19 hours ago, dallasdb said:

NOW THIS makes sense. I don't usually do things just because everyone is doing it  

I need to understand it and honestly it needs to make sense why I'm doing something before I do it.

I don't like doing things blindly.

Thanks for all the responses so far!

Not so sure this is correct.   Black is the absorption of all light, but you only need reflection of light to see a color. Black is one of the highest contrast colors there are and stands out very well in all shades of water.    In fact most all colors turn to a shade of gray/black after several feet in the water column.  

I just run the line over a spike it marker as it fades. Never understood caring enough about line visibilty to run a sharpie over the line but not caring about the strong smell off a sharpie potentially giving negative cues to fish.