Lets Discuss Fishing Line...What Are You Baws Using These Days?

All my inshore stuff is rigged with 30# PowerPro or 30# Finns braid.

Leader is 15# or 20# mono.

30 pound power pro with Fluro leader for salt. Fresh heavy power pro braid on frog rod, fluro for any worm, jig, creature bait and mono for top water and spinner bait. Mono is suffix or stren, Seagar Fluro and power pro for braid.

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What are you using for your trout rigs?What about redfish? 

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20lb daiwa x8 braid, 15lb seaguar fluoro leader for my soft plastics. I use light jig heads(1/8-3/16) so the smaller diameter line helps me get more distance.

30lb braid with 20lb mono leader for mirrOlures and top water.

I've gone to braided line on everything.

I've tried a lot of brands, and finally decided to stick with Spider Wire. Minimum I use is 30#, max is 50#. I have more reels filled with 50# than any other weight.

Suffix 820

Trilene mono on all.

17# on the big stick. (Rare use, vacation to beach or inlaws lake house with big cats, striper)

#14 on the baitcaster. 10% of my use.

10# on the med-light spinning rig. 10% of my use.

4# on the ultralight. 79% of my use.

25# flouro leader for the big rig, bargain brand, not trilene.


I have some suffix braid 6# equivalent on another ultralight but it just doesn't cast light weight like mono, even with small diameter. Also doesn't do slip bobbers as well as mono. Also a bitch to break off snags.

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Need to start paying more attention

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not really as long as long as you don't go full retard. Never go full retard

Reasons I've been whipped on the same fish
Bait choice or retrieve? yeah.
Bait color? yeah
Boat positioning? yeah
Line choice? not yet

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I won't say it doesn't matter at all, but line choice is way, way down the list on whether or not a person catches fish. Most of it is personal preference.

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agreed..thank you for reassuring me that I havent been missing out on something that I should be paying more attention to

Im a lazy fisherman when it comes to line...but im on point when it comes to rod, reels, bait, tides, weather, wind, water color, moon, etc...I a little bit obsessed with that shite

I have some friends I fish with are just the complete opposite.

My friend who is an inshore guide on the Atlantic, has been for 20+ years, uses flouro leader on every rod on the boat (Braid main lines). He doesn't have to. Most clients wouldn't know the difference. He could save time and money by not doing it. But he still does it, so that speaks volumes to me. And it's not usually clear water either, he still does it.