What Ice line are you using and How do you fish it.

[Da_Roc]

Hi Gang!
   What brand ice line do you guys use? 
   What pound test do u like?
   What kind of fish do u use it on?
    Do you tight line ect..  What is your style of ice fishing?
    How does your ice line perform does it curl or have memory?
     Do you guys use special leaders and have a main line /leader combo?
 

    I would really like specifics cause I want to learn from the best and I consider you guys inovative and really experienced.  The only way you learn in this sport is hard knocks (FREEZING) and buy asking the ones before you who been there done that.
  Lets make this the best thread ever on ice line!!!  Rock & Roll help teach the newbie's.
Da-Roc

[fishuhalik]

I love micro ice in 3lb for pans.  same line in 6 or 8 for eyes.  fireline for tipups on pike

[baboiler]

  I seem to change brands each year but I always use 2 or 3 lbs test.
Boiler Up!

[Rotney72]

I Use The Lightest Line I Can Find..I Tie A Jig On Then Drop It Down The Hole

[asphalt_kid]

TOP SECRET 
I aint tellin


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[marmooskapaul]

Have used 2lb Trilene xl clear for years. Tried trilene's cold weather line and gold stren, but I'll stick with clear xl. When the line has too much memory or my jigs start spinning too much from line twist I just pull off about 30 feet and am good to go for a while. Good luck, Paul   p.s. fish for panfish, but have caught bass up to 5 lb on it thru the ice.

[jigginstick]

I always use Pole-Cat in 1# test for panfish. If you use the right action pole and retie a couple times a day no trouble with break offs.

[Greg2ha]

Brand usually Trilene # , usually 1or 2.
Greg

[crappie66]

Do you guys really notice much of a difference in catch when using the 1 or 2 lb test versuses the 3 lb test.  I usually use 2 lb test but for some reason I used 3 lb test last year, I am not sure why I did it, I must have done it by accident and only now noticed it when getting line out to respool my reels.  The 1 lb test kind of makes me paranoid to try.

[icejunky]

I like to try different kinds of line, usually 2 or 3 brands a season. Depending on my success. Last year I used That Blue Trilene crap and fireline. the Fireline was a hit, so i have kept it on my primary pole but I have strung up my 2 new rods with PowerPro Ice. nothing like braid...the power of 8lb with the thickness of 2lb.

I may take a look at the cajun red line this season and Im still looking for a solid tip-up line.

[ChapstickCharlie]

One critical thing for me is that 4lb test does not go thru my eyelets very well and also doesn't pass through slip bobbers near as well as 3 lb. And I am hooked on the hi - vis yellow, course I am half blind. Someone let me know where I can find the yellow stuff in 3 lb, sometimes difficult.

[jlc_hunter]

I use the trilene ice, I think they are coming out with some type fireline that is for the ice...but I will wait and see. I may even start using flourocarbon if I can get it for the ice it does make a difference in open water

jlc

[iceonly]

I used the fireline up at devils lake on perch rods because of the need for a low stretch line while fishing at 40 feet. Devil's lake is dirty water , so the fish seeing the line was not an issue. Tying jigs on can be a b***h. The only knot I found that didn't slip was the Palomar, and that's tough to tie sometimes on tiny jigs with frozen fingers. I tried fishing it around here, but my other poles out produced it. So I tried tying a leader of flourcarbon, that is a tough nut to crack.  A bloodknot will work , but it might take several tries before you get one that won't slip. At the end, I decided it wasn't worth the hassle.

[FishDaddy09]

#2 sten gold!

[Pat]

Just your eveyday run of the mill "fireline"

I fish mainly in a shack so I don't have the problems of ice build up at some people experience