Your choice for fishing lines?

[Tinker]

Couldn't trak this down with a search, and I'm guessing it's been asked and answered, but I couldn't find it...

What fishing line - and weight or line - do you like for salmon? I'm happy with the new rod and the reel I received, but I'm second-guessing what line to put on them. Sigh...

 

[troutmasta]

Couldn't trak this down with a search, and I'm guessing it's been asked and answered, but I couldn't find it...

What fishing line - and weight or line - do you like for salmon? I'm happy with the new rod and the reel I received, but I'm second-guessing what line to put on them. Sigh...

What rod and reel?

I'm assuming Fall Chinook?

I run 50 pound braid on my bobber rod, usually a 3 oz bobber on the coast.

30 pound P-line XS hi-vis for my plug rod. Its a 9 foot lamiglass 10-25 with an Abu Garcia 6501

At Least 15 pound leader! These salmon are not line shy. I use 20 myself.

30+ pound fish!! Tiny Rivers...

 

[OnTheDrop]

65-80lb power pro. I mainly bobber fish for Fallies. All about stronggg hook sets. As Jeff said above. These guys aren't line shy. 30lb leader ( Maxima. )

 

[rogerdodger]

tidewater trolling for fall nooks: at least 50# braid mainline, 30# P-line CXX moss green leader (or pretied mooching rigs with 30# leader...)...tossing spinners for coho: 12# Berkeley nanofil mainline, 8# UG leader...cheers, roger

 

[Tinker]

Okay, this is all good. And extra thanks, troutmasta and rogerdodger, for covering all your setups.

It seems I was planning about 20lbs too light for chinook, so I'm glad I asked in time to correct myself.

 

[troutmasta]

Happy to help.

See you out there.

 

[rogerdodger]

Okay, this is all good. And extra thanks, troutmasta and rogerdodger, for covering all your setups.

It seems I was planning about 20lbs too light for chinook, so I'm glad I asked in time to correct myself.

and I think of it this way: perfect 20# line is more than enough but if it takes some damage, it might break at half that. so going with 30# gives more room for damage without dropping below the actual load capability required to bring in a big chinook, which is probably 10#...heck, on Wed my hook bent before the 30# leader broke, but that leader was undamaged, some 20# with a nick in it would probably have failed before that big hook bent... roger

 

[Socaaron]

a lot of it depends on what type of fishing you want to do,what type of angler you are, and what type of water you're in. Just got back from the Deschutes were my group landed a bunch of Nooks on leaders no heavier than 10#. Don't get me wrong they weren't 30# monsters but in the 15-25# range. Report to follow after I collect the pictures(for proof..lol)

 

[JeannaJigs]

On my float rod for fall I roll with 65# power pro and 40# p-line cxx. My drifting rod has the same sans the power pro and I drop it to a 30# leader. The rivers I fish have sharp ledges and all kinds of crap for them to do everything in their power to shear off your line so I try to give as little room for that as possible. It still happens though, just less often than when I ran lighter line.

 

[Tinker]

Jeanna, why no PowerPro on the drift rod (just curious)?

Yesterday I took a little trout tour and threw my spinner in a "V" between two boulders. Twice in a row. I couldn't make two casts that accurately for a 6-figure bet, so I'm thinking about switching to piano wire...

 

[JeannaJigs]

I don't drift fish with braid. That stuff needs to stay off the river bottom. It's horrid when there's braid snags in the river. If you're drift fishing properly you will snag up and break off and I choose to keep that crap away.

 

[troutmasta]

I don't drift fish with braid. That stuff needs to stay off the river bottom. It's horrid when there's braid snags in the river. If you're drift fishing properly you will snag up and break off and I choose to keep that crap away.

X2!

Drift fishing with braid is like brushing your teeth with a wire brush.

Breaking OFF is part of fishing the bottom.

 

[klamathsteel]

I don't drift fish with braid. That stuff needs to stay off the river bottom. It's horrid when there's braid snags in the river. If you're drift fishing properly you will snag up and break off and I choose to keep that crap away.

good for you young lady !!:clap:

 

[troutmasta]

good for you young lady !!:clap:

She's 47....:think:

 

[Igor]

She's 47....:think:

47 is a young lady in my opinion.

 

[troutmasta]

I was just yanking your chain she's not 47.

But that was a great response

 

[JeannaJigs]

She's 47....:think:

Hahaha stfu lol. Sometimes the hell I've put my body through makes me feel that old some mornings though. Sigh.

 

[Tinker]

I don't drift fish with braid. That stuff needs to stay off the river bottom. It's horrid when there's braid snags in the river. If you're drift fishing properly you will snag up and break off and I choose to keep that crap away.

Thank you very much.