FishinG LIne colour, Does it make a difference

[timddo]

I'm just wondering if Fishing line colour will effect hookup rates. Most of the time i use some clear leader about 50cm from the hook. We are talking mono here.

I have some ultra flouro and the normal white , green line.



Braid wise i half pink, blue, green, white

[Micadogs]

Hi Timmdo, I mainly fish deep water 60 metres +. I have used every colour of leader blue, green and clear and it seems to make no difference. I understand that colour dissappears at approx 25 - 30 metres (from my diving days) in any case, so at these depths colour makes no difference. The same could be said for flurocarbon, I think it is meant to have the same refraction properties as water. It would make no difference in deeper water as there is no light to refract. I only have one leader that I use in the esturary, clear flurocrabon, so others will need to answer your questions in shallow water.

When I was first getting into braid, I didn't know about using a mono leader and always used braid as my leader in very shallow water 1-2 metres and still caught all the bread and butter fish. I was mainly using the Fireline in smoke (one of the first popular braids many moons ago). It seems that when I changed to mono/fluro leader I was catching about the same. I wouldnlt use braid as a leader anymore (haven't for 10+years) but just an observation.

In relation to braid colour, I know use Daiwa Saltiga Boat, with multiple colours to knwo how far down I am. It works great except for the fact that, like many males, I am colour deficient (some call it colour blindness). Daiwa have put two colours that look very similar next to each other and sometimes it is hard to tell. Prior to that I always used Fins in yellow, cause it was the easiest colour for me to see.

Regards Adam

[insider]

I remember a charter I took out of Botany Bay and they used a salmon coloured line and swore black and blue that it was the line that got more hook ups than any other they used.

[the baker]

Hey Timddo,

The flouro yellow breaks down quite quickly from the uv factor, this is a real problem when trolling. This has happen over 12 months, went from 8kg to 4kg.

Dave.

[nigelr]

Not if you use a clear trace, in my opinion.
Might well be just superstition, but when using a high-vis main line, I always like to use a 'clear' trace or shock leader of the appropriate length.

[=Wookie=]

I always use a length of leader from my braid, not sure if it makes a difference though.

[004dam]

The only reason line color matters to me is so i can see where it is in the water for lures.plastics.

[trout head]

Here ya go , new I had it some where.color_spectrum_water.gif

[daki23]

For fresh water fishing it does make a difference in my experience, seems like i get less bites on fluro then normal mono, however if you use clear leader it eliminates the problem somehow.