have in a store or even at home for that matter so monofilament should really always be kept in the dark and that's the thing when it's sitting on the shelf in your store it's getting weak because it's absorbing that light from the store.
Monofilament line really should have a shelf life I wish they'd put a manufacturer date on the on the package because it doesn't age very well so there's a lot of disadvantages to monofilament line.
When should you use monofilament?
- If I’m casting a topwater bait and working a topwater bait or if I'm with using a crankbait and the reason for that is on a topwater bait when you get a hit you want that a little bit of hesitation before you set the hook so the fact that there's a little bit of stretch actually is a good thing and same with the crankbait. when the fish hits and you go to set the hook that little bit of stretch gives that extra fraction of a second and it makes for a better hook set.
Tips:
If you use mono as a regular general rule, I would suggest is if you're out on the water a lot after each weekend or after a couple weeks rip off a little bit of line cut it off get rid of it because that lines been sitting in the water and been getting weak over time.
If you're fishing often you continue to do that and maybe two-three times throughout the course of the year but if you only fish a few times or a few times in a year one spool a mono is fine but at the end of the year take it off and reefs pull with some fresh line because it's cheap and it's just not worth keeping that old monofilament line on there so that's about it for mono.
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