with muskie lures running 15-20 bucks a pop there would be no way id run them on anything but heavy braid. jigs and plastics are cheap, so losing them is no big deal, but any hardbaits i run are on braid.

its interesting that you mentioned powerpro. i tried a spool of that stuff this spring and didnt really like it at all. it broke way to easily for seemingly no reason. i went back to fireline, but crystal this time, 20#, and had decent success. this years quetico trip july 6-11th, i ran only crystal. it wasnt by design. my brother broke his pole, so he used my spare, spooled with 14# smoke fireline. (i brought 2 baitcasters this year just for giggles). trolling similar lures, similar depths, the lines performed pretty close to identical. the only difference really was whatever line was in the front of the canoe outfished the back line. no idea why really because we let out different amounts of line each time, so there wasnt a consistent front rod/front lure pattern.