Oh No, Power Pro - Talk about Your Experience

[Tequila]

I usually stick with mono cause Im tired of breaking rods on two pound fish and nearly breaking my wrist as well! It is good stuff though and its too $$ for the kind of fishing I do as you loose ALOT of line due to the rocks.

Loosen your drag then, your using power pro the wrong way then. Don't use it like super lite super strong line that you can now horse the fish around with, open the drag some. Like me I use at most 15lbs of drag with 30lbs line, I have never had a fish spool me nor have I ever lost a well hooked fish. And I only broke one rod and that was because the drag was way too tight.

 

[JD7.62]

Loosen your drag then, your using power pro the wrong way then. Don't use it like super lite super strong line that you can now horse the fish around with, open the drag some. Like me I use at most 15lbs of drag with 30lbs line, I have never had a fish spool me nor have I ever lost a well hooked fish. And I only broke one rod and that was because the drag was way too tight.

Thanks for the advice but Im not exactly new to fishing. And if you fish for the fish I do, you WILL get spooled with 15lbs of drag. When you hook an 80 pound paddle fish below a dam, 15lbs isnt slowing that fish down. Heck it aint slowing down a 10lb hybrid!

Breaking rods isnt about the drag either, people who fish seriously will brake a rod with braid. Its only a matter of time.

Really my main reason I dont use braid is that on the river a spool of line lasts two to three trips tops before you need to put new line on it.

 

[Tequila]

Thanks for the advice but Im not exactly new to fishing. And if you fish for the fish I do, you WILL get spooled with 15lbs of drag. When you hook an 80 pound paddle fish below a dam, 15lbs isnt slowing that fish down. Heck it aint slowing down a 10lb hybrid!

Breaking rods isnt about the drag either, people who fish seriously will brake a rod with braid. Its only a matter of time.

Really my main reason I dont use braid is that on the river a spool of line lasts two to three trips tops before you need to put new line on it.

Ok I should have asked what type of fishing your doing, and that was just an example to be applied to whatever fishing your doing. You do know they make Power Pro in stronger tests. I now use Power Pro for saltwater fishing also, though I haven't run across that 80 Striper yet. Last year a buddy that spools his reels with 100lbs test landed a 6ft Mako Shark after about a 45 minute battle from hell. I know guys that use PP for goliath grouper fishing and swear by it, and others that don't. But if your doing that much fishing with that type fish then any line you use is going to need changing often.

 

[EricIvins]

Thanks for the advice but Im not exactly new to fishing. And if you fish for the fish I do, you WILL get spooled with 15lbs of drag. When you hook an 80 pound paddle fish below a dam, 15lbs isnt slowing that fish down. Heck it aint slowing down a 10lb hybrid!

Breaking rods isnt about the drag either, people who fish seriously will brake a rod with braid. Its only a matter of time.

Really my main reason I dont use braid is that on the river a spool of line lasts two to three trips tops before you need to put new line on it.

I fish seriously, use power pro, and havn't broke a rod yet.........?

 

[JD7.62]

Ok I should have asked what type of fishing your doing, and that was just an example to be applied to whatever fishing your doing. You do know they make Power Pro in stronger tests. I now use Power Pro for saltwater fishing also, though I haven't run across that 80 Striper yet. Last year a buddy that spools his reels with 100lbs test landed a 6ft Mako Shark after about a 45 minute battle from hell. I know guys that use PP for goliath grouper fishing and swear by it, and others that don't. But if your doing that much fishing with that type fish then any line you use is going to need changing often.

I fish in a major river below a dam where snags are constant. Because of that you will loose line. That is why I have to re-spool often and that is why it costs too much for me.

I do like power pro and I believe its the best braid but I just personally dont use it for my reason as stated.

Also, my biggest fish, a 7ft nurse shark, was caught on basic 15lb Trilene. It was a 3hr+ fight. Just because I landed the fish, it doesnt mean I think its the best.

The last rod I broke was when I throwing a Texas rigged lizard, had a tap, set the hook and broke a G-loomis rod, it was 50lb PP and a fish at most 2lbs! I dont know many tourny anglers who havnt broken a rod with braid, it just happens. Heck, I saw Takishi Omori (I spelled that wrong Im sure) break a rod a couple weeks ago on TV. Of course he is known to be kind of a clutz!

 

[likestofish]

I fish in a major river below a dam where snags are constant. Because of that you will loose line. That is why I have to re-spool often and that is why it costs too much for me.

I do like power pro and I believe its the best braid but I just personally dont use it for my reason as stated.

Also, my biggest fish, a 7ft nurse shark, was caught on basic 15lb Trilene. It was a 3hr+ fight. Just because I landed the fish, it doesnt mean I think its the best.

The last rod I broke was when I throwing a Texas rigged lizard, had a tap, set the hook and broke a G-loomis rod, it was 50lb PP and a fish at most 2lbs! I dont know many tourny anglers who havnt broken a rod with braid, it just happens. Heck, I saw Takishi Omori (I spelled that wrong Im sure) break a rod a couple weeks ago on TV. Of course he is known to be kind of a clutz!

50 pound braid is ultra kill for any situation besides big game or deep sea. And fifteens pounds will stop or at least turn a big catfish(15+).

 

[JD7.62]

50 pound braid is ultra kill for any situation besides big game or deep sea. And fifteens pounds will stop or at least turn a big catfish(15+).

Oh, I guess from fishing with more then a few people who make their living bass fishing they are all wrong in using heavy line for worming and jigging. My bad.

 

[likestofish]

Oh, I guess from fishing with more then a few people who make their living bass fishing they are all wrong in using heavy line for worming and jigging. My bad.

Well thats pretty much dropping a bait and jerking the fish out of there

 

[JD7.62]

Well thats pretty much dropping a bait and jerking the fish out of there

You dont do any serious bass fishing from a boat do you? Heavy line is essential for pitching a jig in dense cover.

 

[likestofish]

You dont do any serious bass fishing from a boat do you? Heavy line is essential for pitching a jig in dense cover.

i fish sunken trees from a small john boat with 6 pound test fireline using weedless. I like to give the fish a chance. Anyways if you used lighter line the line might snap instead of the rod.