For all species, cats/stripers/reds/bass.

Do you think or have read any research concering line color and fish habits? What are your thoughts and why?

Right now I have some Berkley Big Game Solar Green and Crystal Blue just sitting there. Was going to throw it on my baitcaster and spincast. I usually use a dark camo green colored line.

*I had this in Lines & Knots catagory but that section doesn't have a lot of traffic.

IMO it does not. Think about the millions and millions of man hours spent fishing since some sort of line was invented. If it made a difference, it would be common knowledge by now and we would all be using the same thing. When you get into the fish, have you noticed that everybody in the boat catches fish no matter what color they're using? I've never seen just one color line catch all the fish.

I try to use hi-visibility line for my purposes, not because of the fish.

last friday there was a noticeable difference in 8# test copoly and 30# braid on Monticello using a dropshot. once I put a flouro leader on the braid.. started catching fish... they wouldnt touch it with straight braid.

For stripers it doesn't seem to make much difference if you are using artificials but when it comes to live bait I would have to say it does. I use Stren. When I use that as leader material I get hits. When I use a 2' flourocarbon leader those rods will get 2-3 hits for every one the regular mono leaders get. I've done this with six rods in the water, 3 with regular mono and 3 with the flourocarbon. The flourocarbon were contantly getting the pull downs. I could put one between two regular leaders and the one in the middle was the busiest of the three.

Catfish don't seem to be that selective about anything and I can't say on the others.

I had same experience with strait braid, just as you mentioned the wouldnt hit it at all till ran a leader.

I think that it matters some time. I use to muskie fish often and throw a white dacron line. Very little stretch (before super braid days) and hi vis. The muskie is at the top of the food chain and it didn't care. Finicky trout on the other hand I use flurocarbon leaders. They are very low vis in the water once wet.

One of my fishing buddies and the local Trout Unlimited chapter VP works in a sporting goods store in the fishing department after re retired as a product engineer. True story: Guy comes in and asks for that new line that is suppose to be invisable, you know the red line. OK, my bud gets him what he wants, the red line. Now he says he wants those colored hooks that are suppose to look like blood since they stimulate the fish to bite, you know the red ones. Bob looks at the guy and just could help himself anymore. So the red line is invisable, but the red hooks stand out and look like blood, what's wrong with this picture.

Under water what color looses color first underwater at depth? You guessed it, red. The red isn't invisable it just looks colorless not invisable.

Personally it also depends on the color of the water that you are fishing. If you are fishing gin clear trout streams, I'm all about flurocarbon. If it is a stained lake, I personally like green for for a reasonably priced option. Flurocarbon would be my choice I wanted a mono type of line and not a braid. Pullin' big bass out of heavy cover in stained water, braid for me. Opinions will vary that's what sells fishing line.

Catfish don't care much about color because they are not sight feeders, but search for food by smell. I think you could use kite string for cats...all they care about is eating.

I wonder why they don't paint submarines red.

I really think that it depends on the fish. I agree that fish like catfish, gar, carp, and other big dumb fish don't care. However, species like trout and maybe even crappie like line that is harder to see in a particular water clarity level. That my two cents.