Floro, Mono or Braid?????

[Pike_Preacher]

This is my first ever Post on this HSOforum....just found it the other day and I love it so far....

What line do you use and why??? I am talking for pan fish in shallow and deep water an all around line to be used outside hoping hole to hole so freezing up is a big thing I do not like....every year I use something different and every fall I try to think ok which did the best out in the ellemnts....I fish out of a portable but when the fishing is slow I like to get mobil and try to find the fish and I HATE frozen line....Thank you in advance for all replies..

GREG

Pike Preacher

[slipperybob]

Treat a little candle wax to your guides and it really helps to reduce ice up. I sometimes do the same to the line. I prefer a mono line (copolymer) for dealing with ice up. I like using Fireline on most of my rigs; some tied direct to lure others have a leader.

[Steve Foss]

Hey Pike Preacher:

Welcome to FM. Great to have you here.

I just always use mono, often with a fluoro leader if the water's clear. Don't spool pure fluoro on reels because it feels too stiff for me. Don't spool braids because they are great inside a heated shelter but freeze up outside, and I never know from day to day whether I'll be hole hopping or in a shelter.

I use a limp mono like Trilene XL or equivalent. The abrasion resistant lines have too much memory, which is intensified in the cold. That my perspective, anyway.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Greg-PP-

Great to have you with us, welcome to IceLeaders/FishingMinnesota/HotSpotOutdoors.

I tend to choose my line depending on what I am fishing. If I am fishing a very small sunfish lure, I often times will use 2lb Floro. The fact that Floro sinks helps get the lure to the fish faster. on heavier lures I go with Copoly, its limper and I have better feel with it. 2lb or 3lb(gamma)... for swimming lures like a Nills Jigging shad, I go with braid, as the smaller diam helps the lure swim out further and have better action.

So... D) all of the above.

[fishcast]

From what I've seen so far mono and braid will both freeze up, but I think braid freezes up a descent amount more (I have only used fireline micro ice never tried power pro ice)

I personally almost always use trilene micro ice 2 or 3lb pound when fishing gills and crappies (also have never tried a copolymer), the only times I think about reaching for braid when fishing panfish is deep water like 20 something or more.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Fishcast- I would be willing to bet that Tri- Micro ice is a copoly.

Almost all lines that are like a monofilament are coply, To be a copoly it just has to have some "other" substance other than monofiliment.