Author Topic: Tip Up Line  (Read 804 times)

Offline Fish On69

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Tip Up Line
« on: Feb 07, 2011, 01:19 PM »
I was just wondering what pound fishing line everyone uses for their tipups. I had a pickeral break me off this weekend during a derby so I was just curious. I'm mostly interested in tipups for pickeral, bass, crappie and perch. I use either 4-6lb line for my leader because I did not want to scare away any finicky perch and crappie. However, I do not want to be breaking off a lot of pickeral.
Any advice for these species as well as other would be very useful...
Thanks,
Dave :tipup:

Offline eiderz

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Re: Tip Up Line
« Reply #1 on: Feb 08, 2011, 07:13 PM »
Well, you may have your lines crossed here, so to speak. Any of the the stink log types have the teeth to break a mono/fluoro leader of as much as 10 lbs, perhaps more, but the bass, perch and crappies can be caught on light leaders, 4-6 pound is probably a good choice for them. You need to match the leader to the target fish, the toothy guys will bust off without steel leaders or relatively heavy mono/fluoro leaders.

Offline paul23

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Re: Tip Up Line
« Reply #2 on: Feb 08, 2011, 07:20 PM »
I lost 3 hooks using 6lb test n my buddy also had 3 breakoffs on fresh 10 fireline.  Its gonna happen.

 



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