Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: BwiBwi on September 25, 2005, 02:01:00 AM
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I used 10lb leader but those chum just cut the lines. What can I use? For both float fishing and fly fishing.
Thank you
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I use 20lbs leader for float fishing leader for chum. However, I don't fish for chum that much. I definitely do not target chum the fly. When fly fishing for salmon, the maximum tippit that I use 15lbs.
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10lb maxima max for all species in the vedder
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10 pound maxima
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10 lb. maxima max.
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I used 15 main, 8 leader on the float
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was using 12lb maxima yesterday and it worked fine.
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15lb Trilene Big Game........cheaper than the Maxima but does the job :)
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Perhaps it was the batch I had but will never go back to Big Game again. I remeber one day I was fishing with a 15lb big game main and a 10lb maxima leader and everytime I would break off a snag it would snap the 15lb.
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Maxima does actually over-rate their line, just something to keep in mind. The quality of line is very good (both in colour in and out of the water, but also for it's resistence to abraision). Even though triline does claim to be abraision resistant, I've personally found that it still doesn't compare to maxima. I used to change my main 2-3 times a season using triline (I was younger, and it seemed cheaper, I didn't do the math for how much I used in a season, just for what it cost per spool), I change my Maxima at the beginning of every season (both in the salt and fresh), obviously the numbers differ if I got riggered or spooled... :P
Chums on drift gear, 15 main, 10 leader (maxima)
Chums on spoons/spinners, 8 lb test (the fight may be longer, but it sure is fun, 10-15 minutes max) (maxima)
Chums on the fly, 8 lb tippet (haven't had a problem yet)
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Just keep in mind boys the line rating may be 10 or 20 lbs but as soon as you tie a knot it's reduced to half of it's rating so 10 lbs becomes 5 lbs . I use 20 lbs for Chum and they still break the leader . Just my 2 cents.
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Not true, some knots such as the palomar retain the line stregth extremely well.
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I am a rigger by trade and a knot reduces the breaking strength by 50% the palomar is defiantly the strongest knot but it still reduces the strength of the line a knot is a knot and the b.s is reduced by 50% :P Any one that uses tuff line should use the palomar it's the best knot for braided line bar none.
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Just keep in mind boys the line rating may be 10 or 20 lbs but as soon as you tie a knot it's reduced to half of it's rating so 10 lbs becomes 5 lbs . I use 20 lbs for Chum and they still break the leader . Just my 2 cents.
Glad you brought that up legend i never knew that, and allways thought i tied the hook bad or something cuz it allways snaps around there.
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Thank you for the input. What brand would you recommand for the lines?
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Don't be cheap buy good line it's a personal preference though.
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Okay which brand is good line though?
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Maxima
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Okay thank you
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34 inches of 30 - 35 pound Maxima between hootchie (purple) and flasher ;)
Don't ever fish them in the fresh you see... ;D
Cheers,
Nog
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But if you're using braid (halibut, sturgeon, etc), reccomend TUFF line, very good strength to line-diamater ratio (50 lb braid dia = 8 lb mono dia, or something like that)
I managed to fit 570 yrds of 50 lb TUFF line onto a reel designed to only hold 320 yrds of 20 lb mono (GTi 320), I realize the underrated for this class of line strength, but this reel has actually lasted me longer than all my other reels so far (with regard to drag problems).
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I use Tuff XP. Unlike Fireline Tuff doesn't fray and it doesn't dig into your reel
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fireline is a rip off.
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just tried this spider line for the first time and it's not bad better than fireline for cost and i would say just as durable i also like the tuff line xp. when fishing the vedder i normally use mono 12lb main and 10lb leader and it's always maxima ;)