i use 4lb clear p-line. i have wanted to switch over to the hi-viz yellow. can the crappie see that hi-viz line? guess if you fish in stained water it would not matter.
Trying to keep us focused on fishing and maybe some of the information shared will help someone.
I use either 4 pound Sufix Elite in hi-vis yellow or 4 pound Gamma co-polymer in hi-vis orange for my spinning and long lining rods. The lines have good strength (especially the Gamma), low memory, and the hi-vis helps to see bites you cannot feel.
I use Ande 10 pound hi-vis yellow on my tite line rods. The leader below the weight is 6 pound clear BPS Excel. If I get the jig hung up, I can break the leader and only lose it and the jig. I get the weight back. The 6 pound line also doesn't tear up the brush I was hung on.
I used to use 8/1 and 10/2 PowerPro braid but it would slip through the line counters on my tite lining rods so I got away from it. The smaller diameter line did help keep the line vertical when tite lining. Have not gone back to it since I got the line counter reels because I have a lot of mono to use first.
Last edited by PanMan_VA; 01-19-2011 at 11:03 AM.
Keith
2008 NWR Bash Crappie Champion
2010 NWR Bash Yellow Perch Champion
2010 Buggs Bash Smallest Crappie Award
i use 4lb clear p-line. i have wanted to switch over to the hi-viz yellow. can the crappie see that hi-viz line? guess if you fish in stained water it would not matter.
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For my little bit of casting and jigging, I use Sufix Elite in hi-vis yellow. My telescopes are rigged with 30# run-of-the-mill line and 12# leaders. Corks stay pegged in place on the heavy line and the leaders are tough enough so I can usually pull free or bend free from the laydowns, beaver huts, BPs, and other structure I like to work. I've heard that visible and/or heavy line will spook the fish, but that wasn't a problem for about 8,000 of them over the past couple of years.
Fishing since '50!
Alright 4-10lb Hi Vis Vicous Panfish line, you couldnt pay me to use something different...Use it on my tightline rods and my 5' & 5.5 casting spinning UL's you can see every peck & nibble.... I buy em in 1/4 lb spools, 4# you get ALOT of UL spools (give or take 30 respools for $8) Just bought silver thread for a light rod spinning outfit i have, I really like it! I cant see the line hardly at all but the rod i use it on has a real soft tip, either use this rod for slipbobbers or three way rigs....used in conjuction with a 1 oz weight, I watch the rod tip not the line... or the bobber just depends on where the fish are.
Now for Greenie fishing I use Stren 10 Lb test either Hi Vis Yellow or blue/clear
Catfishing/Garfishing/Bowfinnin' during the 100* days of summer I use 20# Ande Hi Vis Green.
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2012 NWR Bash Yellow Perch Champion
2012 Buggs Bash Champion
I really like Stren Original 6-8lb, Been using clear blue, but like the idea of hiviz. I have used the hiviz before but it broke too easy. Need something hiviz and as strong as Stren with little memory.
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FEBRUARY 2011
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Longlining rods 6 # Mr Crappie Hi Vis
Spider Rig poles 8# Trilene
Nightstalking rods 6# trilene
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Mr crappie 4 lb camo or Trilene XL in 4lb or 6lb. Spec I got wrapped in some of that Hi Vis stuff diving once, never saw it till I was wrapped up and the water visibility was a good 10'.
4-6 lb Vicous panfish line hi-vis