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Braid: hollow or solid?

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Chris Rowbottom:
What are most people using, hollow or solid?
I have only used solid in the past for other species.

Thoughts?
Thank you!
C

Mark Gonsalves:
Hollow for big stuff.  Solid for small stuff.  Plugging---hollow.

Trevor Skinner:
The only real advantage in hollow braid is that you can splice loops or even whole leaders into the main line rather than tying knots. That also means that you can top-up a spool without knots or having to replace the whole line.


Regards,



Trev

Mark Harris:
Like Trevor, I have never been able to see any advantage in using hollow unless you intend to splice.

Solid definitely casts a bit better.

Saltywater Tackle:
Hi Chris,

If you are targeting big fish in shallow water and you intend to use heavy drag, hollow is your ticket.
I've been using hollow line for GT fishing for the past 4 years and i am very happy with the results, there is a lot of advantages that goes to the usage of hollow and it is proven through time,
Hollow is stronger and take the initial strike better than braid, in case of a breakage you don't need to change your line, you can just splice it as Trevor mentioned, I use heavy drag in general and i barely ever broke a hollow, if i recall correctly it happen once or twice at the most in the past couple of years.
I would only use it targeting big fish on topwater, for jigging i would use solid braided line.

  Tight lines
   Sami

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