Line Preferece?

[roosterfish]

what is everyone using? perch? walleye? I am an old school mono guy thinking about changing to braid with flouro leader but have heard a couple nightmares about flourocarbon as well. Thanks

 

[Kickemup]

I like braid with a mono or flouro leader. I haven't had any problems.

 

[Sum1]

Are we talking ice fishing?

 

[all4eyes]

Really starti g to like the suffix 832 ice with a mono leader. Summer still going with power pro.

 

[roosterfish]

ice fishing yes.

 

[Migrator Man]

Power pro ice tec is my go to. It is nice when fishing outside and you need to clear your line of ice. Rigged one of my rods with suffix 832 so we will see how that works in comparison

 

[Kentucky Windage]

Mono. 4 lb for jigging, 4 & 6 lb for dead sticks

 

[Sum1]

Ice fishing strictly mono. Braid and floro are a pain in the kester below freezing.

 

[bowcarp]

I keep it simple 6# trilene xl

 

[MuleyMadness]

I have both. Berkley micro ice and I also have quite a few rods with Fireline Crystal on them. I always put around a 20 inch mono leader on the fireline. Both seem to work fine.

 

[gone_fishing]

Mono. 4 lb for jigging, 4 & 6 lb for dead sticks

 

[luvcatchingbass]

Most of my rods have Flouro all the way 3-5lb gills to walleye rods. The couple that have Northland on them I think is actually mono with a coating on them and seems to have less memory. I will say on the flouro rods put a the smallest SPRO swivel to a leader to help with any line twists an memory problems from the spool

 

[ShootnBlanks]

Yeah all my panfish rods are 4lb mono and walleye are fireline or some sort of braid

 

[revolutionz]

I just use straight braid Suffix 832. Tried power pro and one of the other braids, but liked 832 the best. I rarely fish outside of my flipover so freezing isn't an issue for me.

 

[BRK]

I'm looking at converting all of mine to braid over the new year as well. Probably Suffix 832. I'm with revolutionz, I rarely fish outside when it's really cold, and if I do leap frogging; outside hole to house to different hole and back to house. I'll use a fluoro leader on all my rods being they won't run up into the spool anyways.

 

[Holmsvc]

4-6lb mono on the bobber rods
10 lb Suffix braid on walleye rods with fluorocarbon leader
couple rods for just perch with 4lb mono

 

[Bfishn]

I’m about ready to ditch all braid on my ice rods other than maybe one or two rods I only use in the shack. Even last weekend in beautiful weather my fireline was icing up a bit. Maybe I need to grab some suffix and give that a try as a last resort.

A guy puts braid on the expensive rods to take advantage of the sensitivity and then I end up putting them down for my scheels rods with mono half the time because of the braid freeze.