Flourocarbon Leaders

[therealdeal]

Hi All: I am coming up from Florida soon and was interested to hear your thoughts on Flourocarbon leaders for fishing the Flowage and other small lakes.

Here in Florida I use a braided line and attach a Flourocarbon leader at about 30lb strength. This works great for Bass as well as for some saltwater species.

Im sure it will work great for most fishing up north but would a pike or musky cut through it?

[St Croix Kid]

most commercial fluoro leaders are at least 100 lb test.. 30 lb would get bitten thru

[Ruff Fish]

Hi All: I am coming up from Florida soon and was interested to hear your thoughts on Flourocarbon leaders for fishing the Flowage and other small lakes.

Here in Florida I use a braided line and attach a Flourocarbon leader at about 30lb strength. This works great for Bass as well as for some saltwater species.

Im sure it will work great for most fishing up north but would a pike or musky cut through it?

I've been using exclusively fluorocarbon leaders for Musky for the past 8 years or so. 30 is too light. I think mine are all 80 - 120. Never had a bite off. I'm not an expert, and I don't fish nearly as much as I'd like, or as much as some other guys do.

[BretRobert1]

Been using fluro for everything but WTD topwaters for years now. For muskies I always go 100 lb plus, but depends on the style of fishing I'm doing. If you get into trolling, I prefer 3 to 4 ft fluro in length and even heavier than what I cast with.

You probably already do this, but I check my fluro leaders religiously for nicks and frays.

-Bret