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Location: Hoges Store, VA | Any tips on how to keep your rod and reel from icing up? My rod eyes and the guide on my reel are the worst places for gathering ice while I'm fishin. Don't know if there's any way to minimize it or not. Thanks in advance! |
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| Don't know if it's the best but spraying with a cooking spray like Pam keeps the reel and guides ice free for quite a while. We use it Steelhead fishing and it works good and can be re-aplied as needed.
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| somebody needs to make a lake season rod specificly for this,,,less guides and much 'bigger' diameter so they ice less,,the rod would be less efficent casting wise but your mostly lobbing big stuff anyway
Edited by happy hooker 2/28/2008 1:37 PM
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| When its very cold like that, mono seems to be a much better choice for me! |
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| I use wd40 and it works great. Its probably not the best thing to use since its going in the water, but then again, its the Fox River. |
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| Select a line that picks up the least water. Another poster suggested mono, which would pick up the least of all, no doubt, and sure would reduce icing. But, I wouldn't use mono, especially that time of year. Mono doesn't have the hook-setting power of the low-stretch Super-braids. In the late fall I'm throwing large soft plastics almost exclusively; it'd be hard to set the hook with a Pounder or other large plastic with stretchy mono.
Late fall is the only time when I prefer a coated line because it picks up the least water of the braids. Late in the season I switch some of my reels to TUF-Line Plus or Spiderwire Stealth and have found both the be pretty dry. I use 100# that time of year. Cortland Masterbraid (Bronzeback) is also pretty dry. I've also heard guys rave about Spiderwire Invisi-braid being bone dry, but I haven't used it.
I've heard the tip about PAM before but haven't tried it. I think I'll give it a go this year. |
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