LITTLE ROCK, Ar (AGFC) - While looking around for a spool of monofilament line to load on to a reel or two, an Arkansas fisherman may think back to earlier times. Before we had monofilament, one of ...

The FG knot, used to attach braided line to a monofilament leader, is incredibly thin. (Photo by Todd Masson, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) (Todd Masson) Fishing this week has been an impossibility ...

Braid is also much stronger than monofilament, so the line diameter is substantially smaller. Berkley makes it all the way up to 200-pound-test, and that line has the thickness equivalent of ...

I’m not sure who needs to hear this but I’m almost certain, on balance braided line outperforms monofilament line. The key phrase in this sentence, however, is “on balance,” because in certain ...