mono or braid on a threadline

[big_george]

G,day fisho,s. ;D
I,ve just bought a pair of penn spinnfisher, 650 and 850. will use them on 7 foot livefiber blanks.I will be using the 650 with 6 to 8 kg tossing slices and the odd bit of trolling baiting.On my baitcasters i love fireline,i,m wondering if mono or braid is the go.?type/brand size colour/ ;D The 850 will be used as more of a heavy 10 kg spin for macs ,trev,s and marlin or what ever happens to fall victim to my offering.What mono or braid would be the go.??? brands / size/colour ??? ;D Like i said I,m a big fan of firerline,I like good stuff.
regards big george. ;)

[Jack_Lives_Here]

Hey George,

I'm dabbling with some 30lb Bionic on my spin outfit. Not caught enough to give a decent report as yet but wait for those longtails to turn up.Before that I was fishing Platypus Platinum.
Used fireline on my smaller spin outfit and it "feathered" very quickly, which I didn't like.

[CHRIS_aka_GWH]

struth george you'll want some backing or a personal loan. The 6500 will easily take 400m+ of braid to spool for casting - the 8500 600m+.

And have your drag set & well maintained to 1/3 cause braid isn't as forgiving nylon when the speedsters hit. Myself, I use Berkley Trilene (nylon) for the job. I only use braid for trolling, not enough $$$ to do otherwise.

chris

[Lachie1]

g'day fellas i use mono on all my rods although have tried braid and its good but bloody expensive :o :o :o. The other reason iuse mono is that i grew up using that and iam used to it and like chris said if u get a big hit and the fish takes off like a bat out of hell it can snap just like that :'(.
Try using platinum or pink they are both good lines.

Cheers, Lachie

[clutter]

I'm a big fan of braid and use on plenty of my outfits. However, when it comes to a large reel for throwing slugs I prefer mono, usually Super 100. Think its a bit more invisible in the water when dragging through schools of fish.

Mick

[big_george]

hi john
i use fire line in flame green. :)
14 pound[breaks at over 30] in the creeks with 45 pound leader. In the dam[faust] 20 pound[over 40] with 2 meters of 70 pound schnider,still lost a few ,cutting the leader.Tie small dubble[ 25-30 turn bim] attach leader with a reverse albright. Don,t use snaps,attach lure with loop knott ;)Swano used 40 pound spider wire at the begining of the trip[ approx 2 yaers old] i was prety impressed.After a few lost fish and shorting in the faust timber he used 20 pound fireline[manly because i had a 1000 yard spool]
mates just turned up to take my 9 year old boy and my self fishing ,gotta go [cod spinning]
catch ya regards george
Ps swano was going to memail you with the koolabung lures

[big_george]

Thanks fisho,s
For all the help with regards to filling the spinnfishers.
catch ya latter.
big george

[BOMBER]

Hey Big George,

Have got some 30lb Bionic on my 850 spinfisher on a 7' spinstick use this for Tuna and mackerel out in the bay on raider jigs works a treat.

Regards,

THE BOMBER

[big_george]

Thanks bomber ;D
Have been out of town working[you know the feeling]. Working for another 5 days at narromine,saving lives.[Building rods]Fished last tuesday in the macquarie river .Landed 5 murry cod.Ranged in size.54cm-74cm or 6pounds to 10 pounds.Went out on saturday morning,same location.4 cod ranging from 12 pound to 19.All fish caught on lures.[665 loomis]Will put the photo,s on the web when i get home next monday.
regards big george

[BOMBER]

Hi George,

Thought you must have been away by the times that show on your posts, some great cod amongst that lot would love to catch a decent cod have caught a small one about 10 years ago now in the Condamine River it went 4lb but a bigger one would be great will have to get around to it one day, hope all is well and keep up the good work.

Regards,

THE BOMBER