[Ed Brabant]

Try taking a sharpie or a marks alot and color the end of your line. I use the ones that are about 1 1/2 inches around with a big chisle tip. The one thing that you HAVE to do with braid is loosen your drag. My son has shattered 3 tour edition flippin sticks because he likes the drag tightened down all the way. And with no strech pow the rod shatters. I use Stren super braid and have just started to use power pro. I LOVE the stren and the power pro isn't that bad either. Keep an eye on you rods for cracked guides. And I NEVER use the eye as a hook holder. I see a lot of people do that and then run down the lake with the hook grinding away on the eyes and then they wonder why their line breaks mono and braid. Hook the hook on a keeper by the reel. or stick it in the cork handel but never on the eyes. I use #65 on my slop rod. #65 on my carolina rod and #65 on my flipping rod. The only one I use the marker on is the Flippin rod and the spinning rods. And 20 on my spinning rods I use mono on 2 bait casters for topwater and spinner bait in open water. I have a hard time with a spook using braid. It keeps catching tha rear hook.