Wondering what the favorite line Of BWCA fishermen is.
Pound test
Mono -braided
Brand.

6lb Berkley Triline XL

20# suffix 832 or power pro slick

quote zski: "20# suffix 832 or power pro slick"

What color? Is that pro slick 8?

quote DeanL: "6lb Berkley Triline XL"

Do you use clear ?

Tectan Mono Low-Vis Green 8.2 lb test/ .20mm

Great line give it a whirl. That's all I use. Very thin,strong,limp,great to use with
spinning reels.

quote jrcrrr: "
Tectan Mono Low-Vis Green 8.2 lb test/ .20mm


Great line give it a whirl. That's all I use. Very thin,strong,limp,great to use with
spinning reels. "

I've always Used plain mono. Just looking for ideas on what to try next

I've seen this question a few times on this board. 8 and 10 pound clear Trilene XL. Never had any problem using these up north.

8# Trilene xl clear.

Yep, 6 and 8 pound trilene XL clear. Usually rig up one reel with 12 pound of the same for Northerns also.

quote CedricB: "

quote DeanL: "6lb Berkley Triline XL"

Do you use clear ?"

Yep. There are obviously situations where you need some heavy stuff but for most fishing this is what I like.

quote CedricB: "

quote zski: "20# suffix 832 or power pro slick"

What color? Is that pro slick 8?"

Both Suffix and Power Pro (green)
for decades before these i used 6# & 8# Trilene XL Low Vis Green
pretty sure power pro is made in usa....that's a plus

Triline XL 8# low visit green.

Stren Magna Thinn (mono) 6lb Walleye Green

^^^ #6 magnathin clear for brookies- #8 magnathin clear walleyes....in gin clear waters. but it does depends on what your targeting ?

8 pound and 4 pound Trilene XL clear.

I use six-pound, clear Trilene XL too. The fish below was landed with it and I've landed others its size with it. I don't intentionally set out to catch big pike with six-pound line. They simply hit my lures while fishing for bass. As I've said in the past, it's easier to land a big pike than a small pike with six-pound test and no leader because, for whatever reason, the big ones don't cut line like the little ones do. I lose a lot of lures to little pike. Because I fish barbless, I find at least half of them again because the pike can throw the lure while I'm still there and I see them bobbing on the surface.

I know the question has been raised in the past, but I appreciate it being raised again because I too wonder if I'm fishing with yesterday's technology. I did try fluorocarbon one summer and didn't like its stiffness and the way a knot would untie itself.

I do use 20-pound green Power Pro for muskies. I know most musky fishers use much heavier line, but I'm fishing for small muskies in small lakes. A 40-incher would be a big one where I fish, whereas a 40-incher on LOTW is a small one. I could probably catch them on six-pound mono, but a 40-inch musky is a friskier critter than a 40-inch pike.

8 lb Trilene XL low vis green

I'm just going to post here so that I can follow this thread. I'm kind of all over the map on fishing line from braided to monofilament in weights from 6lbs to 30lbs. I always like to read about what others choose and why to influence my thinking/approach. Thanks for this thread!

I would tell you 15-20# braid with floor tippet but all the mono loyalists would condem me so I won't. Suffix 832 is AWESOME line. I'll leave you'll with this, cast any lure in your box with 4# line with ZERO memory, ZERO stretch and 20# strength and get back to me. We use the Shaw Grigsby knot for floro to lure and double uni for braid to floro. Slick.

quote walllee: "Yep, 6 and 8 pound trilene XL clear. Usually rig up one reel with 12 pound of the same for Northerns also."

What Lee said. Always one reel with 12#. Jigging rod with (usually) 8#, but sometimes 6#.

Depends on the application. I generally have two rod/real combos one with 20-30lb braid for trolling or casting crankbaits and 8lb mono for plastics, live bait and any type of jigging with light tackle. I take 6lb floro to make 2 to 8 ft leaders. If I only took one setup it would be the braid with floro leaders.

8 lb Powerpro Green and 10 lb fluorocarbon leader... 3 feet. Casts a mile, supersensitive, and I catch fish and VERY rarely get cut off!

For the BW Fireline 10lb tracer. 3ft 25lb fluorocarbon leader if trolling.
At home I just use 10lb Fireline or Power Pro for everything. Add a 2-3 ft 6-10lb fluoro leader if rigging.

I have 30 lb Powerpro Braid with a 3 ft 50 lb flourocarbon leader on my Pike Rod. I make my own leaders with BB Swivels and I've used a variety of Flouro brands. My bass casting rod has 20 lb Powerpro with a 12 lb flourocarbon leader, and my walleye rod has 8 lb Stren Magnathin Monofilament. I also use that on my stream trout rod. My panfish rod has 6 lb Stren Magnathin. Magnathin is great line but does not have abbrasion resistence so I cut off nicked up line and change it often.

There are a lot of styles and qualities of Flourocarbon. Most Flourocarbon that was sold in the past is leader material and by nature stiff.

I'm in the business, so I need to make that disclaimer. You want to use a mainline Flourocarbon for your spinning reels. I use both Invizx and Abrazx, and yes I have a connection with Seaguar, but when it comes to my fishing trips I will still always use the best tools available even if I don't sell them.

My spinning reels are spooled with 10lb Abrazx and or Invizx the last 10 years, including many river trips that involve Muskies and several Woodland Caribou trips that involved dozen's and dozens of Esox.

I switched from 6 and 8lb mono, (mainly Trilene, and Fenwick line, back when they made it). I tried others but liked those best. The reason for my switch and the reason I like it so much better is:

1. Seaguar Abrazx and Invizx has virtually the same refractive quality as water so it's virtually invisible, so I can bump up the lb test a bit, and I figure anything over 10 is over kill even with a big Musky, Pike, or Lake Trout, because my canoe starts sliding at about 4 lbs of pull, which is about the best drag system I can use. (I know that if the canoe is sideways the physics are different).

2. Flouro is more dense than mono, meaning it gets down faster and is less likely to tear with a nick, it's almost like a ripstop material, and you know what happens to mono's break strength when you nick it...not good and I tend to fish around rocks, sticks and even worse bang my rods and line around on my canoe and boat, and I guarantee, there are more things on the edge of my canoe to nick my line than there should be.

3. The flouro's I use are made for spinning reels, (don't use flouro leader material for mainline), I can use them all summer and not have memory issues.

4. flouro doesn't break down from infrared light, it maintains it's integrity all year. (fluorocarbon was designed for home siding, industrial pipes etc, to keep them from breaking down when exposed to light.) Don't try that with your mono, although it rains a lot when I fish, I still have my reels on the deck exposed to a lot of infrared light and it never will break down like mono. I think this actually happens more in people's garage or on store shelves than people think. Remember that time your line just seemed to almost snap on its own without much effort...it probably broke down from being exposed to the light.

On my bait casters I tend to use braid, but I like an 8 strand or more than a 3 or 4 yarn braid. On my heavy Musky baitcasters or on some of my offshore baitcasters I like a 16 yarn braid, it's smooth, is less abrasive and lasts a lot longer and takes far more abuse.

Nomad

Trilene XL smoothcast, 6 and 8 lbs, green or clear. Occasionally 10 lbs of the same, but has to be a heavier lure or it affects the casting enough that I don't like it.

Hey great stuff Nomad, thanks for weighing in. What kind of knots do you like with the invizx and Abrazx? I played around in the store with the stuff and didn't like the knot strength I was getting. Perhaps I should take another look........??

Several years ago I took 4 spools of P-line floro into the Quetico. About 1/3 of the way through my trip (after about 18 hours of rain) I couldn't get ANY sort of knot to stick. Fortunately my buddy had a spool of 8lb green XT and saved my posterior. So I am a little gun shy about straight Floro..........on the other hand most of the guides and tournament fishermen that I know use it so it must work. Tis odd......several of them just use "Bass Pro" brand floro.......I wonder who actually makes it, certainly not Bass Pro shops.

FWIW I use Seagur quite a bit as leader material offshore salt water fishing. And this past summer in WCPP all my rods had very long (5 to 8') Seagur leaders........Power pro or 832 suffix connected via an FG knot........nice set up as the knot is super trim. Do you see any advantage going straight floro?

I never paid any attention to the number of strands in braid
(pesky details ;-)
I usually use power pro or 832...........Am I in the right ball park?

Alot of questions I know but I am a naturally curious sort and like being educated.

And lastly.......not sure what happened via the P-line floro. I use their regular mono with good success using their 30lb line for many years now and purchase 3K yards at a time.

While sorting the closet , I found some line that had been hidden in a plastic bag off odds and ends.
Suffix ProMix and BassPro Signature Series Mono.
Has anyone tried either of these?

10 lb Fireline with a 8 or 10 lb fluorocarbon leader. I love this for my spinning reels. I like the added sensitivity (no stretch) of the fire line and I like flourocarbon's lack of visibility, especially for clear BWCA lakes (aka Knife). I tie the Fireline and Flouro together with an alberto knot.

Dizzy check out the FG knot.......very slim and in fact will go all the way onto your spool if you want a really long leader.

FG knot

Fish on!!!

Spider wire stealth braid 10#, it has a flourocarbon coating that makes casting a dream and helps your line sink. Handles the walleyes you're targeting well and has the abrasion resistance to hold up in rocks. Sensitivity is unmatched compared to mono and is thin enough to feel the lightest bites even in current. Also helps with like bite offs over traditional mono or flouro

quote shock: "^^^ #6 magnathin clear for brookies- #8 magnathin clear walleyes....in gin clear waters. but it does depends on what your targeting ?"

+1

quote mastertangler: "Hey great stuff Nomad, thanks for weighing in. What kind of knots do you like with the invizx and Abrazx? I played around in the store with the stuff and didn't like the knot strength I was getting. Perhaps I should take another look........??

I typically use a uni-knot, I've been known to use an improved clinch/cinch knot, (standard fisherman's knot), and with heavier line and braid I'll use a Palomar knot.


Several years ago I took 4 spools of P-line floro into the Quetico. About 1/3 of the way through my trip (after about 18 hours of rain) I couldn't get ANY sort of knot to stick. Fortunately my buddy had a spool of 8lb green XT and saved my posterior. So I am a little gun shy about straight Floro,

I can't speak to the P-line, but can say that my use of Invizx and Abrazx I haven't had that issue, but I believe it to be the line make up, the Invizx and Abrazx have a suppleness built in for a spinning reel which also makes it softer for a knot to bite better and hold, unlike a hard shell line, common in leader type of flouro)

..........on the other hand most of the guides and tournament fishermen that I know use it so it must work. Tis odd......several of them just use "Bass Pro" brand floro.......I wonder who actually makes it, certainly not Bass Pro shops.

(Yes, they put it out to bid on a regular basis, so it could be a variety of manufacturers from year to year)


FWIW I use Seagur quite a bit as leader material offshore salt water fishing. And this past summer in WCPP all my rods had very long (5 to 8') Seagur leaders........Power pro or 832 suffix connected via an FG knot........nice set up as the knot is super trim. Do you see any advantage going straight floro?

I like the FG knot, but I'm not great at tying it yet in the field so if I prettied in my office I use it but if tied wrong it can be disastrous, (personal experience). I love a uni to uni knot from braid to flouro, yes it has a little more of a "speed bump" going over your first guide than an FG knot, but I know it's bullet proof and I've been using it for the last 15-20 years on my Musky set ups, 16 strand Thread Lock, in the old days, Power Pro or even Western Filiment to Seaguar Premier and when fishing down in Boca, (I love fishing wrecks off shore and AmberJack's on spinning gear) Then I use Smackdown, 8 strand with blue label Seaguar, similar to you with a rod length leader. When I'm canoe fishing with a spinning reel I like straight Flouro, it just feels and fishes better for me....that isn't scientific. With a baitcaster from the canoe I use braid to flouro leader.

I like a go to a spinning rod and reel that I can jig for walleyes, have line tough enough to handle a pike's teeth and a line tough enough to fish weeds or downed timber and the 10lb Abrazx has been my go to line for that. It is the first rod and reel set up I grab and is with me on any trip I take.


I never paid any attention to the number of strands in braid
(pesky details ;-)
I usually use power pro or 832...........Am I in the right ball park? Yeah that's a good line.


Alot of questions I know but I am a naturally curious sort and like being educated.

And lastly.......not sure what happened via the P-line floro. I use their regular mono with good success using their 30lb line for many years now and purchase 3K yards at a time. "

Now days it's hard to keep up with acquisitions and big vendor's going bankrupt causing small manufacturers financial challenges that make it hard to stay in business.

You can see we like to have a plethora of fishing gear on our trips.

Ha! A man after my own heart.........Except I usually have four or five guys carrying all my stuff, netting my fish, making me dinner, setting up my tent etc. so I can walk leisurely through the woods unencumbered. ..........Please don't wake me......

I like Sunline Super FC Sniper fluoro in 14# for my two baitcasters, the same line in 10# on one spinning reel, and I use Maxima Ultragreen mono in 8# on the other spinning reel. Yes...4 rods/reels...call me crazy.

quote old_salt: "Fish on!!!"

Hahaha....definitely one of my favorite fishing lines too, old salt!

I fish mainly for smallies in rocky streams and my preference is #20 suffix braid with #10 fluorocarbon leader joined by a uni knot.

quote CedricB: " Wondering what the favorite line Of BWCA fishermen is.
Pound test
Mono -braided
Brand.
"

Brand hardly matters. A skilled angler and a fellow paddler with a net can bring in 15 lb fish on 4-6lb mono. We have done it, never fly fishing though. We usually use whatever is lying around -- and afterwards whatever is cheapest.
Anyone ever tried dental floss in a pinch?

8 or 10 lb fire line original. It casts a mile and breaks at over 20 lbs. I can hit over 40 feet Deep trolling a rapala deep tail dancer. Eight to ten feet of seaguar flouro leader. Mono leaders for topwaters.
For winter bwca Lakers I use 8 or 10 lb pline.

Nowadays, I stick with 6# Maxima Ultragreen most of the time. Honestly though, I don't feel too strongly about the line as long as I have a nice lightweight leader tied on.

quote BnD: "I would tell you 15-20# braid with floor tippet but all the mono loyalists would condem me so I won't. Suffix 832 is AWESOME line. I'll leave you'll with this, cast any lure in your box with 4# line with ZERO memory, ZERO stretch and 20# strength and get back to me. We use the Shaw Grigsby knot for floro to lure and double uni for braid to floro. Slick."

I love using 10-15# braid as main, and clear leaders in various weights, usually fluoro, because I don't fish topwater very often. If I do, I'm usually cool with just using the braid to the lure, especially if i'm tossing to emergent vegetation. If I want a clear leader for topwater, I'll use mono. I like to fish tube jigs and Texas rigs a lot for bass. Fluoro's great for that. Can feel every twitch. Usually, I can tell the bottom composition, too. Super sensitive. When I toss a lure on a reel that is 'caveman-rigged' ;) with just mono, it feels like i'm fishing with a rubber band.
Also- don't have to re-spool very often. The braid holds up very well.. Tip: When the braid gets worn, and doesn't cast quite as well as it did while brand-new, peel off the line, and reverse it. One 250-yard spool could last WELL over a year like this.

Triple Fish Camo 6 LB test.

Ridiculously strong for a 6 lb test line. This is the only line I've used for the last 15 years. I have yet to find in any retail store so you have to order it online. It's made in Germany and it's very reasonably priced. You can get a 2,000 yd spool for less than $11.


Triple Fish