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Looking at spooling some 2LB line for open water winter fishing. I hear 2LB line will help with detecting bites better. I normally use MR. Crappie 4LB Hi-Vis Crappie Line. Heres what I'm looking at getting.
1. Vicious Panfish ICE
2. Vicious Panfish
3. Northland Bionic Panfish
So what do you all use? I can't seem to find 2LB Mr. Crappie Line.
Nate.
I have used several 2# lines:
P-line Premium CX
Sufix Tournament Class
Vanish flourocarbon
Maxima Chameleon
Trilene XL
All are good lines.
Ive used northland panfish and vicious panfish both in 4lb and love them both. Sometimes the northland has problems with knots slipping when I tye them could just be my knots though.
The only 2lb line I can ever seem to find around here is Trilene XL. It has been working good for me.
I like Trilene XL. Not only does lighter line help with sensitivity, it adds action to lures and jigs.
My best panfish line is: "Whats a nice crappie like you doing in a lake like this?"
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Originally Posted by Badgerloader
LOL , I'll have to try it.
4 # P-Line favorite so far
I really like the Cabelas Pro-Line
I've tried every line posted about so far. I keep returning to SOS 2# test for my mono needs.
Regards
I'm sure it's good line. Based on it's diameter, though, I'd say it's much closer to 4# line.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alphahawk
Long time no see...how are you? All of these lines are rated quite a bit above 2# test. I just had my knee replaced or I would go look at diameter. I have a 20,000 yard spool of it. I have even gone the Stroft...Tectan route but always come back to the SOS....when I use mono. It is a little bigger than P Line Cx Premium but I find it casts just as far...better knot strength. Pretty much my same findings as the other lines mentioned. But my main line is now the hi-vis chartreuse NanoFil. I just can't see any 2# test at all anymore unless it is hi-vis. I will use a fluro leader with it. These old eyes are failing me disco.
Regards
I'm doing well but not fishing enough. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Alphahawk
Diam for 2# SOS is .16mm
Diam for 2# Maxima Chameleon is .12mm
Diam for 2# Ande Tournament is .12mm
I don't have the 2# P-line in front of me, but it's very thin -- something like .10 or .11mm.
You should use the line you like (and can see.) ;) I only harp on diameter because I don't think most people consider it.
Last year I switched to Power Pro braided line and it's probably my favorite. If I've got a big bluegill, redear, crappie or bass on, I really want that fish to hit my braided line because it's that good, you have supreme confidence it won't break and it doesn't. The only problem for me is the fact I like to fish for redear on bottom with nothing but a small split shot and a #4 long shank hook. The clear mono is MUCH easier to keep an eye on, it's really hard to see the braided colored line when tight line fishing on bottom. That's the only reason I haven't switched all of my poles over to braid.
For my mono poles I like Pline in 4lb test, no way in the world would I use 2lb test. Actually I'm moving up this year to 6lb test on all of my mono reels, lose a 1.5 redear on 2lb line and you'll change your mind fast about being undergunned. I called a fishing guide down at Barkley Lake and he flatly told me to have 6lb test on my reels...you don't want to be undergunned on a lake such as Barkley. You may manage with two pound test in small waters though..I still wouldn't chance it after losing a couple of big fish on four lb line last year.
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Originally Posted by redearhoosier
I regularly catch Smallies in the 4 to 6 pound range all the time on 2# test. Shell Crackers in the 11 to 14 inch range...no problems. Brown trout in the 2 to 6 pound range and rainbow in the 3 pound range on the Caney Fork. I don't post much here but do over at fishingtn.com. I am catching these fish out of Center Hill...Dale Hollow....Pickwick. I have been an avid UL light line guy for about 5 years now. I don't have any problems at all with 2# test line. The only fish that is very doubtful I will get in on 2# test is say a 4 or 5 pound large mouth....just too much torque. But I don't target large mouth so it is rare I ever hook one. It is not as difficult as most think using light line.
Regards
Good luck with that 2lb line and I certainly hope you don't regret using it. There are many situations where you might hook into a nice bluegill, not even a really big one, but it could be in heavy weed beds or anything else and that two lb line will eventually get abused in those situations. As the line weakens from abuse etc, you're really asking for trouble with low strength line.
When professional fishing guides tell me to bring six lb line down to Barkley for Shellcracker fishing because they've seen clients lose wall hangers on two and four lb test, I'm hanging on every word at that point. Best to ya!
I got a 7# largemouth, a 7# grass carp, and a 6# common carp on 2# line. It can handle any bream that swims.
I use Trilene XL, Vicious and Berkley Ice.
Whatever poundage you choose, don't forget to always have your drag prepared for the bigger, nontarget fish, this is very important
Or, if you're fishing one of the ponds I manage, to have your drag prepared for the bluegill:biggrinQuote:
Originally Posted by wademaster
It's not so much the pounds but brands I'm interested in. If they made 2lbs Mr. Crappie line I'd use it but they don't. I ended up at my local bait shop and the clerk even said he's been selling 2lb line like crazy and suggested Stren Hi-Vis gold. Has a .006 Dia.(.15mm) sooo I will give it a try.
Nate
I am somewhat new to this but where I fish I really feel that 2# test is pretty light. Are you using this light line to cast very small baits? Smallest I use is 6# casting mostly 1/16 oz baits.
My main lure is a Trout Magnet....1/64 ounce. But I will sometimes use 1/16 and 1/32...and on occasion 1/8 ounce. I lose very few fish. Now the places I fish are not filled with logs and branches. But on occasion I will get wrapped up in some limbs....buck bushes.....but more often than not if I give free line they work themselves out. All of these 2# test lines today are incredibly strong. Fishing light catches me a lot more fish...not to mention I have a whole lot of fun!
Regards
I agree with Alphahawk and use the TM and similar baits a lot. I use more 4# than 2#, but I do use the 2. (I'm far more worried about losing jigs than I am about losing fish.)
On a related note, I picked up a copy of Bassmaster magazine recently. There's an article about Aaron Martens and his dropshot methods. He talks about how he was using 5# line -- in a bass tournament -- but wished he had been using 3# because he knew he could have gotten more bites on the 3.
Seaguar 4# for me. I caught an 8# LM on it last year and have caught 9# steelhead. It's thin and it's tuff.
XL Trilene or Suffix - 2-4# as 3' leader to Power Pro braid -10#
I don't get the line twist and infernal reel nests with braid as I do with mono or fc and it casts better using 1/32 and 1/16 oz jigs.
We stumbled on a line a few years ago made in Germany. Just about the best small poundage line I have found. Kinda pricey, I think it is called Damel Techtan. Great stuff. But again pricey. I like the 5lb spools.
It's called Tectan, made by Damyl. Haven't seen any in the U.S.A. for years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Riverrat13
Fish USA carries it.Quote:
Originally Posted by split handle
The tectan stuff is a relative of power pro some say??????????????????????
I don't think so. Tectan is a German monofilament. Power Pro is braid -- not sure where it's made, but it's owned by Shimano.Quote:
Originally Posted by sharphook
Mono- Sufix or Pline
Braid-Fireline
Fluro-BPS XPS or Vicious