Beach Fishing Lines- Your Thaughts

[STOCK]

Hi guys,

What are your thaughts for line size and type for beach fishing chasing jewies with whole yakkas and squid?

Ive just bought a penn captiva cv8000 and some hercules 80Lb braid and am thinking i went a little overboard with the line size, afterall there are no snags at the beach to give me reason to have to reef the jewie outa water?

[Guest Big-Banana]

I've always had tortue on all my beach and rock reels. Maxima is also really good stuff. Never bothered with braid off the beach.

[TheDiko]

80lb braid is far too much for off the beach, if you're going for Jewies you don't need any more than 20lb line. This is thinner and will give a much greater cast.

My mate has that reel in 4000 and it seems worth the money, only thing is it doesn't lay the line Super Slow so there is a reduction in the cast there aswell.

IFS

[Davy]

Ive pretty much just been introduced to beach fishing through the social, but starting to get the hang of it now. i might get into trouble for suggesting this , but even at the beach i like to fish as light as possible. i only use 12 pound platypus line, and maybe 20 -30 pound leader on a cheapo Daiwa crossfire 4000. it does the trick for me, its handled salmon and biggish tailor just fine. i love it! havnt been out at the beach enough to get busted off by something bigger yet, but when i do, i might upgrade

Cheers

Davy

[STOCK]

Bugger =/ i had a feeling 80lb braid was going a bit too far (i have a habit of overkill when it comes to lines). Looks like ill need to find the receipt and swop for somthing lighter, quite a lot lighter

[shane87]

Best to stay away from braid on the beach particularly with jew. Having no stretch can become a real problem when trying to wash a good jew up the beach. You will find that you will pull the hooks on to many fish using braid on the beach.

Cheers Shane.