01-04-2003, 06:06 AM
I normaly put no more than 50 feet of new 4 or 2 pound test line over top of my old heavy 6 pound test that I use in the summer. In all my days of ice fishing I have yet had a fish drag all my 4 pound line off the reel but even if it did i still have the backing conected to the 4 pound test.
with 4 pound test I never use it on any thing bigger than a bass cisco or trout. when I am fishing for the bigger fish I have a seperate spool or dedicated rod and reel set up with 12 pound test for walleye lakers and pike.
as for what the reel will handle, stick to what it is rated for, I have striped out a dozen reels putting heaver line than what the reel is rated for and have striped gears burned barings and worn out the drags from trying to land a fish that is just way out of class for that particular reel.
there are pleanty of inexpencive reels you can put heavery test line on with out jepordising your ultra lites.
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with 4 pound test I never use it on any thing bigger than a bass cisco or trout. when I am fishing for the bigger fish I have a seperate spool or dedicated rod and reel set up with 12 pound test for walleye lakers and pike.
as for what the reel will handle, stick to what it is rated for, I have striped out a dozen reels putting heaver line than what the reel is rated for and have striped gears burned barings and worn out the drags from trying to land a fish that is just way out of class for that particular reel.
there are pleanty of inexpencive reels you can put heavery test line on with out jepordising your ultra lites.
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