Fireline for perchin' ?

I'm curious if anyone has experience using Berkley Fireline in the 4 or 6 pound line for panfish.

I'm waaaaaaay behind the curve on this because I mostly fly fish when the ice is gone. But I do rig up for the rare occasion I use my spinning or bait casting outfits and have always had monofiliment. The properties and reviews I've read on Fireline intrigue me - I'm just wondering how it will perform for perch, bluegills or crappies thru the ice. I know one thing, at least you can see it!

I use two pound fireline and I've never ever had a breakoff. I would never consider going back to mono.

In long rod season I bump it up to 4 pound. If I absolutely have to, ill tie a fluoro leader on.

I use the white colored ice line for ice fishing, and the smoke colored regular stuff for the long rod. The more I think about it, I'm pretty sure I use 6 pound instead of 4. It's been a while since put it on.

As I understand it, that is supposed to be one of the advantages to Fireline - it is immune to UV, at least as compared to mono, so you don't have to change it as much.

So, Salty Dog, your observations are the fish don't see, or are at least not bothered by Fireline?

That would be huge for me - its is so cotton picking hard to tie knots - can't tie what you can't see!

Well, I've got all summer to play around with my spinning rods to find out what I like. I'll load one spool with my favorite line right now - Seagaur InvisX and one with Fireline and compare properties.
Then I'll be able to make a better decision when getting my stuff ready for ice fishing 2011/2012.