So I have owned a baitcaster around a year now right now I have te Abu Garcia SMAX2-L, I've never really had to hard of a problem casting it but would still end up with some pretty gnarly rats nests atleast once a day and then I started to get better the rats nests would get less and less "bad". This season I recently switched to braided line and I put 15lb spider wire on it, the past 2 weeks it has worked great and I think I only had 1 or 2 minor rats nests in 6 outings. The last 2 times I went fishing I've had a bad problem with rats nests occurring right when I cast and my line snapping and my lure flying into the lake
It happened 2 times the other day and 3 times today!! It sucks losing lures that way and 2 of the ones I lost were in my top favorite ones, I thought this would be the least of my worries using braid but I guess 15lb test isn't strong enough. Im not exactly sure why the rats nests have been occurring recently but they didn't at all the last 2 weeks, maybe I've just gotten over confident in my casting abilities, or is there something common that can happen with braid that will make rats nest reoccur so easily? Am I better off going up to 20 maybe 30 lb test? I have 50lb spider wider on me but I feel like that would be a little too heavy for your everyday bass fishing, any opinions would be greatly appreciated im sick of throwing my god dam lures into the lake>