Line size for fleas

[Bad Habit]

 What size line are people using to keep fleas off? In the past I've been running 30lb test but even that has been covered in fleas the last couple of trips.

[Frogger]

Go to 40lb. 30lb wasn’t enough yesterday. 

[Hillside]

28 minutes ago, Frogger said:

Go to 40lb. 30lb wasn’t enough yesterday. 

 

I had 40lb. Big Game mono on the riggers yesterday out of Sodus and still collected fleas, but they came of easily (I could not "flick" them off though, I had to pull them off with a sliding motion).  If I had fleas on the rigger lines in the past, I could just "flick" them off.

[Frogger]

I put on 40 lb Ande for this am. Worked good.  If I have to go to 50lb or my anchor rope I’m going bass fishing…..

[Hillside]

9 minutes ago, Frogger said:

I put on 40 lb Ande for this am. Worked good.  If I have to go to 50lb or my anchor rope I’m going bass fishing…..

 

Bass on a thumper rod...LOL

[Bad Habit]

I'm with you on the bass fishing. Fishing solo gets to be a pain in the arse checking lines every half hour. Plus running sliders doesn't work out well!!

[john1947]

Ive had little trouble using 40 big game. I think its the hook flea the makes the problem. They usually accumulate in small clumps ,

best bet is maybe use wire line on riggers .

I'm going to mooching soon saves a lot of gas, more fish.

 

 

[kempie]

30lb test but it has to be blood run  sea flee.  it is treated with a substance that makes it slick. not perfect but the best I have found yet. have to use wire cable on the downriggers.

[Fat Trout]

I haven't tried it because my setup works good enough but I'll bet spraying your line with reel magic would help. I use it for light line spinning reel casting to reduce line memory and increase distance.   Its the slickness that you are looking for to keep the little bastards off.  That is in part what the old flea flicker (and Blood run) lines had going for them along with overall diameter.