Ice Fishing Line

[Bow-Dude]

I invested in a couple of inline ice fishing reels for this winters fishing expeditions with my wife.  I have never paid a lot of attention to the line I put on the reel until tonight.  My son gave us some 6 lb test florescent orange and green monofilament line to install.  I started the process and noticed how much stretch the monofilament had.  I checked my other reels and the stretch is much less.  I have always purchased quality line in the past but nor really paid a lot of attention to what its qualities are. I normally use Berkley Tri-line either 4 or 6 lb test.  This got me doing some research, braided verses non braided, versus fluorocarbon, verses monofilament.  I bought some braided line and put on a reel several years ago when we went to the gorge, but did not care for it.  Braided has changed a lot since then.  Maybe it is time to try it again.  My wife seems to loose a lot of fish at the hole and I am sure it is because the hook is not set deep enough or not at all.  My son used this line on his new reel last winter and lost fish after fish at the hole all night. He finally started pulling so hard to set the hook that I thought he was going to rip their lips off. I am sure the line stretch was a contributor to his woe. I have been re-thinking the whole process and have decided that perhaps getting a non stretch line would be good.  New reels, new poles, now new line.  Give me your best recommendations.