ranger632 Loc: Near Yosemite Park Ca.

Chuck56 Loc: Texas

No, it should not. Carp and catfish are as dumb as a box of rocks. Bass aren’t very much higher in the IQ department. Bass will hit lures with giant hooks and pieces or wire attached to them. If these fish are hungry they will not care about the line color. They are more interested in what’s on the end of the line....My 2cents..

ranger632 Loc: Near Yosemite Park Ca.

good answer

johnlmac Loc: Salem OR

I use different colored braid main line for trout steelhead and salmon. It makes no difference the color but I use a leader that is clear fluorocarbon and caught 3 salmon both yesterday and today casting spinners with a 3' leader.

GeorgeG Loc: Pensacola

Several years ago I bought a spool of Cajun red line.i kept a close eye on my catches with that versus regular trilene.i definitively had fewer hookups.this was fishing for bluegill and the occasional bass in Indiana's normally stained water

Grizzly 17 Loc: South central Pa

George I use Cajun red never noticed a difference. Watched a show recently about fishing with red. The light passes through the line instead of reflecting off like on solid objects. It wasn't a commercial for Cajun.

froze

Lures do move better with lighter line.

Pixiedog456005 Loc: Maryland

This be true!!!

bapabear Loc: Blaine, Washington

I have switched to white and florescent green on all my rigs. I have tried a lot of line and can see those two colors better than any other line in nearly all light conditions. I just tie on clear floro leader and don't have to worry about what the fish can see. I have 6, 12 and 20 floro. (I use line rather than leader material as it is much cheaper.) That covers everything from mini plugs and 1/64 oz. jigs to frogs and heavy spoons. I have 12 lb. mono green and 30 lb. braid main line. I don't punch through green stuff so don't need heavier gear. For salt I have 80 lb. Power Pro on bait caster and 25 lb. mono on my mooching rods. I don't use braid on the mooching rods as it does not offer enough resistance when jigging iron (Point Wilson Darts) which I use a lot and it still trolls well. That seems to cover everything except fly gear and steel leaders for pike. This seems to be a simple approach to eliminating a lot of question that are still not answered to my satisfaction. Let the brain nerds and want to be brain nerds deal with the rods and cones.

froze

I think fish are smart enough to know when something isn't quite right, it doesn't look like what it should look like in nature. Of course I don't believe they're contemplating it, but more like it's instinct, real fish don't have a long line attached to it, this they see and know something's wrong. How far can we take that? I don't know, but I do know I tried green line that I had been using in algae water in a clear stream and didn't catch anything, so I switched reels to one that had clear line and I started to catch fish, I've had that happen before too. They use to make this glowing purplish bluish mono line quite a few years ago (not sure if they still make this stuff or not) that you could see real easily, and you could see it in the water, it was pretty cool looking, but I had miserable success at catching fish for a long time, then some guy saw me using this stuff and told be to get rid of it and go to clear mono, I did and my catch rate went up. This was on a river where bass was not prominent, supposedly bass can't see the blue or purple line.

So why deal with all the what if's when you can simply use clear fluorocarbon line in any type of water?

Some pros I heard are coloring their braided lines black, so do they know something we don't?

Here is a video, skip ahead to 2:00 in the video to get pass all the BS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IsIJFyH13A

Here is another video showing different weights of lines, skip ahead to 3:17 to get to the meat of the matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4NFKd4lKhw

Who can tell what a fish can see and not see, scientists are saying they can see as well as a human can...how do they determine that? after all it's the brain that interprets what the eyes see, not the eyes, as far as I know we haven't got the technology to go inside a fish's brain and see what it sees.

PierRat904 Loc: St. Augustine

With using a leader I have no concerns about visibility. I do like to be able to distinguish my line from others so a bright line helps when I fish the pier: too many beginners tangle with my lines.

Grizzly 17 Loc: South central Pa

Using a sharpie to make black marks on braid has bee around for yrs. My thinking is if the line tied to lures have any real effect on the fish we wouldn't catch so many. Look at some of the artificial baits that fish hit. We can't believe everything we read. One time the experts say watch what fish are feeding on. Then they say show them something different. I say do what you're confident with n what works for you 👍

froze

I think most lures on the market today are not really designed with catching fish in mind as much as they are design to catch the fishermen!

Grizzly 17 Loc: South central Pa

You got that right. I'm not sure where they come up with all the crazy names. Fish will hit anything once.
Good baits will bring them back if presented proper.

ranger632 Loc: Near Yosemite Park Ca.

Been saying that for years