The fish that you are chasing with 30lb braid dont need a big 3-4oz plug or spoon, in fact the 2 oz will have a much better action and cadence and will get more commitment from chases. Fish 20lb and fish a 1.5oz for calmer days and a splashy or well casting 2oz for windier days.. The fish that you might pick up on a 3-4 oz plug will quickly humble you on 30lb braid. Other fish like leerie even a big 15kg one, even in the thick bricks and shallow water, is just as easy to land on 20lb as 30lb as you let them swim around and run as they like because they fight cleanly unless you put heavy pressure on them. The other stuff that might pick you up on a big splashy 4oz plug, will have you in the bricks and your 30lb braid knitted up before you have your rod in the rodbucket. Multiplier sits above your rod so you can just spin with your rod in your rod bucket, what a revelation it is to not have to hold the weight of your rod for hours while spinning! When a proper fish swallows your plug, your rod bends, you wind him tight and bang you're on and just lift and make sure those hooks are set..no faffing about drags or faffing your rod into place or anything. You will figure it out once you've hooked a few beasts that the grinder setup is suited for light plugging and ja maybe tuna popping but not 3-4 oz sloggin away for big fish from the rocks.
That's the truth, I'll be scolded by my mentors for giving too much of it away!
It is not that I like the multipliers, which I love in fact overwinds and all, its that they are the right tools for the job. I used to be the biggest grinder fan because it allowed me access into the game without the required skill, but then I quickly learned that both were costing me too many fish. If you are throwing braid thick enough and plugs heavy enough to be cutting you up, and your drag is tight and line on the pad of finger tip, then actually one is using the wrong gear for the job and is not aware of it fully yet. There are reasons the guys at the pinnacle of the game use the gear they do.
I got 2 fish last week on 3-4 oz plugs that were approaching 30lb, and on 80llb braid I doubt they would have been landed where they were, in the conditions that they were in, nevermind 30lb dental floss. I lost 14 or 15 big fish over 20lb in a row one time over two seasons..that is braid for you, braid can be heart breaking when you start chasing big fish on plug on rocky headlands. Just warning you LOL..0.55 mono you can depend on, multipliers allow you to cast that, and your body and back feel a lot better for the different fishing ergonomics at the end of the day and your freezer is much happier for it too. I can MMMMUUUUUUCCCCCH easier land a hard fighting fish in the bricks on 0.55 high abrasion mono which is 45lb than I can land the same fish on 80lb braid, now whats going on there?! I can stop the fish easier and lock a fish down and pull as hard as I can without parting the line where I have parted the 80lb a few times pulling as hard as I can with freshly spooled high quality saltiga line..I have lost very few big fish on the mono while on the braid I lost most of the big fish. R120 a 600m spool verse nearly a grand now..you guys can keep the braid and enjoy your cut fingers! haha
