Braid Tips

[Back Beach]

I stopped using anything less than 30# PP braid for the reasons you mention. Nothing but trouble with it on spinning gear. 30# and up I've had no problems.

[zimmy]

I would definately check the line amount. Casting and such I'm sure has an effect, but 99% of the time if I have a problem it is right after a line change. I yank off a bit of line and the problem goes away.

As a note... I always close a bail manually (if the reel has one) and give a tug to make sure the line isn't looped over the spool. This becomes a second nature auto pilot kinda thing... Generally have no knot problems less those described above

[Flynny]

I used brad last year for the first time on some of my spinning reels (15# power pro). The first few times I was getting frequent knots, but I was also quite windy out. After that, never had any trouble and I will never go back to mono - in fact I am re-spooling my other spinning reels with braid for this year.