Anyone use any superline on tip ups?

[wishing for walleyes]

Went and bought me 2 tip ups today.A frabill orange thermal tip up and a ht thermal orange tip up.I filled both of them with power pro 10# test line.I mainly fish walleyes.I used this line because of the small 2# diameter.Would love to hear comments and suggestions on what everyone likes.

[danwilliams]

Think you're gonna cut your fingers real real bad

[hanson]

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Think you're gonna cut your fingers real real bad

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Agreed!!!

You really want your tip-up line to have a good diameter to it, whether its mono or braided dacron. From there, you can always tie in a 3-4' length of leader material.

If you are fishing pike, you are going to cut your hands up with a superline when they go on runs. Not going to be fun for you.

[jwhjr]

I'd have to agree. I've cut my hand on it with far less force on it than a pike taking a run . I'd switch it up.

[mike morris]

Ouch.

[wishing for walleyes]

I was thinking i would just wear a pair of lite gloves,but forgot about the northerns and how they run.Looks like i will refill them with heavier line then a few feet of superline.Thanks for the responses

[MASON38]

I've got 65 lb Power Pro on my pike tip ups and 40 lb on my walleye spools/tip ups. Just wear the gloves you always use and just shuck one of them when the fish is near the hole, and played out. 65 lb equals 14 lb mono, and 40lb = 10 lb. For walleye I use a fc leader

[gill man]

I agree with most everyone. Unless you are using 65-80 pound tests more suited to musky fishing you will be suffering from cuts.

Unless you have some old 80 pound line sitting around, it wouldn't make much sense to spend $15-$25 dollars for a superline when you could just get heavy (25-40 lb test) tip up line for a few dollars. You will want a leader of some sort anyway, so the tip-up line doesn't really need to "perform" it just needs to be easy to handle.

gill man

[TurnUpTheFishing]

That small diameter will cut and possibly give you tangling problems which wont be fun with cold hands. Tipup line is a much more economical route.

[hanson]

Guess I wouldn't be afraid to run 50-80lb PowerPro on my tip-ups either but at $15-20 per 50 yard spool, I think I'll pass.

I can spool 4 tip-ups with the Western Filament Teflon Coated tip-up line for the cost of spooling one with Power Pro. It just makes economical sense and I really don't need the strength of 80lb superline through the ice. I need it for the diameter, not the strength.

[MASON38]

I can understand why some guys wouldnt want to spend the extra bucks to get Pwr Pro or some of the other superlines out there. But, if they are spending $15 or 20 dollars, its not for a 50 yard spool, for that money you are going right to the 150 yd spool size. Sure its more money, roughly what? 3 to 5 bucks more, when you consider you have to buy four separate spools of tip up line.

Then you could do at least three with the 150 yd spool, and possibly squeeze out filling four tip-up spools. I use my Daiwa LCA's (walleye trolling reels) to measure out the line for me.

You might not need 80 lb, but even the 65 lb I use is nice for keeping those critters out of the weedbeds, or if need be, pulling them out.

I think a lot of it is preference, compare to why I bought Thorne Bros rods @ $50, I could have gotten any old rod for $20. If the rods are that much better and I can get it made to my specs, I would rather spend the 50 bucks. If I can get that much more for my tip-up line, and only pay at the most $5 more, its not that hard of decision for me.

[Surface Tension]

One quality that a super braid offers, (less line stretch) isn't needed nor wanted on a tip-up. However if you need a heavier lb line over 14 lb then braids or dacron are nice for the fact that there is no line memory where as mono goes down the hole line a long coil spring.

I use 12-14 lb mono on my tip-ups for eyes and even lake trout and have never broke off. Its also very fishable meaning no coils and finicky eyes commit to it.

[Scott M]

I do!

But I also choose to do so since I generally have a lot of summer power pro left from musky and cat rods, promotional give aways, etc.

I haven't been cut before but that may be a consequence of how I bring them up.. I'm pretty anal-retentive about coiling up tip up line as I bring it in. Not only does this protect you against getting a knot when you reset it or preventing you from getting a loop around your feet or tip-up when the fish decides to go on a run, it also means you can let the fish run some.

I dunno, maybe it's just me but I've never had a problem with them cutting me up. Generally you're pulling up wet line anyways (cooling and lubrication factors) and these superlines have been reformulated to have a lower coefficient of friction so they don't burn out your guides, so I guess I just don't see the argument...Maybe I haven't had a fish powerful enough to do it to me yet or something?

I will sometimes put on a fluoro leader. Fluoro has less stretch than mono but I like the underwater invisibility for walleyes. If you set a hook like it's the 4H club county picnic and you're on the tug of war team the no-stretch properties of superlines will bite you in the butt. But knowing that a fish isn't going to break my superline is reassuring to me and a firm tug will usually do it for me on most fish. Fishing a quickstrike with a superline is what my buddy affectionately calls the "eff you" rig. Because if I get a fish hook-setted, there is no effin way its getting off. I like this property for my summer musky fishing and I like it for my tip ups.

Good luck with those new tip ups this winter...

[Steve Foss]

I use superbraids all the time on my pike tip-ups, but I'm talking the stuff like 50# Fireline, which is thick enough not to cut hands. On my walleye tip-ups, it's simple 12-lb limp mono like Trilene XT. In clear water I may add five feet of fluorocarbon with a blood knot. I agree with the others on that superthin superbraid. If hands are cold and wet (I almost always play a tip-up fish with my bare hands and then stick hands in pockets with handwarmers to warm them up), it doesn't take much cutting to get really unpleasant results.

[TrophyEyes]

I have been using 17# mono and a 6# mono or floro leader. I used a superline once and that was enough. I don't even like it on my jigging rods because I keep my finger on the line. I have gotten cut enough to know better.