Red Line?

Went to a few fishing seminars this off season and have heard out of more than one pro’s mouth “red line”. Apparently it dissapears after a few feet into the water. I picked up a spool of red powerpro 2-10 and some 8lb cajun red mono to test out on some of those cold front tough bites. I hate mono, but going to spool up a spare spool. Also picked up a spool of 8lb PLine CXX Moss Green just for grins. Usually have every pole strung up with either 20 or 30lb test moss power pro. Can you see the red stuff on top of the water? I wonder how many casts I will actually make with the mono spool before I throw it in the garbage… This will all be run on my spinning gear which I don’t use very often. Anyone have any experience with any of this stuff or have suggestions on line for finesse techniques?

This has been discussed here before but it has been some time. If I have time tonight, I’ll try to find the old posts.

In-Fisherman ran an article @ 2 years ago on a scientific experiment on walleyes to determine how they see and what colors they see. One of the outcomes of that study was that they do see red, hence its use on hooks and baits.

Red line does disappear in the first few feet of the water column, but only to human eyes, therefore, the study concluded that red line does not have the advantage of being “invisible” to the fish. Quite the opposite actually.

This study again was done on walleye, no idea of how bass and other gamefish respond. I have since stopped using the red line but use red hooks anytime I can.

Eric

My buddies in SD swear by the cajun line on their tip ups. Although, they are only using small chunks for leader material.

Most of my Walleye rods have 6# test, mostly mono, some braid for pitching small blades…8-10# Braid on my vertical blade rod…
I use Hi Vis yellow or Orange and have no problem catching fish…even in crystal clear water. I tried the Cajun, but it wasn’t nearly as visible and the knot strength in 6# was poor. Maybe I got a bad spool?

I don’t believe for one minute that line Color has an impact (negative or positive) on the bite – at least on the back waters I fish on the Mississippi pool 9. There is one but one exception. Shallow water fall crappie jig fishing. Once water temps start to fall through the 50’s into the 40’s – 4 lb vanish has consistantly outfished 4 lb hi-vis yellow in my little ole FB. I’ve never tried a red colored line for these late fall crappie as I’m perfectly content with vanish.

Hi vis Power pro for this guy in river applications.

Unless it is the material the line is made of that helps it “dissapear” or that fish cant see specific colors im not sold at all. I have a lot of SCUBA time under my belt and we use all bright colors underwater so you CAN see your dive partners. perhaps ill “borrow” some peices of line from cabelas this summer and test them on a dive. but for now not sold…thats all i got.

That must be why I have never caught a fish on a #5 JSR Red Crawdad on Pool 4.

I don’t mind the Cajun line too much. It performs pretty good. I am becoming a huge fan of the Cortland Endurance line in HiVis. For years I used the Trilene XT HiVis green until they discontinued it. They came back with a different variation of it that I don’t like. But in Ultra clear water from 2′ to 30′ I never had a issue with fish responding pourly to it. Under the same conditions, fishing side by side with Flourecent line, noticed fish turn away. So, I stuck with the HiVis green or yellow

I’m down with the SCUBA testing, but am wondering how the different species of fish see it. Anyone a specialist in fish vision. Maybe you can ask the fish when you are down there?

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That must be why I have never caught a fish on a #5 JSR Red Crawdad on Pool 4.

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good point!

Red line doesn’t disappear in the water column. Red is the first color to be absorbed in water so it does lose its color red, but is by no means invisible. It just doesn’t look red anymore

Wondering the same thing what is the reason for the red line they say is invisible under water then with the thought of using red hooks or tails to attract fish to bite