2 lb Test Line

[Crappie Buster]

2# line an EXTREME advantage ? Uh No.

To each his own, but I have seen days when 2lb line would catch fish when you couldn't get bit on 4lb. I have watched it happend from a boat away and I have been in the boat catching fish on 2 lb line when my partner struggled with 4 lb line. To test my theory I fished with the same brand and color of line in 4 lb test with the same jig and never got a bite after 20 minutes of fishing the same water. Picked the 2 lb test rod back up and within a few casts I was adding a fish to the livewell. If the fish are tightlipped and being hammered hard you can convince a few more to bite using lighter line. Lighter line also handles lighter jigs better and I use a lot of 1/64th oz jigs in the summertime.

It is no doubt more aggravating. You will break fish off and you have to dip every fish, but 2lb test has it's place on the water. Especially on a slow day when the fish have lock jaw. A 2 lb crappie and 2 lb line does equal Heartbreak Hotel in most cases haha

[Crappie Buster]

Thanks for all the input guys. I think I'm going to go with the P-line and may try some of the vicious too.

[crappielimits]

I love the Berkley Sensation! Though, I agree 4 pound plus for crappie fishing. I have heard before going to tourneys in NC, Virginia and even Ga Lanier that I was gonna need 2 pound! I have never seen the benefit versus fish lost. I would try a flouro line or at least leader before buying a bunch of 2. Just trying to help. Fish can not see a 4 pound flouro as good as 2 mono and probably a 6 would be fine.

[deathb4disco]

IMO, 2# is strong enough to land any crappie that swims. I don't lose fish with 2#. I just lose a lot more jigs with it. For that reason, I stick to 4# most of the time.

[big0slabz815]

I ice fish with 2# n ive snaped off on five fish on the hookset this year big fish can b landed on 2# just have a good drag n play em a lil longer n dont hook em like a bass but i would never put it on there for open water becuz im the type that likes to hook the crap out of em n hate losen a big one at the boat 4# is the smallest id go i manly use 6# 90% of the time

[genec]

Get a limber rod will help as much as anything

[split handle]

Thanks for all the input guys. I think I'm going to go with the P-line and may try some of the vicious too.

2 lb. P-Line CX X-Tra Tough is very strong and abrasion resistant for its diameter, but is also stiff--so much so that I had to add a second split shot to get it to go through a slip bobber. Its coils wouldn't straighten enough to go through the bobber's tube. I was fishing the line on an ultralight reel with a spool lip diameter of 35 mm. If you are going to try this line, I would recommend a reel with a wider spool.

I just bought a spool of 2 lb. Fireline in the flame green (actually a pale chartreuse) color. Its average diameter is a very thin .0031," and fresh out of the box it breaks at just over 5 lbs. Though the line is strong when fresh, I would not cast it anywhere near a dock piling or rough tree branch; I suspect that it will part with the slightest abrasion. I look forward to trying it in open water, but with an abrasion-resistant mono on another spool to switch to for fishing near cover.

I would expect 2 lb. Sensation to be the most versatile of the three lines you listed. It is about as strong for diameter as CXX, but limper. It is supposed to be abrasion resistant; I can't speak to that. CXX should be the most abrasion-resistant of the three, but any 2 lb. line is too fragile to be fished where it will be abraded by cover; the roughing-up it receives from fish teeth and gill plates is unavoidable and should be all it is deliberately exposed to. Consequently, the greater flexibility of Sensation would make it my choice over CXX. Sensation's ease in knot-tying compared to Fireline (very limp and wispy in 2 lb. test) and its likelihood of better resisting tooth abrasion would make Sensation preferable to Fireline if it were to be my only 2 lb. test line.

[plateboater]

2 lb I use is Triline XT. I also use 4lb Fireline and add fluoro leader about 2ft in 4lb test. Both set-ups work. With 2lb you need a good reel for drag system. Throw 1/32oz a lot on 2lb and do not lose many fish to line breaking.

[albiechaser]

5x tippet is the ticket,

[Crestliner08]

I agree, 2# test line has put the advantage in my favor at times. I've been using Trilene XL for many, many years and it has proven itself over & over again. I use it on a 7' B n' M SS for casting tiny jigs for both crappie, gills & trout. I tried Nanofil and that was a total disaster. Fireline is OK, but I've never really seen the advantage. I can cast just as far with XL as any of my many fishing partners. Remember this, line test has nothing to do with strength. It has everything to do with depth & speed control.