Braided line for finesse fishing

Recently i had read an article about aaron martens. in it he described a growing trend of the top pros and elites to use braid for nearly all of their finesse fishing techniques. i remember the days when spectra first came out and we all had it on nearly every reel as it was the "THING" to have. eventually the cons and price  won out and it faded away. well it came back strong for a lot of specialized techniques and i have to agree that it does have a place on a few reels just for certain techniques. heavy cover,flipping and pitching, anything that requires horsing a fish out of something, but finesse????!!! well after reading the article i was sold on the idea and decided to spool up one of my extra spools with braid and try it for myself. after all summer is coming up and shaky head and drop shooting will be in full swing, and as crowded as our lake has gotten recently I'm sure finesse will be the way to go slot of the time. so here is how martins instructed the setup of the line. he said to use 10 lb braid, not alb not 12 lb, but 10lb. according to hime it was the best diameter all around for keeping enough strength and manageability  to make it work on a spinning reel. use a leader of 6lb or 8lb fluorocarbon keep the leader the length of the rod tip to reel. i ran mine about 5 ft or so. use  a rod with a quick tip and a fast action to absorb the shock of the hook set .reel wasn't as important but a faster ratio he liked better than a slower one. so i went out and bought some power pro braid 10lb, it was the only braid i could find in 10lb on such short notice, i have never used it before and wasn't sure how it would perform. actually i have been pleasantly surprised with it. i thought it was a junky line but its on par with fireline or spiderwire. i think i got a 150yrd spool for around 20$, not a bargain but it was wal mart in hawaii after all so there is always a big mark up. again it performed very well on the spinning reel , i was quite happy with it. the 150 yards seemed to be just the right amount to fit the spool of my pflueger president reel, i didn't have to put any backing to fill it out and it was close enough to seem like it wouldn't  affect the casting ability of the reel. i added a 8lb leader of berkley vanish flouro at about the length described above. and tied them together with an albright knot. the knot may not be the best for this application however as it was very tough to tie with the small diameters of the line involved. it took several tries to get one to take that didn't  fray the flouro or actually just cut it in half with the braid. perhaps next time a couple of uni knots might work better. something i will have to try i guess as i work to improve the rig. the first outing with the new setup i was having a very very tough day and by days end had decided to throw a shaky head on it. i worked down a bank that actually i had seen several other boats hit and one even parked there for some time before i got to try my luck on it. i knew they were fishing it all wrong and was confident i could get one on the shaky head there. i was right! second cast got plowed by a nice 1.5lb bass. quickly got 2 more in short order all along the same stretch of bank maybe 20ft apart or so. the first thing you notice it that the braid does cast extremely well of the spinning reel and the albright knot dosent effect the line coming out of the tip to much.the wind is much less a factor with braid on the spinning reel as well, a bait caster often cross hatches on the retrieve causing overlaps of line or backlashes as the lighter braid catches in the wind. i experienced neither with the spinning outfit. the flouro leader and braid really transmit the feel of the bottom and its easy to become overwhelmed at every little tick. but the actual bites i got were so well felt that there was never any guess as to when it was a fish and when it was something else. the second time i fished this rig also proved fruitful, same feeling same kind of success with it. however i did loose several shaky heads to  various underwater obstacles. several the flouro gave and a couple broke at the knot. again i may have to find a knot that dosent stress the flouro out so much. the one problem i do see with this is drop shooting . it would be a lot of re-tying to switch to a drop shot  or to repelce one. it bad enough when its all flouro line but at least your just tying a few easy polamar knots and done. event tried wacky rigging or anything else but the shaky head but I'm already sold on the whole braid for finesse idea, i really can't believe i never tried it before back in the day when it was on most of my reels.