What is everyone's favorite multi-purpose line? I have been using 6lb fire line for the last few years, but am looking for a change. Heading in on June 24th and will be targeting mainly smallies with a few slick ricks and wandering walters.

I'm still using Triline or Stren monofilament. I know I should give the new powerlines a try, and my fishing friends tell me I should, but the mono has been just fine.

Yes, there is stretch to the mono and it probably costs me a fish now and then, but it also makes it easier to get out a snag.

Maybe next year.

I have always used Trilene XL with great success. Gonna go out and try some fireline today and see how that goes.

Still going with Fireline. We're usually rigged with mono snells for slip bobber fishing. Makes for a good combination of no stretch and a shock leader. Straight Fireline for topwater fishing for solid hookups on our Med light rods.

what color fireline do you like?

Started with original smoke and have now switched to crystal. Have not been able to tell if the fish have a preference. The crystal is more visible to me above the water.

Trilene xl

8# xl...for decades now.

Trilene xl 6lb and 8lb for walters, 10 lb for trolling

tony

I was having a hard time catching fish on one trip and we swaped out jigs poles ect and eventually found that it was the fireline that was costing me fish, I have since switched to 6 lb mono for jigging still using braids for crankbaits or spoons.

John800. any idea why the Fireline was costing you fish?

i would imagine it was a visibility issue.

Yeah, visibility. Maybe a flouro leader would have helped. Or the old standby, XL.

i tried braided, casts real nice, does not brake, does not untie,however, does not stretch, if you got a rock, you lost your lure. got a tree, your pulling her out of the ground. but i think trilene xl is great too, try it!!!

8 lb Trilene XL. I've tried others line in the past and always come back to Trilene.

Finished an 8 day fishing trip using Seaguar InvizX 8#. Used it as a full spool on the spinning rod and the last 8' after powerpro on the bait caster. I'm impressed with the quality and will be using it more often.

Gbusk and Kanoes, we never did figure it out for sure, so your guess is as good as mine. We were anchored in about 5-6 feet of water in fairly swift current using jigs and leeches below a set of rapids for smallmouth and an occasional walleye, one thing we did notice was that the walleyes were not as sensetive to the line as the smallies were, which seemed backwards to me, the novice fisherman that I am, but the guys I was with said they had seen that before, after they noticed I was using braided line. My buddy said that the other times he had seen it was in high wind or swift current and his thoery was that it was the way the jig and leech moved in the water, and he may be correct as strange as it sounds becuase when I switched to 10 mono and it was not much better than the braid, I only caught fish at the same rate they did after I switched to 6 lb xl that we stripped off one of their reels.

I've been using 8# P-line flourocarbon for the last 2 years. I like it. It cast great. The fish don't seem to mind it. Also much cheaper than Berkely Vanish transition, that I was sing before it. I do love Berkely transition but I can buy 3 spools of P-line to 1 of the Berkely.

I run berkely Big Game on my baitcaster. 12 or 15#. Can't quite remember which. Nice to have for chucking heavier lures for pike.

Adam