Kingfisher wrote on Feb 17^th, 2011 at 7:51am:

So MT am I correct in assuming that you do not use a leader? Because for anyone using a steel or titanium leader as I do then line visibility is of far less importance. Like Jaximus I use my spool of 8lb mono for finesse fishing only.

I spent last summers trip trolling and was never nipped off once. I know it can and does happen but usually only once or twice per trip. If large walleyes are my goal you will likely find me running 6lb even with the deep divers. That puts a lot of strain on the line and all has to be perfect from fresh line to not tying to a split ring to having the 8' steelhead rod which loads very nicely and gently to protect the line.

If traveling is more my goal then I up the lb test as to not spend so long in landing the fish. I will not have any 6lb test in WCPP as I don't want to get bogged down.

If big Pike are the goal I will run one of 3 kinds of leaders. Either a 100lb FC leader or I will build a single strand leader myself. Very stealthy the single strand with a minimum of hardware. If the fish are abundant however they will bend the single strand and I will go to the titanium especially if I need to make time. I had the bass pro shops titanium leaders fail BTW [smiley=thumbdown.gif]