Ice line in summer?

[TurnUpTheFishing]

Hey guys, anyone use ice line in the summer? I switch one of my ice reels over to open water and was wondering if their is any reason for me to waste perfectly good line?

[Bobb-o]

I never use ice line, just regular summer line, but i change my line on all my reels at the beginning of spring and right before ice. it's pretty cheap, even cheaper than buying the line yourself, to go into someplace like gander mountain and have them spool the reel for you, gander charges 2 cents a yard for mono under 10. i dont know what the prices are for others

[TurnUpTheFishing]

Yeah I know its easy to spool up but I paid about $5 for this P-line and its practicly new, plus Im a poor (and lazy?) college kid.

[harvey lee]

I have a reel on all my summer and ice rods so that isnt a problem.I would go ahead and try it.At times I have used the same line on my panfish rods for winter and summer rods.

Its nice to change line all the time,but costs.All my reels,summer or winter have new line put on every year.I do believe that my pannie rods all have P-line on them.

[DEADhead]

the only problem I see with that is some ice lines are designed for cold water, such that the line stays limp in cold water. Under warmer water conditions the line may act funny. I don't know from experience, but if I were to use my winter lines for summer, I probably wouldn't notice much difference since I mainly fish for coldwater fish, i.e. trout!

[slick814]

GUess it depends on what kind of line you've got. With the P-Line, I'd say you should be fine using it in summer as well as winter, just like a braid, which I don't change unless it gets faded really badly.

Biggest reason? it gets too expensive, and for the most part doesn't lose strength until it's been used quite a bit.

With a really light mono like 2 lb. or something, I'd switch lines, but if you've got 4 or 6 on your rell, you should be fine with it. I use the same line year round on my pannie reel, since it goes from a summer rod to an ice rod. Just check it for nick & abrasions that might give it a weak spot, eliminate those, and you should be perfectly ok.

[Deitz Dittrich]

If your not fishing a tournament and dont mind loosing a lure or 2 or a big fish.. Give it a shot, worst thing that could happen is you could loose a few lures and or a fish....

[TurnUpTheFishing]

Sounds like Ill give it a shot, its 4lb. floroice. I wasnt sure if winter line was made less abrassion resistant than the open water lines.

[Tony Boshold]

I will use it all year long but I go thru line alot.

I fish at least weekly and at times I have changed my line monthly and as often as before every tourney. I picked up the P-line cxx extra strong moss green in bulk spools of 3000 yds in 2# and 4#. They ran me about $45 each. Considering a 300 yd spool runs about $6-$8 thats a great price and I can spool up when I need to rather than when its too late. I do run a backer of some old line and switch out maybe half or a third of the spool with fresh line. That cuts down my usage and saves big time. I'll usually try to have about at least 30 yds of fresh line from the backing depending on what type of fishing I'm doing.

The more you fish the more damage to the line and more line you'll use up.

Now super lines can last a really long time and a whole other story.

My open water rods have not been restrung and the one I have used recently has line from last september that was hardly used and it is pretty rotten. It was 8# XL clear.

I will go thru a lot of that four # line I have on the open water this season I'm sure. I use it for the eyes here when the water gets low and they want a very natural presentation.

Not too mention we bring our flashers and ice rods on the open water in the boat and off docks and walls for some great fun. Got to keep the ice Mojo working and in tune. Also a great time to field test the latest panfish baits.

[DEADhead]

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its 4lb. floroice

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I use that line a lot in the summer, but I use it as a tippet/leader, and like I mentioned before I use it for trout (coldwater). I have had no problems with it being too stiff or breaking.

Good Luck!

[TurnUpTheFishing]

Thanks for the heads up.