FireLine question

[fishing_nut]

it all depends on what you are fishing for i'v used fire line for a number of years now ..
come to find out it is starting to cut my line guides on my rods so i went to spider wire ..
hopes  that might help the problem..

[Mackdaddy21]

I've found the stuff very difficult to cut at all. The 14/6 fireline actually works good as pike leader. Never had a bite off.

Tyler

[Water Wolf]

 Thank you everyone for your responses, most informative. I can't wait to give try.
 Hopefully the weather will coperate and the ice will be off by opening day.

Water Wolf

[Pikeguy]

I will make a suggestion. Buy the "braid blades" scissors that they sell. Those things will cut fireline like it was mono.

[Buckski]

While trooling had some fireline damage the my reel, where the bail meets the arm that houses it. It dug in and create a groove that the line gets stuck into. I used some expoy and close the opening. Now I check that reel and how the line is riding from bail to spool.
I do not find that jigging with fire line is a problem, it is how you set the hook and play fish. The low strech show be helpful connecting more power to the hookset. It can be too much and create a larger hole from the hookset, if you go slack=lost fish. Not TV hookset.
I no longer use it for a leader ice fishing that experiment failed horribly 30lb&45lb, steel quick strike.
Tying knots can be a pain.
Yes I also use duct tape to the reel first to keep it from spinning.