Line Colour.

[Carpy]

I was reading a few things off another forum and someone asked if the colour of a line can make a difference... then someone said this.

"This is an interesting one.
I have a theory that carp are not normally scared by line providing they can see it. I believe that when they can't actually see it yet can feel or sense it moving against their body, this is when they get spooked.
Carp are naturally curious, they love weeds and underwater structures, over hanging branches and other general snags and they can see all of these. I've never yet heard a carp reffered to as being "weed shy" or "snag shy" but line shy.....................oh yes!!  

I've been convinced for some time that carp don't like to feel what they can't see so would have every confidence in using brightly coloured lines"

What'dya think?   bfish

[Andrew Burgess]

Carp do have good eyesight when looking up to the surface to see any floating baits but hovering over baited area I think they might not able to see the line if it was the same colour as the lake bottom contours.

I don't know about using a different colour line but i do recall a long time ago on a old John Wilsion fishing programme he did used a colour (yellow ) monofilment line to catch a twenty pounder carp

[vickory]

Good question  trout  do fish see the line. i think some fish do like roach, barbel, chub. But carp, pike, perch. anything goes. But i have tryed differant line colours when the fishing is hard and it makes a differance.
look at most carp rigs they are massive line or braid, double boilies on a hair rig. So you have a size 6 hook hanging under them. No coloured line for carp dont mean a thing.

[Andrew Burgess]

We ought to tried out some kind of testing on these colours of lines and it should be interesting what the result is

How about lads? ;D

[anglerpaul]

Will do Andrew, i have always wondered if line colour makes a differance, like hook size does.
Whats with this braid stuff. what does it do, and how does it help.

[anglerpaul]

Fished a local pool 3 days ago and it was hard, tryed all baits, not a sniff. Changed my set up plus reel, and started to catch. the line on the first rod was a clear colour.The line on the new reel was a brownie colour, we had a bit of rain and the lake was coloured, maybe the line helped. trout You got me thinking on that one.

[BUDGIE]

The subject of the colour of line being important or not is one that is often debated.I tend to agree with the earlier poster who sugests that it may be more important to decide wether the fish seeing the line or not is the real issue!

Some people say that the fish is more likely to be scared if some thing it cant see touchs it.This suggests that thicker more visible lines would be better....but what about at night/in low visibility? Well that blows that theory for me any way. When fishing floating baits for carp I have long felt that it is the shaddow the line casts on a bright day that scares the fish as opposed to the line it self. Allowing for this by de greasing the last few inchs of the hook link has always paid of for me and greatly reduced the number of last minute turn aways.

I have used braid for my mainline for all of my fishing other than light light general float fishing for over 15 years now.When I did use mono I (and still do when mono is used) use Maxima Chamelion which despite the sales pitch is a brown coloured line. When ever I have a choice in braid colour I also tend to choose a subdued green or brown colour.Absolutely crazy really as most braids fade to "Off white" quite quickly any way!

In truth I dont really think it makes that much difference.There being far to many other far more important reasons to wether we catch or not.As with a lot of angling choices that fall in to this catagory I think the best thing is to just go with what ever you are the most confident in,be it a bright colour or a camo one!

[Andrew Burgess]

Yes Budgie I tend to agree with you on that one - go for the best thing and is to just go with what ever you feel most condident in whatever it is if it was bright colour line or camo.