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Line choice?
Posted: September 22nd, 2005, 8:28 am
by Hit-n-Miss

Question for all you experts. What kind,#, and color line do yall use for topwater? And your jig poles too. I've always used stren 8-17# clear or low vis green.

Posted: September 22nd, 2005, 9:22 am
by dstockwell
10# Ande backcountry blue.
Line
Posted: September 22nd, 2005, 10:36 am
by dowawoo
Tried them all, got so many part spools, its ridiculous, but end up with what I started with, Ande, and use fluorocarbon leader material, and I don't cinch the knot, leave it a bit loose, dances better
Don
Posted: September 22nd, 2005, 10:46 am
by Nathan
Most of the time it's 10# Power Pro with a 4-5' leader of 15# fluoro. If mono then 10 or 12# Ande or Berkley Big Game Supreme. I also use a loop knot with towaters and a lot of other baits inshore. Here is the knot I use:
http://www.flyfishlouisiana.com/nonslip_loop_knot.htm
Nathan
Posted: September 22nd, 2005, 10:47 am
by RHTFISH
10# and recently the newer 15# Power Pro with short 20# fluorocarbon
leaders. I keep a couple of reels spooled with 8# ande backcountry
with same type leaders for visitors using my tackle that at not used to braided line.
I use some very old boron rods and medium and medium light
ugly stiks to compensate for the braided line.

Posted: September 22nd, 2005, 12:23 pm
by Hit-n-Miss

Looks like Ande is the winner. Can you get that local, and how much is it? Have any of you used triplefish, perlon? It also looks like I'm the only one that ties straight to the lure.

Side note does braid tie like mono?
Posted: September 22nd, 2005, 12:35 pm
by wevans
Posted: September 22nd, 2005, 1:38 pm
by Frank Bradfield
I use 100 # Ande just in case i catch a grouper

, i like the power pro for CT's and i've put power pro on my pinfish reels and like it a lot...
Posted: September 22nd, 2005, 2:46 pm
by Tom Keels
CT Rod, 20# power pro green
Light spinning (jerk baits.straight jigs) 10# Berkley Trilene Big game inshore(although they no longer make it) +20 pound flourocarbon leader.
Baticasters (Topwater, redfishing), 15 pound ande green tied straight to bait.
Posted: September 22nd, 2005, 2:50 pm
by T Smith
12 # ande straight to the lure. Just something I got from Dad those old tried and true saltwater brands, Penn reels and Ande line.
Posted: September 22nd, 2005, 3:01 pm
by Chalk
Power Pro on CT rods
Berkley Big Game on everything else...
Posted: September 22nd, 2005, 6:10 pm
by tin can
Power Pro on my CT rod. 10# and 14# Silverthread AN40 on everything else.