Best Line for Crappies?

Wondering what your go to line is for Crappies?

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P-line Flouroclear 5LB

X2 on P-line flouroclear in 5lb. Awesome all around line. I also love it for finesse walleye tactics.

4 pound XL. Clear.

robby wrote:

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You fill the whole spool or just make a leader?

bigcrappie wrote:

Here, crappie crappie come and get this flu flu fly…….

Come to this sand bar often?

Sorry, continue. I thought the same thing bigcrappie did when he read the subject.

yellow 4#

Whole spool… thanks for the info

Ashley…. You can save yourself a little change by filling the top 1/2 of the spool with new line, leaving some old line on as backer. You’re only going to use the first 40, maybe 50 yards of line on a spool before things start to become issues with casting so why use all the extra line you’re not going to use?

Most line types work as long as they can cast lures far enough and are of a small diameter. Today I was testing some lures out with Suffix 20# braid / 6# test diameter and casting distance using 1/16 oz jig and plastic was at least 30′. Lure drop rate was fast, strikes easily detected and hook sets solid. Various lure designs did as expected and I never used a leader of another line type.

Mono or fluorocarbon would have done as well in 4-6lb test. The reason for the 20# test braid is for the multi-species of fish I’ll be fishing for tomorrow which include bass and pickerel.

Tom Sawvell wrote:

”Ashley…. You can save yourself a little change by filling the top 1/2 of the spool with new line, leaving some old line on as backer. You’re only going to use the first 40, maybe 50 yards of line on a spool before things start to become issues with casting so why use all the extra line you’re not going to use?”

Very true on this front, am doing this with most everything (braid and mono) I have now…

Spoon Minnow wrote:

”Most line types work as long as they can cast lures far enough and are of a small diameter. Today I was testing some lures out with Suffix 20# braid / 6# test diameter and casting distance using 1/16 oz jig and plastic was at least 30′. Lure drop rate was fast, strikes easily detected and hook sets solid. Various lure designs did as expected and I never used a leader of another line type. Mono or fluorocarbon would have done as well in 4-6lb test. The reason for the 20# test braid is for the multi-species of fish I’ll be fishing for tomorrow which include bass and pickerel.”

And for me, I got hauled out by a bass guy to try to find LMB’s and crappies late May/early June. Started out with very light mono in weeds/wood where I knew I was not going to able to fish with it. Not in my boat, so I didn’t have my line stash with me, only my 10 and 20# floro for leaders. So I tried to spool a bit of 10# floro, knowing it would probably twist up fast and it did!!!

So I grabbed my walleye rod 10/2 powerpro with 20# floro leaders and started catching hawg gills in the cabbage weeds. Tried to downsize the floro to the 10# next time out, but it didn’t work as well as the 20#, so I stayed with 20# and haven’t had a problem in those heavy cover situations.

I am sure that I would in a more open water/ice fishing situation go back to my green 2# Cortland mono!!!

Mark

We were out all day and never caught a single one, I heard they are catching limits at lake XYZ, I’d go there if I were you.

I’ve been using the cheap Zebco 4 pound line for quite a few years now and as long as they continue to make it I will not switch to anything else. I fish for crappies several hundred hours per season from Late April through Late October in a lot of different waterways, many of which have submerged wood, rocks, and zebra mussels by the thousands and have never had an issue with line breakage. I also fish some extremely clear lakes, those in which you can see the bottom in thirty feet of water, and have no problem with the fish seeing the line. And at $3 for 700 yards it a heck of a deal.

15# power pro super slick (4# dia) will cast your light crappie lures 1 mile ha. Its the best braid I have found. If a crappie sniffs your bait at 1 mile out you will feel it with a good rod.

6# nanofil with a 4-6# seaguar flouro-leader