Ask an skilled: On braided line colors
Q: Braided line is available in quite a lot of colors. Why all of the completely different choices?
A: I’ve used braided line solely on my spinning reels for greater than a decade and in addition on a few of my casting reels when fishing round vegetation, or in deep water, the place I can really feel my bait quite a bit guesster and get a stronger hookset due to the dearth of stretch within the line. Braided line is healthier round vegetation due to its means to slice by means of it higher than monofilament or fluorocarbon.
Selecting colors
On my casting rods, I often tie the road on to the bait, so I select a pure color like moss inexperienced or gray — a color that may mix into the underwater setting. On my spinning rods, I all the time use a bright-coloured braid, often yellow. It’s a lot simpler to see yellow, purple, white, or blue. Since I all the time connect a six-to 10-foot fluorocarbon chief through an FG knot, I nonetheless get an invisible hyperlink to my bait. Regardless of the uncooked energy of braid, fluorocarbon nonetheless has higher abrasion resistance and knot energy, making it excellent to make use of for attaching your bait.
The benefit of brightly colored braid is that you’ll typically see bites whereas your bait is falling. Your line will leap or cease earlier than it hits the underside. And if you’re utilizing jigs, a drop-shot rig or related finesse tactic, you possibly can watch your line because the bait sinks and know when it hits the underside. This lets you instantly begin your retrieve. In case you see your line cease, it’d be a fish on the opposite finish. Merely put, the brightly colored line would possibly simply catch an further fish or two.
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