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Take a look underwater at how different conditions affect line visibility. We test monofilament, fluorocarbon, braid, lo-vis green mono and clear-blue monofilament. Also, take a look at different line sizes and how well they can or cannot be seen.
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@SteveRogersOutdoors 20 дней назад

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@MrTheBigNoze 19 дней назад

I mean, this has to be the best fishing channel on RU-vid. Short, to the point, real tests and great advice. Thanks Steve!

@redbeard6606 20 дней назад

The side by side comparison was very informative. Thanks for doing all the hard grunt work for us Steve.

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@GoingMod 19 дней назад

Love these experiments you do Steve, keep up the great work!!!

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

Thanks, will do!

@connortibbs2635 18 дней назад

Awesome video. Thank you. Always coming up with great ideas for topics!

@richthompson3326 19 дней назад

Thanks for this information Steve! Good to see how it shows up under water, I always wondered!

@johnnybellamy3855 19 дней назад

Great information thanks

@machoman5928 14 дней назад

Very good job at presenting this test! I would love to see how hi vis mono looks under the same conditions. Thanks!

@DshaunBirch 19 дней назад

this is so freakin dope! the way you adapted the experiment with the “new information” was a brilliant pivot and i hadnt given that a thought before its so important

@maxcole3930 19 дней назад

Like I've said many times before, your underwater vids are awesome & teach me a lot!

@sonnyv6888 19 дней назад

Awesome video. My favorite of yours so far!

@jaredl2239 19 дней назад

Another great video Steve! Thank you

@carytoms9500 5 дней назад

Thanks great information. I fish a highland reservoir clear water

@marclafontaine5615 13 дней назад

Thank you sir, helps us make smarter choices.

@stevevanhorn1909 19 дней назад

As always, very well done tests. Thanks.

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

Thanks again!

@felixalbion 2 дня назад

After 60 years of fishing freshwater and seawater I have yet to be convinced that it makes any difference if a line is visible or not.

@PGAprodan День назад

I've been at it for 55 years and have come to the same conclusion. A year ago in Idaho I was catching trout between 10-24 inches using straight 65 lb. braid. Also, while fly fishing with tapered leaders as I traded flies or lost some due to snags, I would tie my flies farther up the tapered part. The leaders became much shorter and much thicker, probably the equivalent to 40-50 lb. test or so, and still caught the same amount of fish as my buddies who kept trading out for lighter leaders. I have even had fish nip the end of my floating fly line like they thought it was a bug or something. Then of course there is my buddy Clark who owned a long line boat and was basically tying hooks to line that would have looked like rope under water. He was a millionaire from catching our dinners. Fish are stupid. So are people, they assume fish look, react, and perceive things like we humans do and for the same reasons. They don't.

@MyNameIsNobody888 3 дня назад

I fish low vis green mono and it’s one of the keys to my success fishing in my area. Also I NEVER throw skirted baits without bang shad spray

@dewaynewilson8937 19 дней назад

Thanks Steve great video

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

Thanks!

@jonbullard7074 19 дней назад

Great video Steve!

@stevereindl2098 18 дней назад

Wow...really informative episode. You really add a useful dimension to fishing. Thanks for all your hard work.

@SteveRogersOutdoors 17 дней назад

Thanks! And thank you for watching.

@oak7746 20 дней назад

appreciate these video steve! best informative channel out there. ill always recommend your channel to new fisherman.

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

Thank you! I appreciate it.

@beavisbrowne3497 19 дней назад

Brilliant 👏 👏

@georgetollefsen994 3 дня назад

Awesome job Steve!

@SteveRogersOutdoors 3 дня назад

Thanks!

@fly_yaker 7 дней назад

Very informative and Excellent video!

@SteveRogersOutdoors 7 дней назад

Glad it was helpful!

@nortonsoutdooradventures 19 дней назад

Good stuff! Thanks for the great video!!

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@brianathern9154 6 дней назад

Great video Steve and I've been using more leaders with mono and copolymer line. I always use one to my braided line with topwater but have also been using on plastics. Thanks sir

@SteveRogersOutdoors 6 дней назад

Thanks for sharing

@turtlepoi 19 дней назад

Hey Steve, super fan of seeing under the water. I had a thought for ya. I just watched some deer hunter vids where hunters got the info on how deer see VS us. I was thinking it would be a great segment for you to do the same with common freshwater game fish. All the stuff we...um ...you have been doing is how we would see it under water. For instance deer have way more Blue receptors so blue shows super well to them giving them super dusk/dawn vision. So blue sticks out to them in full light. So, It would be great to hear what you find out about how fish see. There was a big push a while back with claims they could see UV colors way better than us so I do know there is stuff out there on it.

@rickwalt8767 14 дней назад

Great video. Luv your channel. Keep up the good work.

@SteveRogersOutdoors 13 дней назад

Thank you! Will do!

@shannonkirby9295 20 дней назад

Hey, Steve, great to see ya and this is a great video. Be safe

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

Thanks Shannon! Hope you are getting a chance to get out once in awhile this summer. Can't believe June is cruising by already.

@Boethius411 9 дней назад

Wow… thanks for putting in the effort brother

@SteveRogersOutdoors 9 дней назад

You bet!

@georgetollefsen994 3 дня назад

Steve I have been chasing River Smallmouth for 55 years and I have learned something’s from you that are really hard to learn on the water, the video on what colors bass see and now the line contrast in the water at different angles! Who knew? Awesome education! Thanks for sharing your experience!

@SteveRogersOutdoors 3 дня назад

Great to hear!

@ronaldalleman2111 4 дня назад

Very good video

@collinmc90 17 часов назад

hmm interesting stuff. I recall one day on the lake when I ran out of leader and just wound up fishing my green braided line. actually didn't do too bad lol.

@svengalt9546 19 дней назад

SCIENCE! I can't get enough of these experiments, thank you so much.

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

Glad you like them!

@rogerharvey3835 2 дня назад

I fish a lot of live bait under slip bobbers, from perch crappie minnows, bass & walleye shiners, to ten inch pike chubs. I’ve found nobody is overly line shy when cheating with live bait, but I do think the suppleness of super small diameter braids (tied directly to the hook) facilitate a presentation to panfish minnows not achievable with thicker diameter lines. I’m routinely catching more and larger crappies than my best friend who uses strictly mono. And not by a small margin! I’m routinely catching master angler size crappies, while he struggles to hook 12”s.

@diaryofagoat-lass1023 5 дней назад

This is such a cool experiment. All anglerkind thanks you for such valuable info! Where I live however, braid and steel leaders are mandatory because pike and walleye will chew through all forms of line, regardless of how visible it is. 🤣

@Woefman911 19 дней назад

Man knocked it out again....wonder if i could tell wife im going to lake for experiment 🤔

@rkw221 4 дня назад

interesting about blue mono. Out here in CA in Sacramento area it's found everywhere and other non-florescent colors can be a challenge to find. Like you mentioned it must be a regional thing. Heck maybe the shops there sell it faster than they can get it in? Who knows but your video was really interesting so thanks!

@TWC6724 19 дней назад

Your channel is awesome for doing all these tests. Honestly, I think these companies should be doing this on their channels to prove their products to the buyers but that would probably result in smaller sales 😜.

@Unit_With_Legs 8 дней назад

If life was truth based America wouldn't even exist...

@somewhereinsd362 19 дней назад

Very informative and educational thanks steve... I tend to use braid to floor leader but only about 5 ft of leader, been working good so far 👌

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

I really like how it saves the cost of the fluoro just using a leader. Braid is pricey too but it sure lasts a long time.

@somewhereinsd362 19 дней назад

@SteveRogersOutdoors I agree completely and I've not noticed any fewer bites in clear water with this set up...

@BankFishVince 19 дней назад

Steve you never miss brother 🙌🏾💯

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

Thanks!

@RyanSmith-fb8rf 19 дней назад

This is awesome and why I only use braid to leader for everything even in dirty water I feel like I get more bites. I use a long leader for stretch and to take the pressure off of my knot (Palomar) if tied correctly It won’t break on hook set

@dindin9595 День назад

Thanks Steve, 👍👍👍

@SteveRogersOutdoors День назад

My pleasure!!

@edonwheels7396 8 дней назад

Your video about bass not seeing blue leaves me wanting you to make a new video on line visibility.

@LowBrowFishing 19 дней назад

I know on my lakes that I get considerably more bites when using a fluorocarbon leader with my braid main line. Granted, personal experience is a poor source of evidence as no two people ever see the same thing the same way, but it really makes it hard for me to use straight braid.

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

Agree. I only use straight braid in a few situations now. Just have so much confidence in the braid to leader - especially on my spinning gear with a long leader because I can see that hi-vis braid for those subtle bites.

@patrickfiets 13 дней назад

Thanks for the informative video! I would love to see the difference between different colors of braid, like bright red vs bright green vs dark green etc 😊

@SteveRogersOutdoors 12 дней назад

I will have to do a follow-up. Thank you!

@user-zc8sd8jx8s 5 дней назад

finally, the comparison done right (even if still not absolutely exhaustively). this confirms my educated guess combined with brief testing that fluoro and nylon would have similar visibility, except for the cases when reflections become important. btw, remember: fluorocarbon is STILL a monofilament line, so saying "fluoro vs mono" is incorrect.

@nunliski 4 дня назад

It's only incorrect if you enjoy being pedantic. Everyone knows that "mono" means nylon.

@user-zc8sd8jx8s 4 дня назад

@@nunliski that's the point. being pedantic is exactly appropriate in the given subject, that is, in an experiment that's conducted in a scientific(ish) fashion.

@nunliski 4 дня назад

@@user-zc8sd8jx8s LOL this is nowhere near scientific, and it doesn't matter in this context whatsoever if you distinguish between nylon and fluoro by calling nylon mono

@vincentlivoti4184 19 дней назад

Great video Steve. Would you ever test some of the Copolymer fishing lines like the McCoy brand which I love as a cost effective alternative?

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

Excellent idea! Thank you. I will have to do some follow up videos for sure.

@FritzgreenFishing 19 дней назад

Great Video.. I wish u tested something lime the Suffix Ghost Braid.. it's a white braid.. and I swear by it in my neck of the woods

@SteveRogersOutdoors 18 дней назад

Great suggestion!

@Michdave700 19 дней назад

Most importantly, thanks for an actual test, providing actual data amidst an ocean of conjecture and claim, you are a hero! Also, I’m wondering about that very interesting test with the test rig on the bottom, another factor might be involved. I’m wondering if the viewing angle may play a role. The bottom test you ran was the lowest angle view, closer to parallel to the lines instead of perpendicular.

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

It would interesting to do an entire video just with bottom angles and then like another viewer commented, on the top with the camera looking up at it too. Would be a great follow up video. Thank you!

@tommaryott4957 19 дней назад

I gave up on the whole floro thing last year...tired of spending money on it... I use blue mono on 90% of my setups... Braid on the others...no leader. I'm catching just as many fish without the headaches.

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

The blue mono looked really good!

@Fishingwithfaithoutdoors23 17 дней назад

I don’t get to fish super clear water down here in mid-Ga but if a bass is color blind, then it probably want see the line very well to start with. And look at it this way, if you see a 100$ bill crawling across the ground you’ll run over and try to pick it up whether out you see a 15lb floro line tied to it or not. But I will say this. I’ve experienced this the other day fishing. I was dragging a worm on the edge of a pond where it was super clear and a small bass swam over to it looked at the lure and I hopped it one time and it took the bait. I had 15lb floro p-line and the bass never once looked at my line because it was looking dead at the bait. I honestly believe bass doesn’t look at the line. I can’t speak for other parts of the country but me personally if i fish super clear waters a lot I would reduce my line size to be more invisible. Awesome video!

@joaquinlopez997 День назад

I looked & almost all my blue line was zebco. Except for 1 spool. Bionic ice line.

@maxcole3930 19 дней назад

So what line was best/ most invisible laying against the bottom? You should try it again with the camo fishing lines. I'm curious if they blend in like we think or may stand out like a sore thumb!?

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

Yes, I definitely need to do that. It would be really interesting to see. Thank you for the great question!

@davidewing6394 19 дней назад

I think I'm gonna be saving a lot of money because of this video!

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

Glad it was helpful

@kayakfishingforpredators9107 19 дней назад

Great underwater video but i would like to see the different line(diameters) under different angles (90-75-60-45-30-10-0 degrees) under water. Carp angles are very conscious about the line hitting the deck (bottom). Lead-core, Tungsten beads, Tungsten putty, Flying back lead, Sinking mainline and (sliding) Top lead (in that order) are used to be Certain its on the ground. So i think you did a great job so far but i feel it needs some wider view. Thanks anyway for todays upload 😊😊😎🌞👍

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

That is a great idea! Thank you. I will have to do that in a follow up video sometime.

@squonto47 18 дней назад

Steve, we got all the clear/blue Trilene you’d ever want just up 355 at Johnny World! 🤷‍♂️😅

@user-zc8sd8jx8s 5 дней назад

now I have to test how feasible it'll be to make the 1 mm mono leader that I'm using for pike fishing with heavy lures longer, so that the knot will have to slide through the guides. Even though I use FG knot exclusively for this setup, the guides aren't that big in a relative sense. This needs trying. I guess I may need something to make the braid (PE #5-#6) to leader transition smoother.

@hotramen5952 3 дня назад

walleye can tell the difference in 20 feet of moving water at night. trout can be worse. im sure bass see more than we do as well. the co world record was caught on 25 lb toray superhard fluoro if it helps anyone.

@CTRadventures 8 дней назад

Im a simple guy, maybe uneducated but i still fish 12lb mono... It worked for years and still works to this day

@CTRadventures 3 дня назад

@@dvvass true

@enderst81 3 дня назад

If it works, don't fix it!

@CTRadventures 2 дня назад

@@enderst81 I'm not Bill Dance, I just like being out on the lake! I went down the rabbit hole before and spooked all fluro, all braid, all mono and still can't say I caught more or less. Prob cause I suck at fishing. I think more importantly it proves its learning bass behavior before line really matters. Are you a weekend warrior or fishing for $100k. Line might batter then. What are the variables involved. Again, that might just be coming from ignorance

@rousefire 19 дней назад

I use clear blue fluorescent for worms and jigs. Was hoping it was tested.

@johnguth5376 7 дней назад

In other words,back in the days of Dacron it was a wonder anyone caught any bass or any fish at all!

@MyBigAzzPimple 6 дней назад

Now let’s have the bass do a take on this because it’s their eye and vision that really matter. 😂 I’m just kidding.. Thanks for take the time to do this because I’m more of a braid person and I will definitely use a mono or floro and a leader line..

@paulstuartwilson485 19 дней назад

I use and am very happy with my current setup on my bait casters. Braid to a fluorocarbon leader. I usually use about a 24 foot leader on my bait casters. Yes, 24 feet. Four "fingertip to fingertip" from my FG knot to the end. Never monofilament. I don't trust monofilament with any "fish of a lifetime" possibilities. The hyper long leader is so I don't have to add any leaders while fishing. Tie as many knots as I want and if some of the leader becomes compromised, I cut it off and keep fishing. A properly tied FG knot passes through the rod guides just like line itself. Very rarely do I spool up a whole reel of fluorocarbon unless it's a finesse type of situation or if I'm in gin clear water (20 foot visibility or more). Don't laugh, Steve, Ouachita is my home lake. Lower end is clearer than ought to be legal most of the year. I call it "obscenely clear" and it's annoying at times. 👍🇺🇸

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

I have fished Ouachita! Had a great time there. I really have become a fan of the longer leaders for all the reasons you said. Thanks for sharing this!

@jaredb9909 14 дней назад

If you do another one of these I believe original P-Line is a clear blue line

@SteveRogersOutdoors 14 дней назад

Thank you! I will have to check that out.

@kennethsmith8844 11 дней назад

In the Tennessee River my brother , using blue tinted line while I was using clear line, he was catching 0 fish and I was catching many fish. This was in morning. At lunch he changed to clear line. In afternoon he out fished me.,🎣🥴

@USAsportsmanIdaho 9 дней назад

After years of watching leader shy trout attack bright orange stick on strike indicators on bright orange or lime green PVC fly line I decided to try straight 40# braid for bass for one season. I experienced no difference in my catch rate no matter the lure. The next season I used a 18 # leader with mono and fluoro both and my catch rate remained the same. Most of my fishing was done on three different lakes each with different levels of turbidity. My personal conclusion was that I had more confidence with a clear leader but the bass didn’t care, color and presentation mattered more than visibility. My average catch rate was 30 per day.

@SteveRogersOutdoors 8 дней назад

This is all excellent info! Thank you for sharing. I definitely agree that a lot of it is a confidence thing. I know it is for me.

@eqmaverickpoet 5 дней назад

Need a color filter on the camera to emulate that fish can’t see BLUE. 😊

@irwinm.fletcher2612 19 дней назад

When I first put on flouro, it has a goldfish tint that doesn’t last more than a day then the color changes to slightly more opaque

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

Interesting. Which brand is that one and thank your for sharing.

@jeffmanning8821 19 дней назад

I would like to see the line on the top of the water and the camera on the bottom looking up to see what visibility the different lines have when using a top water bait.

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

That is a terrific idea. I wish I would have thought of that! I will have to do a follow up sometime.

@davidcrump2348 5 дней назад

You still find stren and trilene xl here decently

@bobsmoot2392 4 дня назад

Fluoro gets brittle after ONE good stress. That's why so many break offs (and lost trophies). Mono is actually much superior.

@AcevesFishing День назад

What pound braid you use ? And what know to leader you use ?

@SteveRogersOutdoors День назад

On my spinning gear I use 20lb hi-vis yellow. On my baitcast equipment most often it is 50lb green. Most of my leaders are in that 10-12lb range.

@thatfishingnoob 19 дней назад

Dang. I somewhat recently converted everything to fluoro lol. However, I will be doing a braid to fluoro leader for my designated drop shot rig.

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

I’ve been doing the same thing. I run braid to a small swivel and then have the fluoro from there down. Also helps to eliminate that crazy line twist a drop shot can sometimes cause.

@thatfishingnoob 19 дней назад

@@SteveRogersOutdoors great idea about the swivel! I hadn’t thought of that, and was going to FG knot it haha. Thanks for that tip.

@ChrisG9978 7 дней назад

Always tie fluoro leaders to braid mainline no matter what or when I'm fishing. Fluoro has that extra abrasion resistance and lighter lb-test fluoro cuts through the water better than braid does. Then there's the bite factor...I've fished with guys who tie direct to braid...we'll fish the same lures and plastics...in almost every circumstance I've netted more fish when the only difference was that fluoro leader tied on. I'll generally tie on 20 ft+ of fluoro leader...that way when hooks break off, I have plenty of leader line left before having to tie a new line on.

@SteveRogersOutdoors 7 дней назад

I’ve been really happy with putting a really long leader on as well. Lots of benefits!

@davepflugshaupt5728 21 час назад

Something to think on why do gill nets work if fish are line shy?? Clear water line can be seen but do they care?? Still think depth and speed most important

@whatsgrowingon 5 дней назад

Shoulda tried some red line too. Mono red

@SteveRogersOutdoors 5 дней назад

Definitely. I need to order some online. None of the stores by me had any. Was surprised.

@myronchamberlain7734 5 дней назад

I think that the expensive fluorocarbon line in most cases is sold to suck in the fisherman rather than the fish. We are trying to catch

@theLizardof0z 20 дней назад

Wasnt all that surprised until I saw the lines on the bottom and everything was visible. That shocked me a little. Should have tossed on a Cajun line for those 'red line is invisible' folks.

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

I looked high and low around the stores near me for the Cajun line. Not one of them had it. If I would plan things out a little farther in advance I would have ordered it online.

@DshaunBirch 19 дней назад

@@SteveRogersOutdoorsthere’s definitely a lot less colors available these days at the stores i’ve noticed as well

@gregdavis8944 19 дней назад

When I started bass fishing I tied a brown football jig to 80 pound white braid, it was like an anchor rope I could see it for several feet easily. I didn’t kill them but I caught several smallmouth and some of them in less then 5 feet of water. All fish are different some are really dumb thankfully.

@Nep311 19 дней назад

They don't know what line is. If it's just sitting there and they're staring at it, it might look odd. That's about it.

@SteveRogersOutdoors 19 дней назад

I totally forgot about the white braid. I remember seeing it quite a bit in the past.

@ricknelson4793 19 дней назад

Anchor Rope 😂🤣😅

@zombiediarhea 12 дней назад

Seem like once any fish's predatory instinct or feeding response is triggered, they don't seem to pay attention to any line type. Take nylon trotline for catfish into consideration. I believe it's all about bait or lure presentation.

@SteveRogersOutdoors 12 дней назад

That trotline is a great example. They're hungry and it doesn't deter them at all.

@bluewater9795 9 дней назад

I was using all, but now I'm moving back to mono only. Neither lines showed an improvement on getting bit.

@SteveRogersOutdoors 8 дней назад

Mono has definitely caught a lot of fish over the years. That's all I used for a long time.

@hankakah4180 День назад

As an outdoor fisherman in Hawai'i, I refuse to use any type of braided or non-deteriorating line. Many times I've gone fishing to only find other fishermen have gotten stuck on the rocks or coral, and KNOWING that this line will take MUCH LONGER to disintegrate threatens many of the native plants, sea life that they are stuck on. People just break them because they can't retrieve the line, causing others to get stuck in them also!

@PGAprodan День назад

Here is the other side of that. If you are using braid you will lose much less line because you can use the same diameter line and it is 3 times as strong. Instead of losing line, I frequently bend hooks dislodging a snag that I would have otherwise lost if I had been fishing lighter line. Plus, I have never had a fish break off while using braid.

@hankakah4180 День назад

@PGAprodan I don't care about losing a fish, it's more important to me to save the Hawaii we came to love, not the trash that litters our ocean and kills our things in it. We have the most flora and fauna on the endangered species list, have already seen many go extinct, why do we want to add to that list?

@bobsmoot2392 4 дня назад

Like he said, we see with human eyes. Fish see with fish eyes. We can only really know what works, by what works.

@darrellbaker2895 13 дней назад

Watching this video, I was reminded of one you uploaded 3 months ago about bass not having the ability to see blue in the color spectrum (tritanopia). Do these results change when the images are processed using a tritanopia filter? If line visibility really is a factor, how did anglers catch all those multitudes of bass in the years before fluoro was introduced? Bass are in the same family of fish that include sunfish, which do not exhibit line shyness. So, I’m wondering if all this is strictly a marketing ploy to exact more revenue from gullible anglers.

@SteveRogersOutdoors 13 дней назад

Those are all excellent questions. And it makes me think about the times they smash an umbrella rig. That’s a lot of hardware coming through the water. Regular mono and straight braid has definitely caught a lot of fish over the years.

@Roger-gm9tl 7 дней назад

Let me know when a fish tells you what color line they see best, just like lures, made to catch more fishermen than fish !

@cjr4497 6 дней назад

All I know is that I get more bites on fluoro

@joshuabrown9413 2 дня назад

Always my go to. The only time I use mono is when fishing to water. That includes tippet material for fly fishing. Only mono for dry flies.

@winstonrocco1981 8 дней назад

Guy my buddy uses nothing but solar (bright green) for everything and catches just as many fish as I do using McCoy copy clear and clear or green big game. I don’t use floro or braid except frog fishing. Y’all can keep the overpriced and over hyped floro trash

@rimshotdc День назад

Zebco outcast out fishes them all 👍‼️

@JacobE-23 21 час назад

If you ask me, floro is more for ocean fishing. But I use it for freshwater too just because I have it from ocean fishing lol. It honestly holds up real well to toothy fish. Edit: really abrasion resistant, I fish for black fish alot and they will take you straight into rocks that'll cut mono pretty easy, but the floro holds up.

@tonycamplin8607 6 дней назад

Interesting? maybe. But it's how the fish see it that matters so I don't think that it's relevant. Braid although it shows up just looks like a filament of weed so it wouldn't bother the fish. How you fish is much more important than what line you use.

@nerveaudio 7 дней назад

Flouro=nightmare

@darkinertia2 День назад

its hilarious how people think braid is somehow gonna not trick a bass to bite given all the weeds and even trash and line in the waters....were making them bite plastic ffs

@RCSTILE 14 дней назад

My take on the line visibility issue. If you are fishing in a lake that has less than 3 feet of visibility, who cares,? If I can't see a white, half once spinner bait with 2 #4 willow leaf blades three feet down do you honestly think a fish can see or even cares if it is attached to a length of fishing line that is less than 2/10's of a mm.in diameter? And what about the flippers and frog fisherman that are using straight 65# braid that looks like anchor rope. This is called marketing, period.