Slime Line…Any New Thoughts On It?
My crappie fishing consists almost exclusively of casting or drifting with fixed bobber or slip bobber live minnow rigs and casting and retrieving crappie plastics both with and without a fixed bobber. I do not troll, spider rig, or have live scope. I have a new side scan unit yet to be installed, but I will always be using one of the above presentations, and almost all of my fish will come in less than 20 feet of water, with most of the visible structure being docks and boat houses and lily pad or pencil reed beds during the spawn, and the invisible structure being old stumps and wooden fish cribs. Sometimes I will have inexperienced family members using my rods, and so for my situation, I’ve decided to leave braided line to my walleye rods and go all in on monofilament, given the amount of bobber fishing I do, whether it be jigs or minnows.
I think I’d like to give Slime Line a try and I’m wondering if you guys who have used it can give any updated thoughts on it, as some of the threads on it are older. I will be putting the line on size 1000 reels that indicate a capacity of 100 yards of six pound test, but since I tend to run my main line to tiny swivels with short fluorocarbon leaders to the hook, I was considering eight pound test for better abrasion resistance to sliding bobber stops and line kinking from the various fixed bobber hooks or springs. Nowhere in my region is any of this Slime line sold where I can look at it up close to determine its properties, so I’m curious if you guys think the eight pound test is overkill and won’t perform well from size 1000 reels anyway.
Thanks in advance for your input!
