Line

[james]

Hi All,

On the market today there are lots of different colours line.
What do people thing is the best colour?

James

[Paulm]

Most of the lakes that i fish are mainly 'Night' lakes, so colour is not that important to me, abrasion resistance however is..!

Paulm

[Rivercarper]

Diawa Sensor or GR60 my choice and has been for long time.Long range it's Spiderwire Fusion Braid.

[bazza]

i use shimano technium because of the properties of the line. i don't think it's grey colour is particularly camouflaged, but i have seen carp caught on flouro yellow main line, so i'm not sure how much importance i would put on it.

i suppose it depends on the water, and how twitchy the fish are...

[SAMR]

to be honest, i think that colour of line is a confidence thing really. i don't think that there is very big difference between green or brown line for example as these are both colours that blend into the lake bed. I would be confident with any colour mainline appart from black because there is nothing in the mid-water (where your line would be) area that is that colour. But thats just me, many peaple have caught on black line but at the end of the day, its just what i feel happiest with.
My favourite types of line are ESP line, Daiwa Sensor, DAM Camou (although that isn't made anymore) and berkley fireline for marker work.
Keeping it real
Sam

[Boo]

Having returned to fishing after a long lay off I have been buying new equipment and experimenting with new line. I have tried Daiwa Sensor, Synergy and Soft Steel and have just bought some GR60 having read some of the comments about it on this website. I have not fished with the GR60 yet, having only loaded it onto two spools yesterday, but of all of the lines that I have loaded this was the most difficult. I loaded it exactly as all the others but it seemed to want to twist and was a total pain. Hopefully it will prove to have been worth the effort when I get to use it.

Of all of the lines I have used Soft Steel has got to be my favourite so far and it is the one that I have loaded on the most spools!

[CarponlineEditor]

Right here we go again. It is not really important what colour your mainline is. It is the hook length material that we should look at.

The reason for my comment, I have done some amatuer research on this in three different lakes. In the first one the water was very coloured and unless the carp have infra red vision they couldnt see the line even if it was luminous yellow as one of the previous posts mentioned. Saying that I have caught carp using the yellow amnesia as shock leader as I had forgotten the black, so thats the first one dealt with.

The second lake I tried the line test in was totally clear, the water was like glass to look into. I will admit that the line could be seen quite easily and I worried about it a bit. I tried green line first and i could see it easily. I then tried clear line and that was better but, and this is the crutch of the matter, after about half an hour all the little particles that float about in the water began to attach themselves to the line until after a while the line looked like thin rope. Now this was a bit of a suprise as I hadnt even thought of this but I tried different coloured lines and they all behaved the same. The only thing that I can think was that if you had some sort of line that didnt allow any static or whatever properties it is that makes these particles attach themselves to the line then that would obviously solve the problem but as I havent found anything like that I think the problem will stay with us until someone finds something.

The hook link however is a different matter. If you are fishing in silt then the colour doesnt matter really. If however you are fishing in fine weed over gravel then I would prefer a green hook link. So there you hacve my opinions a camouflaged hook link is good, mainline colour is immaterial.

Andy

[SAMR]

Good observation on the mainline thing mate!
I think that the only thing that we can do to solve this is to use a longer leader of leadcore / tubing to make sure the area around the hooklength is consealed.
Invisible tight lines
Sam

[scorpio]

I keep seeing this lead core thing mentioned, would it be cheaper for you to use a length of Hi-D fly line instead? It sinks like a stone. The only problem I can see with it would be attaching it. If anyone wants any advice on this private message me.

Tony

[SAMR]

i think that it could be a good idea and it would be different too.
keep it real
Sam

[CarponlineEditor]

One thing to mention here about the length of lead core is that I use a standard ready made leadcore length of three feet. You do not really need any longer than this to help keep your line down on the bottom.

During the times when I looked at the visibility of the mainline I was sometimes able to cast along the bank so that when you walked along said bank you could see the rig etc sitting in the water where it had been cast. I was well suprised as to how much of the mainline was on the bottom of the lake even when fishing as tight as I could to the lead. I can only assume that the weight of the mainline (as long as it isnt a floating line) helps it to go down and lay across the bottom.

Even at quite close range the line doesn't rise up too quickly. Obviously if you are fishing at say thirty yards out with your rod tips raised up in the air and fishing really tight lines then this would not apply but we would not noramlly fish like that. In a normal fishing situation the line sinks quite nicely and the only need for the lead core is to keep a short section near the hook bed down on the lake bed.

Andy

[Sim0n]

...don't know if you remember a piece Andy Little wrote on this subject a few years ago....He recommended flourescent yellow mainline (or something highly visible), terminating with your usual tubing/leader/lead core etc. The thoery being that the fish in your swim would see the highly visible line and not be spooked by it as opposed to swimming into someting invisible which scares the hell out of them....

[SAMR]

I would sort of believe that, but i think that both ways can be just as effective. Although i havn't seen Andy using fluro line for a while now.
Keep it real
Sam

[Gaffer]

When we used to fish Stoneacres (Linch hill) and fished the big bar with the rod tips high we had problems with birds (swans, ducks, geese) flying into our lines.
To solve this problem we used bright orange seafishing line and a long Quicksilver leader, this didn't effect our catch rate at all.
I don't think it matters what colour your line is as long as your line, lead and hooklink aren't visible in the feeding area.
I've seen carp at Christchurch (Linch hill) following the mainline down to the hooklink and eating all the freebies whilst leaving the hookbait! /images/forum/icons/shocked.gif

All the best,

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