Careful spooling up with braid if it's very cold out when you fish. If you don't use a mono backing the spool will shrink when it gets cold and spin inside the coil of line, slipping and not reeling the line up. Use a 20' length of mono on the spool and then splice it to your braid with a Uni knot and fill your spool as usual.
I've made this mistake twice and discovered it when I got to the fishing hole and the ambient temp was around 10. Handle crankee, line no spinee. Really sucks when you've got a 22" rainbow on the other end!
