[Fishpocalypse]

Brad S,

You were right to disagree. Great post!

[thill]

Better yet, fill the reel with braid. Much better line capacity, and you can use a smaller and lighter reel for the same line capacity.

Doing this, I've gone from 4000 size spinners to 2500 size spinners. Popped a 50 and 42 this year, no problem. Not to mention a 40" redfish that suprised me, way up in MD waters of the Bay. Strong, those reds.

-TH

[livelybaits]

Good topic.

I've used mono backing on my spools mostly so I could get a few reels spooled up from one purchase of Power Pro.

The double sided tape trick does work well if you want to run the spool full of the stuff.

[Kribman]

It's weird, i have never backed up my braid with anything more than a piece of electrical tape. I have never had it roll back on me. P.S., a good way to prevent bail twist or "rat's nest" is to put one your furthest casting lure, toss it out as far as you can, strip out another ten or so feet and put down a piece of electrical tape to prevent the twists and loops from going deeper into the line.

[black_co]

I have never backed my braid either...

I just tie my knot and cut a little piece of the tape that holds the line on the spool and tape it in place. Then load the spool.

Then again, I'm not fishing BIG water either. The biggest water I will fish is a 7000 acre reservoir.

[King Bait Co.]

I think they use a mono backing because the braided is smaller then mono so you won't fill your reel all the way. Then as we all know no more 150 yard cast because the spool is only half full or less. When most people buy line they only get the filler spools because its cheaper. So in reality it would be cheaper to buy the cheapest mono to fill up some of the reel and be able to get a higher quailty braided line. A 150 yard of Stren Microfues is $16.99 for a 150yards to $32.99 for the 300 yarder. So I think some people may have made a story up because they didn't whant to spend the cash and look cheap. I did buy the stern microfuse 300 yard 30#.Filled four of my Diawa baitcasters it was only supposed to be big as 12# line. They only hold 150 yards per reel. Go figure that one out!

[HookUp]

1/3 reel mono backing.

tie mono to braid with favorite line connecting knot. Make sure knot connecting line is at the bottom of spool and push in with fingers to you wont knick any line comming off the spool.

2/3 braid.

You don't want to loose the fish of a lifetime because you only have 75 yards of braid on the spool (or less after retieing 82 times).