braided line

[filetandrelease]

  This helps some , can apply to guides and line

[Seamonkey84]

Most of my fishing is in 30ft or less, so I use fireline more as a backing, with 20-30ft of 6lb floro as the working line/leader. That way it’s just floro in the water and it doesn’t ice up nearly as bad. I just want to find some of this dura/super cast to try on my lake trout setups, since I rarely set up my shack to fish in.

[SLAYERFISH]

I was throwing Nano on 1 rod and Mono on the other yesterday. 15-23 F. Wind at 20 mph. The nano was much less stressed by the cold temps than the mono. I thought it woulda been the opposite!




Heres what they eating:

[7lazy77]

I prefer braid on all my spinning reels.  I will fight the icing up over the memory in other lines.  Not many days is it cold enough to make much of a difference anyways.

[xiaolu]

I ice fish mostly at over 100 feet deep water for lake trout (laker) and lake whitefish (whitey), so yes I only use braided line, which helps with setting hook quickly:-)

[Tepuilover]

I've used braided line during the summer/fall only when fishing for big salmon. I have one rod/reel that I plan on loading it with braided line. One thing I hate is that it can cut you good if you are not careful.

[buz23]

I like nanofil for a while, but after pulling ice beads off it degradation sets in.  It frays, and then breaks when you hook that laker when you're fishing for perch.  I've had it happen a couple of times.

[SALMONEMIA]

The added sensitivity, strength, no line twist and reduced diameter are all desirable braided line attributes.

I personally don't need that added sensitivity for the waters and fish I go after.
And although I do like the line twist alleviation, I do not have confidence in my blood knot tying so I will not use braided line either as a leader or attached to a backing.

I love mono, because the shock absorption and stretch are critical for me. I do not like line twist though so I'm always conscious of that.

Try an alberto knot its easy and way better than a blood knot imo

[gearheart]

I don’t know if it’s brand specific but the fire line that i use on 2 of my reels shows up on my Vexilar and pollutes the image. I think it’s air bubbles trapped in the line. I prefer limp mono.

[SLAYERFISH]

I like nanofil for a while, but after pulling ice beads off it degradation sets in.  It frays, and then breaks when you hook that laker when you're fishing for perch.  I've had it happen a couple of times.

This exactly!  But I still use it.

[SLAYERFISH]

I don’t know if it’s brand specific but the fire line that i use on 2 of my reels shows up on my Vexilar and pollutes the image. I think it’s air bubbles trapped in the line. I prefer limp mono.

 Maybe its flasher brand specific . My Marcum has no problem with Nano.

[esox_xtm]

I like nanofil for a while, but after pulling ice beads off it degradation sets in.  It frays, and then breaks when you hook that laker when you're fishing for perch.  I've had it happen a couple of times.

If you're not in such a rush holding it your hand for a few seconds melts the ice enough to let it slide without shredding.

I don’t know if it’s brand specific but the fire line that i use on 2 of my reels shows up on my Vexilar and pollutes the image. I think it’s air bubbles trapped in the line. I prefer limp mono.

I've seen that with a number of superlines. Braids tend to be worse than fused but it generally goes away in just a bit. It is kinda weird though, like what got dumped in the hole?

[Seamonkey84]

Fireline shows up on panoptix too, kinda handy for lining up sonar to see you lure when casting.

[slipperybob]

Yes, the air bubbles on the line will show up on sonar.  Amazing how that works but at times, trying to get just the lure to show is a pain.  Even mono and fluoro will show if there is  air bubbles on the line or gain is set high to pick up all that clutter.