Oh No, Power Pro - Talk about Your Experience
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Thanx. Yes 30lbs Power Pro - Green, tied to a swivel then flo-carb 18" 40lbs leader 5/0 Gami bait-holder hook, with whole skimmer Clam. This babe inhaled the clam on what later proved to be a full stomach ( Stomach examed later upon cleaning she had: 1: 10-12" Bunker and 1: 5-7" Porgy) already in her when she fell to the skimmer clam. Bunker looked to be a day or two old - all scales and fins have been digested already, see pic. Yummy
I use Power Pro exclusively on my big fish gear. I don't like it for casting lighweight gear like crappie jigs or lighter spoons and spinners. I used the Power Pro (not by Berkley btw) for my sturgeon outfits. I have two twelve foot Medium Heavy Ugly Stiks, and one 15 footer. The two twelve footers have Penn 9500ss, the 15 has Shimano Spheros Sp14000FA. All rigged with 100lb Power Pro. I've used Power Pro for 10 years now, ever since a rep from Innovative Textiles convinced me to take a 10000 yd spool of 100lb to sell as downrigger line in the small sporting goods store I was an assistant manager in. We weren't too wild about having downrigger line becuase there really isn't all that much of a market for it in southern Idaho. The rep left us with a bunch of little packets to hand out to customers.
Anyway, I have been a strugeon fisherman since I was about 11 years old. My dad and I had been going fishing nearly every weekend that year because the fishing was just soo amazing. We had burnt 3 reels and gone through about 200 dollars worth of Berkley Big Game. I had recently begun to try all the braids that were flooding the market. Man, let me tell you I was NOT impressed. Sturgeon are very very powerful critters and they tend to go one some bearing smoking runs. Well when you hook a good one you are in for a fight and if they turn to run they can pack the flatter lines into the reel. by flatter lines I am referring to the spectra type braids like Spiderwire and others, they are a flat style braid. THis cause a major sieze and some quick footed hop skip scooting over rocks and boulders till the line breaks or the hook pulls free. NOT FUN. So I moved over to some of the more limp braids like Tough Line, let me say this up front, I am not trying to put tough line out of business but what a bunch of crap. Tough Line has AWESOME strength, however it's shock rating sucks. This means that when setting the hook, if you get a solid hook set with these big fish and these big rods you have a tendancy to snap the line because of the instant shock. It's things like this that cause even the most level of fisherman to spew a stream of colorful verses, decorating the canyon walls for miles up and down river.
So it was, one day after snapping off 4 fish during the hook set that I decided to wind up this so called round braid Power Pro. Not being the most enthusiastic supporter of braided lines I wasn't really expecting much. We gathered up our gear and hit the road to CJ Strike dam and the amazing sturgeon fishing that waited there. Dad kinda laughed at me when he saw me with my "Hot Pink" line. you see when the rep sold us the spool I wanted a colored line for easy marking for people who trolled, he said he had hot pink and I figured why not. So, there I am with Hot Pink line dealing with a few chuckles and remarks about my fashion sense, I decided to try a rigging I had learned earlier that year which is much easier to rig up with braided line than with mono. Basically it used a Palomar knot to attach the hook to the main line thus eliminating any equipment failures such as swivels. I walked up the the shoreline, wiggled a bit to get a goo casting motion and cut loose a cast.. HOLY COW!!! I swear that cast could have taken out a duck at 500 meters!! Well, not really but wow, I had seen a cast like that. So I quickly reeled in knowing there was a hole the guys all dream of hitting called the Frog Hole that is about 50 yards past everyones maximum range and can only be hit by back bouncing in the early spring when the water flows much higher. I hit it in the air with ease. I don't mean to brag but I more than doubled the number of fish that anyone else caught that weeked. They ranged from 4 footers to one nice 9'6", one of the biggest I've caught out of the area. I never broke my line, never even saw a nick in it. I am sold on Power Pro, always will be. On a side note, my father used the same 8/0 VMC hook for 3 years with Power Pro. He would regularly sharpen the hook and once every trip, maybe every other trip he'd cut the line and re-tie. I've never seen a line that I knew wasn't going to fail and if used right with a proper pole and reel would land the fish you were fighting. All lines fail but I've not yet found one fault with Power Pro. When the rest of the sturgeon fisherman saw my father and I landing the big ones they normally lost and casting to holes they could never hit, Power Pro took off.. it's now the most common sturgeon fishing line in these parts... all thanks to a pushy rep who wanted me to sell it for trolling.
Anyway, I have been a strugeon fisherman since I was about 11 years old. My dad and I had been going fishing nearly every weekend that year because the fishing was just soo amazing. We had burnt 3 reels and gone through about 200 dollars worth of Berkley Big Game. I had recently begun to try all the braids that were flooding the market. Man, let me tell you I was NOT impressed. Sturgeon are very very powerful critters and they tend to go one some bearing smoking runs. Well when you hook a good one you are in for a fight and if they turn to run they can pack the flatter lines into the reel. by flatter lines I am referring to the spectra type braids like Spiderwire and others, they are a flat style braid. THis cause a major sieze and some quick footed hop skip scooting over rocks and boulders till the line breaks or the hook pulls free. NOT FUN. So I moved over to some of the more limp braids like Tough Line, let me say this up front, I am not trying to put tough line out of business but what a bunch of crap. Tough Line has AWESOME strength, however it's shock rating sucks. This means that when setting the hook, if you get a solid hook set with these big fish and these big rods you have a tendancy to snap the line because of the instant shock. It's things like this that cause even the most level of fisherman to spew a stream of colorful verses, decorating the canyon walls for miles up and down river.
So it was, one day after snapping off 4 fish during the hook set that I decided to wind up this so called round braid Power Pro. Not being the most enthusiastic supporter of braided lines I wasn't really expecting much. We gathered up our gear and hit the road to CJ Strike dam and the amazing sturgeon fishing that waited there. Dad kinda laughed at me when he saw me with my "Hot Pink" line. you see when the rep sold us the spool I wanted a colored line for easy marking for people who trolled, he said he had hot pink and I figured why not. So, there I am with Hot Pink line dealing with a few chuckles and remarks about my fashion sense, I decided to try a rigging I had learned earlier that year which is much easier to rig up with braided line than with mono. Basically it used a Palomar knot to attach the hook to the main line thus eliminating any equipment failures such as swivels. I walked up the the shoreline, wiggled a bit to get a goo casting motion and cut loose a cast.. HOLY COW!!! I swear that cast could have taken out a duck at 500 meters!! Well, not really but wow, I had seen a cast like that. So I quickly reeled in knowing there was a hole the guys all dream of hitting called the Frog Hole that is about 50 yards past everyones maximum range and can only be hit by back bouncing in the early spring when the water flows much higher. I hit it in the air with ease. I don't mean to brag but I more than doubled the number of fish that anyone else caught that weeked. They ranged from 4 footers to one nice 9'6", one of the biggest I've caught out of the area. I never broke my line, never even saw a nick in it. I am sold on Power Pro, always will be. On a side note, my father used the same 8/0 VMC hook for 3 years with Power Pro. He would regularly sharpen the hook and once every trip, maybe every other trip he'd cut the line and re-tie. I've never seen a line that I knew wasn't going to fail and if used right with a proper pole and reel would land the fish you were fighting. All lines fail but I've not yet found one fault with Power Pro. When the rest of the sturgeon fisherman saw my father and I landing the big ones they normally lost and casting to holes they could never hit, Power Pro took off.. it's now the most common sturgeon fishing line in these parts... all thanks to a pushy rep who wanted me to sell it for trolling.
