your right the fireline would give you more sensetivity.  i would be careful on hooksets and fighting fish becasue i would think your leader would be more suseptible to breaking than with just straight flouro.

I use the exact setup you discussed - Fireline and Flourocarbon leader - works great!

They are two considerations when fishing with a braid/ fireline to leader combo.  One is do you want to tie the line directly with no swivel or do you want the swivel.  I can tell you from experience that having a swivel on can sometimes be a help to catching  fish and sometimes a hinderence.  Because the swivel will impart a totally different action to a bait .  Yes that's right, the swivel will impart action to the bait and no swivel will let the bait do something complete different.  So before you make a final judgement on which way to go.  Consider trying both and having both setup when your dropshotting.  Let the fish tell you what they want.  Just my .04 cents worth.

Mark

I'll go one step further after receiving my BRAND SPANKING NEW ORDELLO DROP SHOT ROD today.  In the past I used 10lb mono and 8lb flouro with a swivel.  I asked a few "CLUB PROS" their preferences and believe it or not I got mixed reviews also, but most tend to lean toward rigging everything straight to their main line and sticking with 6 or 8 lb flouro.

I'm going out on the limb and try both ways on the new CAJUN Line.  I really prefer the swivel method because if it gets hung up or breaks off usually I only loose the weight but if all goes, all I have to do is open a pre-made Gamakatsu D/S package, tie it on and away I go.  I know, it's lazy but fishing from the back and having limited rod availability makes it do-able for me.  I'll keep you informed how they work out.

Chuck Pigue

Like larry said, Straight up. I use 6 lbs. McCoy, its durable and is real strong for 6 lbs. line.

8lb Ande. Could pull up an anchor with that stuff....nuff said.

6lb P-Line flourocarbon I swear by it for dropshot fishing.  Almost completely invisible in the water, very sensitive,, not much stretch at all and tough, very tough.

I also use tungsten weights and a very sensitive rod, bites are almost like an electrical shock in their feel.

I like firelline for a lot of things but dropshot fishing is not one of them.

BillB