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3 Best Braid Fishing Line Options For Surf Fishing
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Jun 26, 2023
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Hey guys welcome back to Beach and Fishing Paul here with you again and this is my second video
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online for surf fishing and this one is my best braid surf braid what is it braid fishing line
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options for surf fishing so looking at braid in this video now most of us grew up or started
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fishing with the old mono fishing line which was the old nylon type fishing line that we've got here
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then this thing now i did some research the other day and actually said braid was one of
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the original fishing lines so you know in even back to what we would call historical or ancient
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times that people use braid but i do know when i started fishing that was just you went and bought
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some fishing line that's what you bought did you want good quality or just the the bottom of the
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run stuff which we all bought and off we went you know then braid this braid fishing line that we'd
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never heard of started to come out and it was this thin stuff it was often yellow or something like
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that and it was almost cotton feeling when you when you run your finger over it very strong very
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sensitive and yeah we just started putting it on all our reels from i think because it was something
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new and it was something exciting that was expensive so you didn't like buying too much of
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it but i must admit i braid on most of my my fishing rods my fishing reels now i think
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i was trying to explain to my wife actually the other day about braid and and mono when i bought
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a new reel i know it wouldn't you bake cast a reel and i got some braid put onto it and i was
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trying to explain to her why because at the same time i bought some fluorocarbon so i was trying
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And this was actually more expensive than the braid. And we're trying to, she was asking me why I use braid
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And I'd sort it to be, if I'm being honest, I couldn't really give her a clear answer
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I like using it. I like the way it feels when it casts. I like the sensitivity I can feel on it
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It just feels smoother when I'm casting. It's horrendous to try and tie knots with
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If it tangles, you are not getting it untangled. As I found out with my new bait cast
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When I second reel in, I didn't have my tension adjusted done popping
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Up she came. So it doesn't cut real easily. But it is, you know, I like it
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I like using it. It's nice and strong. It's, as I say, it's sensitive
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I can cast well. It's cast smoothly. It doesn't hold its line, which helps it cast smoothly
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And it just gives me a bit more strength. And to be honest, I think the main reason which I like using braid is because
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I can put a lot heavier line weight onto a smaller reel
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I'm one of these people who just likes having that heavy line rate. There's nothing that drives me bananas more than snapping a line that's not your knot
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I mean that annoying too but snapping a line when you got a fish on If the line gives away that just that my pet hate So just my personal preference What is braid Braid is a series of polymer strands I think they are or carbon polymer strands
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They can be up to eight strands and they intertwine them, like braided hair, that's why it's called braid
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And I think anyway, but it's the same sort of thing. and it's braided together to give you a really strong very thin nicely floating line
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its brake strength is a lot higher than mono it is a lot thinner than mono which is why you can
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load heavier line strength onto a smaller reel and I'll show you a table in a second where you
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can see a demonstration of that and yeah I as I keep saying it's just stronger smaller again
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like in the mono video i think i'm just trying to find extra things to explain to it instead of just
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going to the the videotape and seeing why it's better for surf fishing so let's have a look at
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the at the pros uh thinner as i mentioned longer casting stronger as i've said more durable long
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lasting it's uh fish bites and abrasions it's a lot stronger doesn't hold the shape more sensitive
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as i said and because it's thinner it's stronger it's easy to cast in wind and that's another
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reason why I put it on my surf rods because when you cast if you've got your if it's a bit windy
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and you've got a big bait in the water then the because the braid is so thin it will actually
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the wind doesn't affect it as much current still does that depends on your sinker but the
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the the line in the in the wind is quite good so the only the things to be aware of with this and
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I've already mentioned that if you're a beginner just go to mono just get mono if you're someone
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who's you know new with new to fishing or doesn't fish a lot I would just be going down and getting
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yourself some decent mono this is Jarvis Walker brand I like the Berkley brand as well but if
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you're someone who really who's wants to get into fishing or fishes a bit and likes extra sensitivity
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wants to cast a bit further anything like that I'd be using the braid the only other problem with
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braid is that in most cases you'll need a mono leader anyway so this is a rig that I've got set
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up for another video as I did on surf rigs and you can see here I've actually had to tie or I've tied
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some braid to some mono so because if you attach your lure directly to the braid there's no gib
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mono has stretch to it whereas braid doesn't and I have lost count of the times where I've lost a
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lure whilst fishing and then gone oh stuff I'm just going to attach the lure straight to the
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and then three casts in a snaps because there's no give. So that is, I don't know if that's my casting style
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you comment below if you know it's my casting style, which I have a sneaking suspicion it might be
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But anyway, I don't get that on the mono. So that's another thing to consider when it comes to braid
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But if braid something you wish I just bought this one here It a Berkeley Fireline ultra eight which means there eight strands of line in the in the braid and i use it on my bait caster it casts really well
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this one's interesting it's really smooth it's this one here which is i it granted is a cheaper
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braid as i said before you can feel i can feel the braid or the the cotton feel to it i haven't got
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any of this one left but it's really smooth when I when I run it it's quite interesting it's I
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haven't felt it before thermally fused eight carry fire line is smoother than ever there you go
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I noticed that and I put this on my bait caster and I'm about to do some reviews because it's a
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new bait caster I'm about to do some videos and reviews on it so I'll let you know how the braid
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goes in that as well but if you're looking for some braid uh what is what's it made of um
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um doesn't really say there uh polyethylene compounds i knew it was some sort of poly
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something uh and you can still get cotton and silk ones as well so let's have a look and as i said
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before if you look braid one of the advantages is you know if i've got a 2000 or 20 or 2000 reel
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i can put four to six pound of mono but five to ten pound of braid if you've got a 6 000 reel
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you can put 12 to 16 pound of mono or 12 to 30 pound of braid I've got a 6,000 reel that I just
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bought for lure fishing the surf put some braid on it and it just casts beautifully the braid is
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a Berkeley braid as well but it's one that they just built on for me on for me at the place I
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bought it so I don't know exactly what it is but it's really good I like the braid on those sort of
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things for casting and I've got an 18 pound on a 6,000 line and it fits on beautifully it's not too
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big okay so let's have a look at the three I've come up with first one is more cost effective for
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those of you who just want to try braid and see how it goes uh eight straight brand and eight
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strand braids with diamond weave structure 10 to 300 pounds 16 color options yeah there's color
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options all different types and depending on how much you want to pay 109 up to 1094 yards
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uh 14.97 wouldn't be for that one that's a bit it would be um
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for the smaller wouldn't be for the 1094 yards that's for sure
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uh not strengthening abrasion resistance some people tie all their knots to their braid i don't
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i use mono leaders for mine but that's personal preference i think and it's a great there's good
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price really good price for some based on the reviews 2,548 reviews and based on the price I
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think that's a well worth a look second one cast king cast wing cast king is another very good
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I've got some cast king fluorocarbon on order at the moment this one is a strong braid and they they promote this as being
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a little narrower so if you want really good cast length this would be one that you could choose from choose that for four strand braids 8 to 150 pound five colors and 327 to 1 yards
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Again, the price adjusts depending on where you're going with that. But as you know, ultra sensitive, zero stretch
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That's why we use the mono sometimes. And as I say, I chose this one, smaller diameter
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apart from the really good reviews. And so you can put more on your line
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If you're someone who's trolling on out to sea and you want a really lot of line out
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and once you've got your line out, you need a lot more to handle the massive fish
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that's gonna drag you around the ocean for an hour or so, then this one could be the one to go with
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And third one is the Berkeley. To be honest, I chose it
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because it's the one I just bought and it's really, really good. So it's smoothies, this bill casts really well
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Eight strand, four to 30 pound. It's got crystal, fluoro yellow or smoke colour
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Fluoro, what am I trying to say here? Braid line does tend to be more visible to fish
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which is another reason why you use the monoliter, but it's also a reason why they're starting to play with all the colours
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trying to find colours that the fish can't see as well. This one, they say, is four times more abrasion resistant
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round and more consistent line structure, and that's what I was saying before. it's it's so much smoother than the um than any other braid i've felt it felt feels almost like
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mono it's that smooth around the around it um i've got it my bait caster really good you could
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do a lot worse than that one as well a little bit more expensive than the others but you could do a lot more worse than that one on your surf line as well okay guys that's it that's my three braid
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fishing line options for surf fishing i hope that was helpful for you hope i've managed to explain
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braid for you properly. If you're watching this with a new tube please like
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and subscribe to my channel that way you can keep up with all my results to do with my using of this. I'm about to load I know we're in a braid video but I'm
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actually about to sounds like a music video doesn't I'm about to load
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fluorocarbon onto one of my spinning reels and just to see how going back to
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some fluorocarbon mono goes on a reel I haven't used mono on reels for a long time and I'm keen
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just to see and I've never had fluorocarbon just spilled on my line most people use it for
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as a leader I'm going to go away from that and just see how that goes so comment below if you
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think I'm off the reservation there but that is just something to think about so if you're watching
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this YouTube subscribe for all those reasons if you're watching this within the post I'd love to
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hear about the types of braid you use if you've got experience with any braid options that I've
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mentioned below if you're an avid braid user and can tell me why or if you don't use braid you've
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used braid and don't anymore can tell me why again would love to hear from you below thanks guys
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have great fishing chat you soon bye
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