Ok another question on braid color. I saw a couple videos on YouTube about braided line color and seems dark green braid...which is what I think I'm using...shows up the most. I'm currently using Power Pro moss green. Is there another braided line that is lighter in color that PP? Thanks in advance.

I generally use leaders, so I like hi-viz line I can see.  I have some black and dark green that I have run without leaders, but they are both nearly invisible to me, so can be frustrating. 

I use Hi-Viz braid with a FC leader. If fishing straight braid I usually go with the dark colors. I also have heard that some will use hi-viz braid and use a marker to color the first few feet. I haven't tried that.

If used with leaders, I don't think braid colors matter much. Unless you want to see it all the time, then hi-vis braids may be better. There're many different braid colors on the market: different shades of green of course, white, black, hi-vis yellow, gray, pink, blue, rainbow color metered lines for saltwater, ...

General use, I'm on either Sufix 832 in Lo-Vis Green or (when I can afford it) Seaguar Smackdown in Stealth Gray

 

Only time I use hi-vis braid is for finesse where you have to watch the line...which is becoming less frequent as with a good-sensitive braid and FC leader, you'll more feel it than see it. In that case it's Sufix 832 in Hi-Vis Yellow or Sufix Revolve in Neon Lime.

I prefer a light gray color.  I mostly fish open water, or rocky banks, and the color of the water is a light grey.  Around vegetation, I would prefer dark green.  I always wonder why people take a black felt tip marker and color the last few feet of their braid black in order to blend in better, then will use a black worm because it is more visible.  Which is it? Is back more visible for baits, but less for line?

 

Truth be told, I care more about which shade of purple my worm is or if my chartreuse crankbait is more green than yellow, than the color of my line and the bass probably don't care about the shade of purple amount of green in chartreuse, or line color.  

3 hours ago, newapti5 said:

If used with leaders, I don't think braid colors matter much. Unless you want to see it all the time, then hi-vis braids may be better. There're many different braid colors on the market: different shades of green of course, white, black, hi-vis yellow, gray, pink, blue, rainbow color metered lines for saltwater, ...

Same is true with fly lines - it's more important to see the line than to fret over fish IQ.  

Personally I think too much is made of the use of color in most everything we talk about. 
I like red hooks at certain times, shad colored cranks and orange bellied frogs, bone with orange or red for top waters. June bug, watermelon red, red/shad, white or black for most plastics. That’s it 

 

I use grey or green braided line. 

Don’t use hi vis braid because I don’t finesse fish. 
I think camo, black or sharpie colored line is a gimmick 

My point is that we all have or favorites for some reason or another and how we justify it is a different as our choices. 
 

 

 

 

Mike

It may be all in my head, but when I switched to straight 832 Camo, I did not see any reduction in bites and/or catches. Of course the water color in Texas differs from most.

The reason fluoro makes a difference over mono is because mono absorbs UV and creates a UV shadow, while fluoro transmits UV, making it transparent with no shadow.  

This alone suggests a bright-colored line is less visible to a fish looking up than a dark-colored line.  

Remember when Nanofil was introduced?  It was white.

I see A LOT of pros out there throwing pink line on their spinning rods now.

 

Not sure if it's a certain brand or they just like the color.

 

Whether they like it or they are just getting paid to use it, your guess is as good as mine.

 

But it seems pretty popular.

11 minutes ago, HawkeyeSmallie said:

Whether they like it or they are just getting paid to use it

"I'll pick Door #2, Monty."

22 minutes ago, HawkeyeSmallie said:

I see A LOT of pros out there throwing pink line on their spinning rods now.

 

Not sure if it's a certain brand or they just like the color.

 

Whether they like it or they are just getting paid to use it, your guess is as good as mine.

 

But it seems pretty popular.

I have pink Gliss which I like quite a bit.  Very visible to me.  Is it less viz to the bass than bright greens and yellows?  No clue.

I’ve used clear/blue fluorescent line from the creeks/rivers/ponds/lakes of southern Indiana to central Florida to the Gulf of Mexico to Puerto Rico.. thousands of fish including an 11.2 on Lochloosa. A 1/3 of my rigs still have it. Use what you like and just fish. 
 

FYI: Denny Brauer used it all thru the 80’s & 90’s as an accomplished flip&pitch expert, if he thought it mattered, do you think he’d use it? 

If you're in a scenario where the fish don't care about the braid color (dirty water for instance) then it doesn't matter what color the braid is.

 

If you're in a scenario where the fish ARE twitchy about the color of your braid (clear water finesse) then you're using a leader anyway.

 

In short, the braid color doesn't matter so use the one that you like and can see.  

I throw a line I can see.  zero clue what a bass can see.  

 

usually Ghost Suffix which if I am being honest, is really white.  come on, it is exactly white.

 

using up some pink, which is so easy for me to see. 

If you get white x9 or suffix it will turn the same color as the water eventually.

I went straight braid this year, trying grey color. No difference in bites. Got tired of line memory. I like it and will continue next season. 

I prefer white braid over any other, but only on presentations i use a fluoro leader on, which is almost everything i fish with. If going straight braid, and fish in the weeds, then camo or dark green is usually what i use.

I threw some Seagar Smackdown on my new topwater combo this year.

 

Bought the stealth gray.

 

It didn't take long for it to turn into almost a white color.

 

IDK, I think I care more about it than the fish because they keep biting my popper.

I used the original white Spyderwire for many, many years without issue. I now use Smackdown in stealth grey which has turned more light grey(ish) and has not made any noticeable difference.

 

it depends entirely on the backround.