Whats your fav. line (make, lb test, colour)for:

1/ Topwater

2/ Crankin

3/ Soft-plastics

4/ Blade baits (spinnerbaits/ buzzbaits)

5/ Finesse fishing

soft plastics and finnesse i use xps 12lb flurocarbon

crankbaits i use 17lb mono.

1 line for all these techniques? It would be P-line

Fluoro-clear. Its very limp and memory is very low. If I needed abrasion resistance, it would be Yo-Zuri ultra soft Hybrid.

no, what your favorite line for those techniques... sorry, poorly worded on my part.

Berkley® Trilene® Big Game 15 lb test Mean Green 

Berkley® Trilene® Big Game 15 lb test Mean Green

x2.Big game means business

Whats your fav. line (make, lb test, colour)for:

1/ Topwater

2/ Crankin

3/ Soft-plastics

4/ Blade baits (spinnerbaits/ buzzbaits)

5/ Finesse fishing

1) 12-14# Mono (Trilene XT Green)

2) 12# FC or fluoro co-poly (P-Line clear)

3) 17# FC (Trilene 100% clear)

4) 14# Mono (Trilene XT Green)

5) 15# FC (Trilene 100% clear)

That's what works for me.

Yo-Zuri Hybrid - 10 - 12# does the job for me in all situations. I use the green and the smoke colors, depending on what I have on hand when I spool my reels. 10# is my standard and favorite.

Spinning tackle:

Yo-Zuri Hybrid or Hybrid Ultra Soft #6

(.010" diameter, 11.9 lb breaking strength)

Baitcasting gear: 

Hybrid #12 (.013" diameter, 19.5 lb breaking strength)

8-)

Whats your fav. line (make, lb test, colour)for:

1/ Topwater

2/ Crankin

3/ Soft-plastics

4/ Blade baits (spinnerbaits/ buzzbaits)

5/ Finesse fishing

1)14lb Stren original mono

2)***20lb PowerPro Braid with 10ft 10lb Extreme Angler FC leader tied on with a uni-knot

3)10lb P-line flouroclear

4)same as #2except I use a 12lb Ex. Ang. FC leader

5)8lb Flouroclear

***I was talking to a Shimano Rep at this years' outdoors-man show in Toronto, and he made a really interesting suggestion to me, verifying a feeling I had that I presented to him. We were talking about deep diving cranks (specifically my DD22s)... my set-up is a 7'2" Shimano Crucial Crankbait Stick MHMF (the TC4 is fantastic btw)... I asked him why more anglers don't use a thinner braid line with a flouro leader to give the advantages of getting deep and the ability to launch it a mile. He said that he had experimented the last half of the '09 season with the same set-up I mentioned above. The Extreme Angler FC leader material was a great suggestion because it seems tougher to me than using a regular FC line.

Anyways, my first thought was that the uni-knot will cause to much friction traveling through the guides, but after trying it out for myself it is proving to be a great option for launching the DD22s. I liked it so much that I've tied it on my flipping combo with 50lb braid and a 3ft 20lb FC leader (the uni-knot is already past the guides when I flip my jigs so there's no interference/friction at all, but I can't vouch for this set-up yet because I need to test the strength before I say it was a good idea)

I recommend any serious cranker to give this a shot, it's seeming like I'm getting a very nice little boost in casting distance to really get that crank down deep for longer!

I see no reason to use a leader for "moving" baits.

8-)

I see no reason to use a leader for "moving" baits.

8-)

I use the FC leader to get depth because the braid won't reach as deep

I'm sure that 10' of FC adds at least 3" to the dive depth of your baits.

I'm sure that 10' of FC adds at least 3" to the dive depth of your baits.

3 inches?

Either way, to each their own, I'm just saying it's an interesting suggestion, and I won't just write it off without doing a little more "testing".

I don't know for sure if a fish can see the line first as it sits in an ambush point, but it didn't seem like an unreasonable suggestion to add a bit of "stealth".  And I've noticed that the FC sinks a bit faster leading me to believe that the bait will get deeper quicker, and therefore stay deep for longer.

Any little advantage I can get out there is welcome as far as I'm concerned, so I'm willing to see if this actually shows any measurable difference.

Things never progress if you don't experiment a bit...

Whats your fav. line (make, lb test, colour)for:

1/ Topwater

2/ Crankin

3/ Soft-plastics

4/ Blade baits (spinnerbaits/ buzzbaits)

5/ Finesse fishing

Berkley 30-lb Fireline Tracer Braid

Roger