Crankbait Line

[bigfruits]

I use 10 and 12# Sniper FC

[onetime]

I love me some Big Game, but not on cranks, I use 12lb Invisx for anything from a KVD 1.0 to a 10XD.

[BassThumb]

10-lb Yo Zuri Hybrid is the best cranking line I've used. I spent all of last season and about $50 in fluorocarbon to realize that there are minimal advantages to using it for cranks. I'll be going back to Hybrid this season.

[SWVABass]

I'm on the boat with everyone fishing yo zuri. I used to fish straight fc for cranks and switched last year and couldn't be happier. I don't use any backing on my reel either with it it. Held up plenty well in my rocky lake here. 600 yd spool is like 12 bucks at tw.

[GreenGhostMan]

I'm testing out fluoro for the first time this season on two rods... My crankbait setup and my jig/texas rig rod... After a couple of outings, I'm struggling with it.  Not the easiest to cast with and while the sensitivity is better, it feels cheap almost.  Not going to strip it off just yet, but I don't know if fluoro is for me.  May have to go back to braid with fluoro leader.

 

I use KVD line & lure, but am still getting a few backlashes and can't get the distance I want because i have the breaks turned up.  Using Lew's Tournament MBs.

[IndianaFinesse]

Have any of you guys tried braid for trolling cranks? Seems like the extra feel would be beneficial.

[J Francho]

3 minutes ago, IndianaFinesse said:

Have any of you guys tried braid for trolling cranks? Seems like the extra feel would be beneficial.

 

I don't like it, you hang a crank, and you might not realize it, if it's in a rod holder.  The trout and salmon guys up here are big on it, though.  There's plenty that like throwing cranks on braid.  I think it affects the deflection negatively, but that's debatable.  I don't buy into this whole, "set the bait too fast, or rip out hooks" argument.  I'll bet most fish poorly hooked on the outside were hooked when the fish was spitting the bait, and the angler never detected the bit. 

[BassThumb]

11 hours ago, IndianaFinesse said:

Have any of you guys tried braid for trolling cranks? Seems like the extra feel would be beneficial.

I don't troll crankbaits for bass, so I can't comment of the use of braid in that sense.

 

However, braid can be really handy when tossing crankbaits around grass, particularly lipless crankbaits. You can easily feel the bait begin to hang up and then give it a solid rip, freeing it from grass and triggering strikes. This works best on a heavier fast-action rod. I use my swimjig rod with this technique. Heavy-power, 7' 3", 30lb straight braid.

[IndianaFinesse]

10 hours ago, J Francho said:

 

I don't like it, you hang a crank, and you might not realize it, if it's in a rod holder.  The trout and salmon guys up here are big on it, though.  There's plenty that like throwing cranks on braid.  I think it affects the deflection negatively, but that's debatable.  I don't buy into this whole, "set the bait too fast, or rip out hooks" argument.  I'll bet most fish poorly hooked on the outside were hooked when the fish was spitting the bait, and the angler never detected the bit. 

Thanks for the reply.  I wasn't planning on trolling with a several rods in holders, just one rod in my hand.  I haven't spent much time trolling cranks for bass, but I plan to this year.  The one time I did try it, I was disappointed with how little feel I had.  I couldn't even feel if the crank hit a branch or ticked the bottom, which is a big thing if you're trying to follow a contour line with the lure bumping bottom. So I am considering trying braid to see if it helped the sensitivity.

[Silas]

Too much ado about nothing here:  buy a 600yard spool of YOZURI in 8,10,12lb and change lines every season and be done with it. 

 

Ive found no downsides to this approach. 

[Angry John]

5 minutes ago, Silas said:

Too much ado about nothing here:  buy a 600yard spool of YOZURI in 8,10,12lb and change lines every season and be done with it. 

 

Ive found no downsides to this approach. 

This!!!  I am getting away from flouro due to moving away from the gin clear water in WA.  There is a time and place for flouro and i have been there.  To many people boy into the hype!!!!

[RoLo]

On 2/23/2017 at 4:16 PM, Zeeter said:

Along these lines, when you guys use braid do you back it with mono?

 

Though nylon and fluorocarbon are compressible, braid is virtually incompressible.

For this reason, a spool of pure braid is liable to rotate on the spool arbor.

This is easily avoided by simply wrapping electrical tape around the arbor,

I detest the connection knot between the backing & topping,

so I'll often fill the entire spool with braid (good for years)

 

Roger

[Zeeter]

8 hours ago, RoLo said:

 

Though nylon and fluorocarbon are compressible, braid is virtually incompressible.

For this reason, a spool of pure braid is liable to rotate on the spool arbor.

This is easily avoided by simply wrapping electrical tape around the arbor,

I detest the connection knot between backing & topping, so I fill the entire spool with braid (good for years)

 

Roger

 

On the Chronarch I was spooling they have a line insert that goes directly out the other end of the spool. No trying to line it up and find the hole on the other end. Looks like it was made for the very purpose of tying the line on. 

[J Francho]

11 hours ago, IndianaFinesse said:

Thanks for the reply.  I wasn't planning on trolling with a several rods in holders, just one rod in my hand.  I haven't spent much time trolling cranks for bass, but I plan to this year.  The one time I did try it, I was disappointed with how little feel I had.  I couldn't even feel if the crank hit a branch or ticked the bottom, which is a big thing if you're trying to follow a contour line with the lure bumping bottom. So I am considering trying braid to see if it helped the sensitivity.

 

I see guys trolling with way too much line out. Anything more then a long cast, and you get a bow in the line.  That bow in the line is why you lose feel.

[J Francho]

And there isn't a better feeling than having a fish strike a trolled bait, almost ripping the rod from your hands.

[RoLo]

1 hour ago, Zeeter said:

 

On the Chronarch I was spooling they have a line insert that goes directly out the other end of the spool. No trying to line it up and find the hole on the other end.

Looks like it was made for the very purpose of tying the line on. 

   

 

   That's for sure.

   You can also forego built-in line holes by throwing a spool noose around the arbor (stop knot & overhand loop).

   then back-up the braid with any heavy diameter mono you've got laying around.

 

 

   

[BassThumb]

18 hours ago, RoLo said:

 

Though nylon and fluorocarbon are compressible, braid is virtually incompressible.

For this reason, a spool of pure braid is liable to rotate on the spool arbor.

This is easily avoided by simply wrapping electrical tape around the arbor,

I detest the connection knot between the backing & topping,

so I'll often fill the entire spool with braid (good for years)

 

Roger

 

Wrap a small piece of electrical tape over the knot between the backing and topping. You'll never feel it again; it's like it's not even there.

 

This is an ice fishing technique. Sometimes we only put 30-40' of topping on a reel since we're fishing in 10-20' of water.