I fish 2500 series spinning reels a lot. Trying to find best all purpose line. Used Original Stren 8 lb most of last year. Used Vicious 6 lb panfish yellow this year. It's not bad. It did get pretty coily after couple months. I just spooled up some clear blue Vicious 8 lb. seems pretty good so far and just got some Yozuri soft 8 lb today. Tried some 10 lb Stren and it was awful. Coily and jumped off reel. Think I tried another brand of 10 lb and it didn't work either. Seems to me you can't go much heavier than 8 on 2500 class spinning gear without running into line management problems. I have braid on one rod but I hate tying a floro leader. What y'all like on spinning gear. I prefer at least 8 lb just in case you run into a big fish.

P Line. Best I've used. Trilene XL is good also.

I like the Trilene XL myself

I use braid on all my spinning set ups, except my small crappie rods. Make your leader 10 or 15 feet long so you don't have to keep retieing it. Zero line memory in braid.

Klay what knot you using to attach leader? I been using Alberto. But I struggle. Sometimes I tie it right sometimes I don't.

This is the easiest

Braid on all of mine. I tie the leader on with a fat alberto.

I like pline. Tried red seagar. Like pline better. Less memory. Casts smoother. My opinion.

Fireline
You can thank me later

That Alberto Knot looks pretty good actually. I'll add it to the knot thread up top

The alberto makes a very tiny knot.

Never tried the Alberto knot. I've always used that double uni. You can feel it when it passes through the guides, but it never has caused any problems with hanging up, and one of my rods is a micro guide.

I use 10# braid with a 6-10# Trilene 100% fluoro leader personally. The only reason I use the particular fluoro is because I get it in the little bitty spools on clearance at walmart from time to time and it hasnt given me any issues.

I use the Alberto knot to connect them.. The alberto knot does get big though if you use it on anything above about 12# test or so, which is when I resort to the double uni.
Both are great knots.

I only use braid on all my spinning reels and I tie an uni to uni for leader of choice. I like the suffix braid. 8 somethin. The casting is effortless and memory is nonexistent. Uni knots are easy to tie. Best of all worlds.

I spooled up the Yozuri Soft in 8 lb. I'm not going to like it. It's coily. Probably put it back on the spool and maybe use it for leaders. I've wasted some money in this little first hand line experiment I got going. About to say to heck with it and spool up with braid and leaders like y'all.

Off topic here, but I met Alberto a few years back and was able to pick his brain over a yr or so while we worked with the same client. You will be VERY hard pressed to find a more knowledgeable "big" fish expert than he is. He has the big fish/moon correlation down to a science.
Great guy on top of that.

That's very cool. I believe the videos I saw he was big time striper fisherman.

I was always a braid (or Fireline) guy on spinning reels until I got my ass handed to me up on the James River several years ago. I took that pretty personally (knew you'd like that Beadlescomb). We were using the same worm, same hook, same weight. Yet he was getting like 15 bites to my 1 bite. I was like "WTF!!!!???"

Turns out he was using 6lb Trilene Fluoro. I was using 10lb and 15lb braid with a 10lb Vicious Fluoro leader. There is absolutely positively zero way that those fish in that black water were seeing the braid (not to mention the 10ft Fluoro leader should have negated that possibility in the first place)...that lighter fluoro line must have allowed the worm to move differently.

Not one to fix what ain't broken, I promptly started including at least one spinning setup with 6lb Trilene Fluoro. Now, I was just as skeptical as yall would be about putting 6lb test on any damn thing, especially not in a tournament situation. BUT if that 6lb test was the sole reason that I was getting the bites to begin with..then I would just have to live with it. And I did.

Would also like to add that Trilene 100% Fluoro is perhaps the strongest Fluoro of that strength that I've ever used (Sunline is a close second). I can remember one instance in particular up in SC that I had a 3lber wrapped around 2 wooden dock posts in the final minutes of a tournament. I didn't think that I had a Popsicle's chance in hell of getting that fish in the boat...but the line did it's job and held.

Just my opinion and experience. Hope it helps.

I got some 6 lb vicious on 2 of mine. I kinda went nuts on spinning setups when I got the boat last year.
Got a light, medium extra fast, 2 kinda stiff mediums, a medium heavy, and a heavy.

I actually primarily used Vicious Fluoro on everything back when I fished. Started out with it on some spinning reels; had too much memory. The Trilene didn't have near the memory that Vicious did (at least in the lower pound line variants).