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lundojam
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If I were forced to use braid, I would tie a nice long mono or flouro leader. That way when you are re-tying for the 100th time you'll have some line left. I prefer straight mono. Sometimes walleyes are very line shy, as most folks know, and very skittish and spooky. The clearer the water and the more heavily-pressured the fish are, the more this is the case. In turbid rivers and bog-stained lakes that don't get a lot of pressure, on the other hand, I'm not convinced it's an issue. Also, it depends on presentation. If you are bobber fishing, where the fish get a chance to examine the bait, it matters usually. If you are trolling a shad rap at 2.5 mph, for example, I don't think it'd matter; they don't have time.
Do this: Get on a nice pod of fish, and then try it both ways and let us know. Good luck!
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JD
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I always use a leader with braid unless throwing a frog, buzzbait, big Whopper Plopper, or flipping jig in vegetation. Line visibility doesn't matter much in those situations. Otherwise, I want to make sure my line is as invisible as possible. This is especially important with species that have good eyesight, like walleyes and trout. Tying leaders on the water takes up valuable fishing time so I get the inconvenience, but braid is so good for vertical jigging and many other presentations that I deal with it. I would suggest a 10lb leader. 8lb braid is pretty dang thin and I usually use 15lb as a minimum on spinning gear, but 8lb is still quite strong, way stronger than most 8lb mono or fluoro. Use your drag effectively (erring on the side of caution with a looser drag than you could get away with) and you should be fine.
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lyontyl
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I always have because I don't want the one thing between me and a trophy walleye being that they could see the line.
I have begun to find it a pain though to continually add a new leader when my line breaks so have found myself easing over to mono for my BWCA trips.
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lyontyl
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backwoodshunter: "Braid for walleye's really???? Ive been lucky to catch a few 30-31 inchers, my brother has a 32.5, all catch and release on 6 or 8lb test trik fish camo line, no leader or braid, non of that fluff is needed to target trophy walleyes or get them in the boat. "
I think it's a valid question. Most of us don't take up tons of rods with different setups into the BWCA so we have to take a couple rods that serve multiple purposes. drrick is a perfect example. You have a spinning rod with braid so you can deal with the toothy critters and such but why bring up another additional setup when you can just add a leader to your line and it now becomes a good walleye setup?
Yes, you could add a mono leader but at that point you might as well use a floro leader since it has better refractive properties for jigging and such so you can feel the bite.
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drrick
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With Spiderwire invisibraid 8 lb, would you use a flouro leader when targeting walleyes?
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backwoodshunter
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Braid for walleye's really???? Ive been lucky to catch a few 30-31 inchers, my brother has a 32.5, all catch and release on 6 or 8lb test trik fish camo line, no leader or braid, non of that fluff is needed to target trophy walleyes or get them in the boat.
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