Braid or Mono for beachcasting

Hi, I'm new to sea fishing and use this website as a learning resource. Question is I need to replace the line in my beach caster. What would you recommend? Braid or mono and breaking strain please? Any help would be much appreciated.

[bigsod]

Is it a fixed spool or a multiplier? I use 25lb braid on my fixed spools and 14 to 30lb mono on my multipliers depending on conditions and the type of ground im fishing over.

Last edited by bigsod on Sun Oct 25, 2009 9:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Thanks, mines a fixed spool reel and I fish over sand ground mostly in north wexford.

Braid will work well for you then

I find braid to be fine on a fixed spool reel.The main advantages of braid are improved bite detection and the braid holds its own better in a heavy tide than mono also it seems to cut through a certain amount of weed when the sea is weedy.The main disadvantages are the wind knots that can tangle in the eyes of your rod that do seem to happen with braid and not realy with mono.Also braid is a lot more expensive even than even a quality mono .Hope this is of help

15lb suffix tritanium mono. Braid is ok for some applications, quality mono covers them all.

15lb suffix tritanium mono. Braid is ok for some applications, quality mono covers them all.

i use the same stuff myself, love it!

have to say i use braid exclusivley on my fixed spools. i find it really good for scratching out small fish.

I've been wondering about setting my flattie rod us with braid on the next line refill.
It's a fixed spool and doubles as the spinning rod when required, but what was pushing me to change this rod over is the thought that maybe the nearest breaking wave would pull the line down a lot less with braid.

Have recently put Sensas pro braid on my FS reel and have used it twice for beachcasting and once on a spinning rod off a rock mark.

Whether its my braid or situations but the "wind knots" are a constant bain, I am seriously thinking of binning it and switching back to mono

Warren

Try underfilling the spool there is no need to fill the spool to the brim with braid, found this out the hard way

Have recently put Sensas pro braid on my FS reel and have used it twice for beachcasting and once on a spinning rod off a rock mark.

Whether its my braid or situations but the "wind knots" are a constant bain, I am seriously thinking of binning it and switching back to mono

Warren