your favourite flourocarbon leader brand?

[siwash]

Hey folks, need to get me some fresh leader material.. running low! What's your fav brand for 6lbs to 10lbs applications? I am referring to leader material only. 

 

Thanks

[mitch seguin]

Have tried quite a few over the years and I've settled on Sunline Super Sniper.

[siwash]

Never tried the Sunline brand. Japanese correct?

 

Any if you use straight flourocarbon? What applications would you use it for if so? What brand would you use for a full spool ?

[mitch seguin]

I use it in my float fishing set up.  Yes, an Asian product

[BillM]

Depends on what I'm using it for.   I've been using Phantom flouro on my centerpin setups for years (4-8lb), super string and price is right.    If I'm spring pike fishing I'll use 30/40lb Seaguar.   Everyday bass fishing 20lb whatever.   Muskie, unless I'm trolling I've converted over to solid wire for everything.

[siwash]

1 hour ago, BillM said:

Depends on what I'm using it for.   I've been using Phantom flouro on my centerpin setups for years (4-8lb), super string and price is right.    If I'm spring pike fishing I'll use 30/40lb Seaguar.   Everyday bass fishing 20lb whatever.   Muskie, unless I'm trolling I've converted over to solid wire for everything.

Are you spooling whole reels with it or just for leader use?

[BillM]

44 minutes ago, siwash said:

Are you spooling whole reels with it or just for leader use?

Leader.   I hate flouro as main line.

[misfish]

5 hours ago, BillM said:

Leader.   I hate flouro as main line.

It,s also a big waste of hard earned money, to spool a whole reel with floro.

I use P-LINE Floro clear a lot. Does not seem to hurt my strikes.

[CrowMan]

For fluoro mainline...Seaguar Tatsu..very limp and supple.

For leader material (6 to 10lbs) Sunline Sniper or Seaguar Gold.

[siwash]

I ended up getting the sunline 

 

heading out in a few hours. We hope to post a positive report! Hopefully Bass, pics and whatever else wants to bite!

[porkpie]

15 hours ago, siwash said:

I ended up getting the sunline 

 

heading out in a few hours. We hope to post a positive report! Hopefully Bass, pics and whatever else wants to bite!

You can’t go wrong with super sniper.  It’s tough as nails!

[AKRISONER]

Sunline fc sniper.

I only use straight fluro on hard bait bait casting set ups. Like for cranking and spybaiting.

straight mono for jerkbaits

braid to fluro or straight braid for essentially everything else.

topwater use mono for your leader because it floats.

[Knownuthin]

Seagar for me.  Decent price and it seems to hold up to abrasions a bit better than P-Line.

[AKRISONER]

5 hours ago, Knownuthin said:

Seagar for me.  Decent price and it seems to hold up to abrasions a bit better than P-Line.

I’ve seen some outrageous stuff with p line, as far as I’m concerned, stay the hell away

[siwash]

22 hours ago, AKRISONER said:

Sunline fc sniper.

I only use straight fluro on hard bait bait casting set ups. Like for cranking and spybaiting.

straight mono for jerkbaits

braid to fluro or straight braid for essentially everything else.

topwater use mono for your leader because it floats.

I was at Basspro and the guy helping me (who seemed very knowledgeable otherwsie) discouraged me from spooling a whole reel with flouro. 

What's your go-to flouro for a whole spool of it, Akrisoner? 

[AKRISONER]

29 minutes ago, siwash said:

I was at Basspro and the guy helping me (who seemed very knowledgeable otherwsie) discouraged me from spooling a whole reel with flouro. 

What's your go-to flouro for a whole spool of it, Akrisoner? 

Sunline fc sniper in 14 or 16lb

throw a crank bait on it once you get the hang of really handling a baitcaster and you’ll never go back. 

takes lots of practice to be able to really bomb casts with straight fluro so I don’t recommend it if you are still learning to use a baitcaster. Don’t get discouraged, you will birdnest, you’ll notice even guys on the elite series bird nest occasionally, you just learn how to get them out without too much hassle. 

[siwash]

I was thinking more for the spinning outfits.. I am happy with PP on my baitcaster. 

 

Would you use that Sunline FC (straight through) on a spinning setup fishing with a jig, tube, worm, live bait or drop shot? 

Edited September 12, 2023 by siwash

[siwash]

I tried the improved surgeons knot on Sunday for the first time.  Seemed to hold up well.. 

Edited September 12, 2023 by siwash

[siwash]

Here's an interesting piece on the case for straight flouro... even though it's pretty dated (2017):

 

https://www.wired2fish.com/opinions-philosophies/i-went-straight-fluoro-on-my-spinning-reels/

[AKRISONER]

Absolutely not lol

line management becomes a nightmare regardless of how good your line is, plus most techniques you are using a spinning outfit with

 

1. You need maximum sensitivity, braid has no stretch so it translates back up to the rod.

2. I like high vis braid so you can visibly detect your line when it hits bottom and when fish bite.

I’ll tell you right now, every single one of the top pros that fish smallmouth on spinning outfits is using braid to fluro…if it’s what they are doing, it’s probably what you want to be doing as well.

 

Edited September 12, 2023 by AKRISONER

[CrowMan]

The only time I might run fluoro as mainline on a spinning outfit is when fishing spybaits....and it would be 6lb so not so stiff. Even then...with spybaits I just run a very long fluoro leader off the braid on spinning gear..

[AKRISONER]

37 minutes ago, CrowMan said:

The only time I might run fluoro as mainline on a spinning outfit is when fishing spybaits....and it would be 6lb so not so stiff. Even then...with spybaits I just run a very long fluoro leader off the braid on spinning gear..

i personally throw spybaits on a baitcasting outfit. Im kinda lucky though, years ago as I was building my arsenal of fishing rods and i picked up an oldschool loomis CBR783c on the cheap. Its supposed to be a ML cranking rod, but its kinda weird, its almost overly parabolic. I guess it may be great for throwing really small cranks...either way sure enough, its a bloody perfect spybait rod.  Because of its gummyness it has a delayed load which i find actually allows the fish to choke the spybait before they feel the resistance of the rod. When the rod was made I dont even think the spybait was invented yet.

[Lape0019]

I have not use leader specific material in years. It was hard for me to justify buy a 25 yard spool of leader material in 6-8lb test when I could get fluorocarbon spools of 200 yards for double the price. 

With that being the case, I absolutely love Tatsu but the price of it turns me to alternate solutions. Like mentioned quite a few times, I use Sunline FC sniper. At half the price of Tatsu, it is not quite just as good but I would say about 85-90% there. 

If you truly want leader material, they offer that in a 50 yard spool in FC sniper as well. 

 

[DRIFTER_016]

For float fishing I've been using Sunline Super Sniper for many years.

For my heavier set ups I use Seaguar Blue Label

[siwash]

On 9/12/2023 at 8:23 AM, CrowMan said:

The only time I might run fluoro as mainline on a spinning outfit is when fishing spybaits....and it would be 6lb so not so stiff. Even then...with spybaits I just run a very long fluoro leader off the braid on spinning gear..

How long is long Crosman?