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| Looking for opinions on whether braid color affects fishing. On one of my reels the braid has faded a lot. Almost looks whitish green at this point.
Do you think this would affect fishing? |
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Location: VA | No! Matter of fact it will help IF the fising you are doing is with the fish looking UP and a light sky in the background. Now if the fish is looking down.....the jury is stilll out.
One tip....braid is only good for about 2 years of USE, once you use it, reverse it on your spool and you have new line again.
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| For years we all used white Dacron and caught fish, I don't think line color matters one bit. |
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Location: Minnesota | Would you happen to be using Suffix braid? Mine bleached in less than 6 months. |
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| Fading is no issue...they all do it as the dye can't really get into the fibers it is a surface coating. Severe fraying or nicks mean trim or replace. also braid does not really deteriorate with time,,,only use. I have some line on lightly used rigs that is at least 7-8 years old that is as strong as day 1. |
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| If it does, I wonder why they would hit while I'm doing a figure 8 with 1/2 the rod in the water? |
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| DR in VA - 9/20/2010 9:11 AM
No! Matter of fact it will help IF the fising you are doing is with the fish looking UP and a light sky in the background. Now if the fish is looking down.....the jury is stilll out.
One tip....braid is only good for about 2 years of USE, once you use it, reverse it on your spool and you have new line again.
DR what fish looks down to feed? never heard of that! most all fish can't look down because there eyes are on the top part of there heads. |
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| I think that was his point "guest".
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Location: Nekoosa, WI and South Padre Island, TX | Fish will look down to feed. I have caught muskies in shallower water while using a jig, and they ''tilted'' down, tail up, and sucked it off the bottom. Common? Probably not. But yes, they do look down, and will feed on prey that is below them. |
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| Thanks for the input. I wasn't intially too worried about it, but some friends were talking about it and I thought I would get some opinions.
My experience is that fish are much more likely to "feed down" in shallow water, but pretty rarely in open / deep water.
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Bleached out braid