Done with light weight mono!

**danieldelarosa** · 04-16-2011, 11:37 AM

How does PP work out on the old school reels, like zebco 33's and zebco micro 11's?

**SmokyOkie** · 04-16-2011, 01:49 PM

You siad Old School and I thought you were talking about 4500CB Ambassadeurs . I have no idea how it would work on spin cast reels. I can't see why it wouldn't, but that doesn't really mean annything. Why don't you spool one up and see then come back and tell us?

**danieldelarosa** · 04-17-2011, 03:34 PM

Tried it in my sons zebco 11 micro. Didn't work too well. The farthest I could cast was about ten foot.

**SmokyOkie** · 04-17-2011, 08:43 PM

what weight?

**danieldelarosa** · 04-17-2011, 10:12 PM

20#

**meatdragger** · 04-18-2011, 08:53 AM

I looked at it this weekend at Academy. It's not for me.

**Ranger09** · 04-20-2011, 08:59 PM

Well I went and did it..bought some 10lb PP..with all the talk I had to try not saying I am converted or anything but I never lost a jig yesterday..works well with cork and jig..not to bad in brushpiles either..big advantage there but I also use stick guards on my jigs and its a disavantage when you catch a few crappie and you have to cut your line to put another stick guard on..I can see the advantage at Eufaula and the off colored water the crappie dont spook as easily even if you move the brushpile around..well it didnt work at Tenkiller as well..when you jerk a pile around there as I did today they spooked and never caught another 1 out of it when I pulled up half a tree..lol..ok a lil limb..switched back to 4lb mono and didnt have that problem the rest of the day..so on the BIG EASY its PP and on Tenkiller its mono

**SmokyOkie** · 04-20-2011, 09:37 PM

Do you heat your jig hooks so that they will straighten out?

**Ranger09** · 04-21-2011, 07:33 AM

heated em up Smoky but after fishing for yrs with mono I sure lost alot of crappie from jerking maybe alil to hard..straight'n those hooks right out..so i stopped smokin those hooks and it worked better for me..lost 1 huge momma right up against the boat from a hook straightened out so I stopped and thru my BIC FLICK to the water gods..to each his own i guess..lol

**SmokyOkie** · 04-21-2011, 01:27 PM

I don't heat mine. I just wondered. Years ago, a fella from north Arkansas taught me to heat the hooks. When I lived in Illinois, we didn't catch fish the size that we catch here. I lost a few fish due to hooks straightening and quit doing it.

I am curious though. I learned to heat them at the bend. I wonder if you heated them right behind the bend if you might not lose fewer fish, but still come loose from brush easily.

I watched my son yank a couple or three 1`# plus fish straight out of the water an into the boat the other day because of the Power Pro.

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