Colour of Line?

[markj]

Will the colour of my line affect the amount of fish I catch? Does the colour really matter??

[x]

Depends on what you are fishing, when, and what the water colour is like.

In general, at night or in deep or highly coloured water, no difference. During the day, I've seldom seen much difference. I have noted that some days the fish (particularly pollock and coalfish) will follow the lure but not take, but whether this is due to the lure or the line it's hard to say. I used to use a yellow line but worried that despite fish being supposedly colour blind that they could see some difference in it.

To be on the safe side I usually stick to clear or blue line for hook lengths. For the likes of the more finnicky fish like mullet, you might be better off with a light clear line.

[DAMIEN]

hi maark
some people say it does affetct you cath others dont.heres an example i used red snood one time in a compition and felt my cath rate had inproved others say it was luck.i dont really know myself

[scara]

I read in one of the magazines a while back that red is the first colour in the light spectrum that fish can not see in water. I believe it meant that due to light refraction in the water it is the first colour that disappers to fishes vision
Saying that I always use clear line for traces. but don't really care about shockleader colour.
The one time I have a serious perfrence is when fishing for mullet or Sea trout, i have seen a major improvment in catch rate using vanish flurocarbon line. I put this down to fishing in very clear shallow water where I believe the trace line shows up against the sandy bottom.

This like most things in fishing could be all wrong just personal prefrence.

[RobertMcClean]

I agree with Scara, Berkley or Vanish Flurocarbon is excellent especially in Gin clear seas and especially when flounder fishing in such Sea's!! Generally speaking I would be paying more attention to the limpness or bounce in a snood line rather than colour. I think people think red is good but is it just that the bounce in red Amnesia is better than black or yellow when fishing say in a stormy sea! I have found Yellow amnesia which is soft and limp to good for ground feeders like dogs and rays, where Red to be good for codling and coalies which are just off the bottom? If you really want to get into it put a ragworm on a snood and put it into shallow water at the mouth of an Estuary and watch how each line moves, its quite interesting trust me!!

[m.b3]

Robert, haven't tried the different coloured amnesia's test yet!! i have noticed a difference from brand to brand. difference in bounce(!), limpness, softness... fluoro seems to be catchin on would good results to proove it's worth however this is quite stiff?? i was always more concerned with snood lenght, b.s. and colour?? if red is first to disappear then why do red lures score at times over other colours, red beads in flattie fishing??? some only use red rig bodies believing it is invisible??? drive ye mad if ye thought 'bout it too much!!????

[RobertMcClean]

Well snood length is a different topic altogether I guess and certainly there are different lengths for different scenarios depending on tide, fish etc... And you said it if we were to analyze everthing we would go mad, I guess its whatever works for you at the end of the day!!! Everyone will have their favourites and ideas on whats best, but there are a lot of things people would tend to agree on such as flurocarbon, your right its stiff and seems to bring movment to baits as well as being invisible, ah well maybe when we retire we can test everything in detail, too little time to try everything I guess :lol: