Line color? Clear, green, blue etc

Looking for some feedback on the best line color for most Texas lakes and ponds. Either for main line and/or leader lines. Hoping to improve the hit rates

fluorocarbon clear

Red as it is the first color on the spectrum to disappear under water! Usually within just a few feet its invisible!

P.S. This means any RED crankbaits you have that dive more than a few feet are junk... please send them to me for proper disposal. PM for address.

Thanks!

**Oh and I like Stren Clear Blue when using mono. Otherwise straight power pro. Which is green.

Clear

Green
(the amber/brown Royal Bonyl was good “a few years ago”).

I know it matters to a lot of people and maybe on some days it does. But BASS and FLW outlawed the A-rig because it was too effective and it looks like a wad of coat hangers coming through the water. Nobody seems to worry about a couple of treble hooks on a crankbait (not invisible) but swear by the line they throw them on. My take is it's the presentation of the bait, in the right area, fished at a speed that will trigger a strike. Now if you tell me certain lines help with those points, I'll buy it. A mono leader to absorb some shock - you bet. But not color. Just my opinion from 50+ years of fishing.

Stren Original clear.

I've been using blue camo braid with a fluorocarbon leader a lot this year.

Yes and no. You’re comparing fast moving baits for reaction bite. Drop shot, trig, jig and Carolina rig sit more still and try to intise a bite if there’s not a reaction bite first. Floro clear unless dirty then just go heavy stuff.

Clear blue fluorescent, main line and leader.

AN 40 Super Silver Thread copolymer in green and green power pro braid.....I've been to fishing seminars where pros stated that green line is the only color line that cannot be detected by underwater photography.

Clear fluorocarbon.

Green Fluorocarbon.

Red does not disappear underwater.

I use Cajun red. In my opinion it’s the mostabrasion resistant. I don’t have to re tie very often.

Exactly. Although I believe Dan was being sarcastic.

I’d like to know how much money has been made based on the myth that red hooks and red line “disappears”.

The color red disappears, but your line and hooks don’t become invisible, they just appear a different color.



I use clear fluoro and green mono and green braid.

I use McCoys Mean Green on everything, EXCEPT my C-rig rod. If I use it there, I pout on 20# or higher, too much stretch for me. But T-rigs? I use McCoys Mean Green for everything else. It is a slimmer line that like lb test mono's, so it disappears relatively easily from view, at least to me it does, can't speak for the fish. Keeping records, though, I get more bites than my partners using mono. Hope this helps. Tight lines, keep safe and good luck.

Thad Rains

I prefer clear blue, but haven't seen any significant reduction in the number of fish I boat on green, or even orange or yellow Sufix 832 braid. Might make a lot of difference in crystal-clear water, but I've caught a ton of bass on 20# clear blue mono from that kind of lake, too.

I like to use anything clear and at
least 50 lb test that way when the bass fisherman get hung up in my line I broke off the week before they never get there lures back ………………………..

I catch a lot of fish in 20+ ft of water on a redbug shad worn on a drop shot which is a red worm, so it works pretty well for being invisible....Bass seem to be able to find it just fine.

I used to spend a lot of money on expensive line and recently decided to experiment. Changed all my line to Big Game green and clear and have seen zero reduction in my numbers. The biggest thing I have noticed is I no longer break off off or have knots break like I did when fishing with fluorocarbon. I do used braid on a couple of my rigs.