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.

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 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!

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.

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

Well if you ask me it would seem that you decided for whatever reason to join this thread to see if you can pick a argument. You started off with breaking your rod while setting on a 2lbs fish using 50lbs test. The line you used was differently not matched to the rod! Why is that, I mean your telling us later on that you fish Bass with guys that make there living catching LMB. Why would you break a rod and almost your wrist setting a hook on a baitfish, sorry in Florida if it ain't 5lbs it ain't worth talking about.

Come on dude why bother to come in here and bother with us non professionals. Maybe cause you wanna try an show off or your looking for an argument or your lonely. I took a look guy and while I do see that paddlefish can get pretty large I don't see where everyone is pulling a 80lbs out of the water where ever there fishing. Looks more like they average around 20~40lbs. So you maybe searching for a record fish or something, but as those make my living fishing fishermen will tell you. Theres nothing like taking a record fish on 10lbs test line braid or not. My god-son got many of nice size Carp and so do many other people, but he also has 22lbs Carp on 4lbs test, now thats saying something.

According to you, you have all these know it all buddies that you fish with and they make there livings catching LMB. Well if you gonna go with what they tell you and I too go with that fishing in Florida alot. One needs strong line to get fish out of cover and heavy weeds, that's the reason I use 30lbs PP and yes I fish from boats and land and I fish alot more top water first choice, then worms or whatever soft bait they'll hit after. I have never lost a fish do to the line/braid strength period! And I do alot of saltwater Striper fishing and they can range from 20lbs~60 average on big cows. When I used mono I used 20lbs test and now that I use braid I can afford to go 100lbs. But I have never ever had a break off, and I've never been spooled either.

People that break there rods on a set don't know how to set there drag, period! Especially on a 2lbs fish. The first time I used braid I can remember ripping a fish out the water on a set, but my rod didn't break. I started this thread because I love PP I even made up a saying that fish yell when I go fishing. But seriously dude if these people you fish with make there living that way great for you but you need to ask them to share then, because when you are a pro PP doesn't cost anything at all. Stick a decal on the boat and it's free.

If you wanna come in a add your imput chat about your likes and dislikes of PP ask questions and hopefully get answers thats great. You wanna argument or you wanna tell people that you fish with the pros and you know this and that and you do it all in just hours per week, C'mon I didn't fall off a boat yesterday. I fish more in one day than you in a week and I bet, me and my fishing buddy catch more LMB too.

 

[JD7.62]

Where did I argue? I posted my opinion on braid. I was using a custom made heavy action G-loomis rod, the line was fine for the rod, it was fluke. But, when you fish braid, you have a better chance of breaking a rod. That is all. Im just stating my and many other people I know have had this experience.

Im having a hard time with your grammar but I think in one paragraph you are agreeing with me, heavy line is essential for some techniques. I also agree that using light line is fun but there is a point where you simply cant fish light line.

Im not sure where you get your paddlefish information from but we have some very large ones here in the Ohio River. While Ive never landed one over 50lbs Ive hooked enough monsters and seen enough monsters to know why it only takes a matter of seconds for these big fish to spool you when behind a raging dam. Hell a 4ft section of a barge rope will spool you in that current and yes Ive fought a rope before!

I do alot of saltwater fishing too. My family owns a boat in Pensacola. On the boat we fish mostly offshore but I do a bit of wading and pier/bridge fishing too. In saltwater anything and everything can go wrong. Ive had trolling baits (Mann's Stretch 25s) break in half and we usually use light line for those (30lb class) and the baits broke before the line did! Ive had 5lb redfish break off and just a few casts later land a 20lb red. I just cant believe you say youve never had a break off. I mean you could be using 1,000,000,000lb test and it wont last two seconds around an oyster bed or a barnacle covered pylon.

Im sorry you get so offensive that some one doesnt like your beloved PP as much as you. Ive previously stated its the best braid out there and when I use braid its PP but I just simply dont use braid that often for the reasons Ive been saying.

Im sorry my experience is different then yours...

 

[Tequila]

Where did I argue? I posted my opinion on braid. I was using a custom made heavy action G-loomis rod, the line was fine for the rod, it was fluke. But, when you fish braid, you have a better chance of breaking a rod. That is all. Im just stating my and many other people I know have had this experience.

Im having a hard time with your grammar but I think in one paragraph you are agreeing with me, heavy line is essential for some techniques. I also agree that using light line is fun but there is a point where you simply cant fish light line.

Im not sure where you get your paddlefish information from but we have some very large ones here in the Ohio River. While Ive never landed one over 50lbs Ive hooked enough monsters and seen enough monsters to know why it only takes a matter of seconds for these big fish to spool you when behind a raging dam. Hell a 4ft section of a barge rope will spool you in that current and yes Ive fought a rope before!

I do alot of saltwater fishing too. My family owns a boat in Pensacola. On the boat we fish mostly offshore but I do a bit of wading and pier/bridge fishing too. In saltwater anything and everything can go wrong. Ive had trolling baits (Mann's Stretch 25s) break in half and we usually use light line for those (30lb class) and the baits broke before the line did! Ive had 5lb redfish break off and just a few casts later land a 20lb red. I just cant believe you say youve never had a break off. I mean you could be using 1,000,000,000lb test and it wont last two seconds around an oyster bed or a barnacle covered pylon.

Im sorry you get so offensive that some one doesnt like your beloved PP as much as you. Ive previously stated its the best braid out there and when I use braid its PP but I just simply dont use braid that often for the reasons Ive been saying.

Im sorry my experience is different then yours...

Ok I see it differently than you, just like 1,000,000,000 test is a cable and it would last running through barnacles and or an over grown oyster bed. But PP differently wouldn't, that's why when I fish these areas I use PP and I keep and line off the bottom and I keep my fingers crossed. A true break off where the fish runs you around a rock, pylon or some other object that has shape things growing on it.

Dude I can't really remember this happening because when I fish for what I fish for I know what I need to stop that fish. But depends on what you call a break off just last June I had a 36~40 inch Snook snap a spinnerbait right after the bend, the line was still tied on to the bait but the spinnerbait broke. But no the line never broke. And for me I would rather have a fish spool me than have it break my line. If a fish breaks your line then you didn't have you line or reel set right, if it manages to spool you, then it was bigger than you or your reel could handle.

YEs for me and my buddy you need a heavy or at least strong line for LMB fishing in heavy cover. Hell my god-son uses 100lbs test PP when fishing Blackfish, this fish the battle last the first 3 minutes. If the fish can get into the rocks your screwed, especially if your fishing from a boat. Because waiting the fish out isn't an option, the rocking of the boat can cause your line to snap or
your rod.

But if your sitting in a little John boat with time to waste, then you may have no trouble with lighter line. Dude I'm just saying that you come on the thread with oh I broke a rod you didn't say it was a fluke, you said I broke my rod on a 2lbs bass using 50lbs test PP. Then out of know where you come up with I know how to fish and I fish for 80lbs paddlefish at the base of a dam and there are many shape rocks and 30lbs~50lbs PP or anything else for that matter wouldn't

stop and paddlefish they'll spool you in a heart beat blah blah blah. Oh yeah and did I say that the guys I fish with are professional Bass fishermen, that don't get there gear for free but know alot more than you could ever know.

This is what I'm saying very simply: I don't care who you fish with, for a person that claims to only fish 6 hrs per week. And who broke some fancy rod on a 2lbs Bass while using 50lbs PP and almost snapped his wrist in the process, and who has professional fishing buddies. You started off asking questions like a beginner and then quickly turned around and started snapping at people about this and that and I'm almost a pro myself because I fish with pros.

Yes your experience is different than mine.

 

[duster1971]

powerpro is the best line i have ever used i baught some 100lb for my snagging rig and have strightend 10 ot treble hooks trying to get un stuck all my buds yell for me when they have a bigt fish or get hung up on a log cause i can usualy pull it in without worry i have hooked into fish that break it i just stand in aw when it happens cause u know it was huge i used to use 50lb mono but after power

 

[duster1971]

i fish below a hydro dam and have never been spoold by a fish even a paddle fish and ive seen guys using 30 pound mono line catch paddle fish up to48 pounds and not have to much of a fight i caut a 30 pownder and felt sorry for it cause i was using my big snagging setup with 100 pound power pro it didnt even put up enoph figth i thaught i had a small channel cat on the line since then if i try for paddles i just use my small rig so i can have a fight but a 30 pond paddle fish is pretty massive just dont seem to have much fight compaird to a 30 pound flat head.

 

[Tequila]

i fish below a hydro dam and have never been spoold by a fish even a paddle fish and ive seen guys using 30 pound mono line catch paddle fish up to48 pounds and not have to much of a fight i caut a 30 pownder and felt sorry for it cause i was using my big snagging setup with 100 pound power pro it didnt even put up enoph figth i thaught i had a small channel cat on the line since then if i try for paddles i just use my small rig so i can have a fight but a 30 pond paddle fish is pretty massive just dont seem to have much fight compaird to a 30 pound flat head.

Thanx for the imput, I've never fished paddle fish so I don't know how they fight or run.

 

[duster1971]

alot of guys say paddls fight hard but im a 350 pound guy so it takes quite a bit to seem like a fight to me i was thinking of doing some fishing in florida how do those red fish and tarpon fight

 

[Tequila]

alot of guys say paddls fight hard but im a 350 pound guy so it takes quite a bit to seem like a fight to me i was thinking of doing some fishing in florida how do those red fish and tarpon fight

On lite tackle redfish can be alot of fun, I haven't done any Tarpon fishing myself yet but I hear and from what I see in vids they great fighters. A big guy like yourself mite enjoy Goliath Grouper fishing. Goliath Goupers just in the bays can be more than 300lbs themselves. I haven't done GG fishing either but from those that I know who have and vids on youtube I can tell you these fish put up a tremendous fight. I'm sure they blow paddlefishing away easily, I'm told they use reels set with 100lbs drag on 200lbs test. But GG fishing is strictly catch and release. Or you may wanna try Stugeon fishing, now thats something I would like to do also.

 

[likestofish]

On lite tackle redfish can be alot of fun, I haven't done any Tarpon fishing myself yet but I hear and from what I see in vids they great fighters. A big guy like yourself mite enjoy Goliath Grouper fishing. Goliath Goupers just in the bays can be more than 300lbs themselves. I haven't done GG fishing either but from those that I know who have and vids on youtube I can tell you these fish put up a tremendous fight. I'm sure they blow paddlefishing away easily, I'm told they use reels set with 100lbs drag on 200lbs test. But GG fishing is strictly catch and release. Or you may wanna try Stugeon fishing, now thats something I would like to do also.

Another thing is you cannot put a goliath in your boat that is legaly called possesion so you have to leave them in the water