I fish with white braided line which has semi clear translucent properties due to the fact that white braided line is just plain unpainted polyethylene fiber which is what gives it that semi clear translucent quality to it in terms of light refraction and this video basically just confirmed everything I believed would happen underwater.
Pink and White colors almost disappear especially the white... really surprised for the color water I fish. Looks like Im going pink camo spider wire for me seeing, but is effective on them Not. Thanks for the real world simulation in different contrasts of looking up and from below
Very interesting experiment! Thanks so much for putting this together. This color test could even be applied for baits and best contrast in different environments. Like the yellow being more visible in the vegetation (why chartreuse or yellow/red is a nice visible bait color in the vegetation). Very cool. Interested to see more of these experiments! 👍🏽. Thanks again!
Yeah i have been wanting to do more of these videos. I need to try the different colored baits in this water or flurocarbon vs monofilament. Thanks bud
That’s like the color chartreuse because bluegills belly is sometimes chartreuse. What everyone is clueless to is the fact, and feel free to do your own research but they stopped making lures to attract fish a long time ago. Have you ever seen a pink bug or crawfish or fish?? How about a neon blue and yellow and green and red worm or fish or crawfish. Nope, didn’t think so. Also what most people forget to do is know what a reaction bite is or a finesse bite is. Cranks are reaction meaning the fish hears it or sees it racing by, because cranks were made to retrieve fast and rushes over to it and doesn’t care what the line color is or what multi colored 25$ lure you have it just eats it because it wasted energy to get there. There are two types of bass again do the research. One type eats without discretion the other type takes time to inspect food and make sure it is safe to eat. This instinct is genetically passed down to the frye and can be seen as early the first few days of life after they have consumed the yolk that sustains them in the first stage of life. Interesting shit to say the least. This guy isn’t doing anything new either. Don’t you know that lure and line companies literally have done this millions of times to determine effectiveness of different colors of lures and line.
I see!! Great video nice to know of these colors. And if you think about it, many years ago in the early 1900's their was nothing but dacron line either black, white and black with white stripes.....look at all the older photos of all the fish that was caught then....makes one think.....👍😯🎣
Braid floats, and most anglers seem to use a fluorocarbon leader. This means that fish will often be looking up at braid towards the surface. Therefore, white or light pink seems to be the way to go.
I fish straight braid most of the time. I use Berkeley Fireline Crystal. It is basically white, though it's advertised as a low visibility line. I love it. I can see it easily when using plastics, yet it seems to disappear under water similar to the this test results. I catch plenty of fish with it. I am not saying you never need a leader, but I have one rod out of the the ten on my boat rigged with a FC leader, and that's it. And I feel like I catch plenty of bass.
I fish primarily braid too and I’m hooked on white braid. I swear it seems like I get more bites using it. I haven’t tried the fire line crystal. I am gonna have to try it thanks bob
@@TBassFactory I just bought two 300 yd spools from Bass Pro, they are running a pretty good sale on it right now. Good variety of breaking strengths, too. Tight lines!
Nice, I don’t really care how visible it is as i use a good length of Floro leader, trick is to avoid any issues with casting the “knot” through guides, use an fg knot, of course everyone’s applications are different but this is my favorite method best of both worlds and visibility isn’t an issue.
You definitely have a good way off looking at it and approaching it. Your right by using a leader. The only time I use straight fluoro is if I'm trying to get a crankbait to drive deeper.
I’m starting to think this is a route I’ll go when I respool my new bait caster with braided (it’s my first bait caster so I’ve got mono on now till I get more comfortable with the casting action… don’t want to waste braid). High vis braid with a leader just seems to make a ton of sense.
I use hi viz yellow on everything and haven't ever had a problem weather it be dirty or clear water with fish being line shy. When they are looking at a bait they are tracking that bait not the line.
Yeah, I just wanted to see what they looked like underwater. I was surprised how much the hivis showed up tho. I have since quit using it and haven't noticed a difference in bites.
Thats good to know because as an old man, all these colors are getting confusing. Most of my life it’s been plain ole Stren with the only concern being test strength. Innovations are hard to keep abreast of they are so numerous.
I went from always using moss green to crystal white and it seems I get more fish with the crystal white line. When I use a flourocarbon leader it's even better. So I use crystal white now and often an FC leader as well. I fish in lakes and rivers so water can be a bit murky.
@@TBassFactory Probably every faded color is better haha New test with faded lines?? I was just checking the new Powerpro line and it's almost black (onyx). I would not buy black line now but when I started fishing I used black mono for years because someone recommend it. I've caught many fish on the black line but the waters were pretty muddy. Now I want to fish clear water with surface lures so will go for a white or blue line.
Been testing this for nearly a year now. Light Pink seems to be the overall winner. However, I used some florescent yellow for my crappie rig, didn't effect much, but... I did notice after the first 10ft of line got sun faded to white I got more action. Started using white this summer for my topwaters, seems to be doing good, but need more testing.
Great video but all the cuts make it really hard to figure out which color I'm looking at. If you were to do this again, I would highly suggest adding labels to the lines.
The next big innovation in line will be the elimination of knots between braid and fluorocarbon and use of a bonding agent and/or a small micro sleeve each line end can feed into and be sealed with heat or epoxy to bond the two lines together. People hate tying knots and a good engineer will put an end to the cumbersome knots. I am working on some innovations now to solve this problem..
Yeah that one really surprised me when I seen them underwater. Not a lot of guys want to have pink line on their reels either but some couples that gosh admit the wife catches more all the time and she has pink on her reel. Don’t know?
@@dubljay0612 www.amazon.com/KastKing-Extremus-Braided-Fishing-300Yds/dp/B07MSN4X4J/ref=sr_1_8?crid=1GIZKMGRZFON8&dchild=1&keywords=braided+green+fishing+line&qid=1587163500&sprefix=braided+green+%2Caps%2C170&sr=8-8 that is a link to the braided fishing line from Amazon. It is Extremus Kast King Grass Green Braided Fishing Line. I hope that helps bud
very interesting. I have the dark green line on my jigging reel for fluke. On another reel, I have camo blue(4000). On my 5000 reel, I'm thinking about yellow.
I have started using the white Spiderwire and have noticed how many more fish I catch because of the changes I have made in my line colors because of this experiment.
in green light shadows become magenta ...this is a highly occulted information but a scientific objective fact in color theory. Look it up its quite intriguing
Ok hear me out - the light green should be one of the best from the tests, but its basically chartreuse and we all know how well fish see that. Surpringly enough even when everything else around them can be a similar color they still see that light green clear as day. And in the video a bass swims right up to it and I swear it takes a little nibble haha. So I might order the light green and see for myself. From all my experience I think a fish would somehow see it no problem and to us it might be invisible. They must have better vision for distinguishing greens and blues based on their environment
All these years later does anyone think the colour of leader line matters? I personally have all colours of mainline to match my colour of rod and or reel but I use clear line for the rigs and spinning.
I always use braids with clear visibility but i found no problem using them. Hungry fishes always look for a prey to ambush not with a braid. ROYGVIB spectral colors are almost always present under water aided with sun lights blended on or down the water so fishes wont mine the colors at all but for their preys.
Hey Derek, my name is Josh. I was wondering what the name of that light blue braid that you used on your braided test that I seen on RU-vid was I like the light Blue braided fishing line. I'm using white right now. I just started to use it. I just wanted to know the name of the light blue
@@TBassFactory have you tried the light blue braid and if you have, have you had much luck with it? I've only had White braid on for a short time and I've caught a couple of fish
The studies I read that were done with bass magazine. I’ll look for those studies your talking about. I love looking and learning that stuff. Thanks bud
@@TBassFactory you have shown that certain colours in the water....so like if I am fish topwater popper or a topwater minnow lure what could be the least visible colour? Thank you🤔
I'm going to try this with salmon, tried black and moss green, even with a floro leader, they see that main line and just stay away, no hits!!! Went back to green mono and floro I got hits!!! Weird
Here is the link bud, it is kastking extremus www.amazon.com/KastKing-Extremus-Braided-Fishing-300Yds/dp/B07MSN4X4J/ref=sr_1_8?crid=1GIZKMGRZFON8&dchild=1&keywords=braided+green+fishing+line&qid=1587163500&sprefix=braided+green+%2Caps%2C170&sr=8-8
Here is the link for the white braid. It is spiderwire braid. It works really good I've switched to it in the clear water and it seems like it get more bites using it. www.amazon.com/Spiderwire-Stealth-Superline-Fishing-Line/dp/B01IDEPUFO/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=spiderwire+white+braid&qid=1590326087&sr=8-3
You are 100 percent correct. I was thinking of the underwater video where I filmed on the comal. I am in pleasanton reviewing the video right where the dam is at before the atascpsa goes out of town.
Eh the more I watch i cant for sure tell, but great vid and would love to see this done in different bodies of water. Keep in mind it doesn't matter what the camera sees, just what the bass doesn't.
Lure is the past tense of lore. There is a lot of fishing folklores out there based on some pro's confidence kick and businesses wanting to make money. Why would the color of line matter when you throw a shinney sparkling colorful piece of plastic/steel in the water that rattles, twirls, skips and shakes... and fish eat it?
@@TBassFactory I am from the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean and we go jigging near the oil rigs north east of the island within the Caribbean Sea. Depths there is over 500ft. We jig for Snappers, Groupers and Amberjacks - BIG ONES. Currently I have gears rigged with 120lb Moss Green Braid, 100lb White Braid, 80lb Hi-Vis Yellow Braid. Of course I use 20-30ft of 100 - 150lb clear mono-leader. However, It will still be interesting to know how braid colours at that depth appear. Challenging I know, but would definitely be interesting!!!
fish have a different sensitivity to light wavelength and so to colours. Just as an example fish can still see or smell stuff under water even when dark night or murky waters. Humans cant. if we consider fish are not stupid creatures, then some times is more about what would not afraid them and convince their brain to eat or attach rather then try to hide stuff from them.
In all of my research. Bassmaster and various marine biology agencies have done multiple studies on what bass see, and the results are that bass see no different from us. Light affects our eyes the same and they see the same color spectrum as is. The only difference is that bass can see more of the ultraviolet spectrum than we can.
No it's not a dumb question. you do not want the fish to see the line, with fishing your trying to resemble what the fish eat and make a lure look as close to natural as that as you can. The closer to invisible the line is the more realistic the bait will look. Hope that helps Tod
