Line colour

[beemerc]

Hi I have just started fishing for a couple of months and I am using a normal Javis Walker rod and reel set. While fishing all this time, I have saw some people using coloured fishing line. I was wondering if the colour of the fishing line actually plays a part in increasing the chances of landing a fish or anything?

[51MPL]

Lure fisho's like to use a brightly coloured line to help with bite detection. You watch your line as it sinks or even after it's hit the bottom - any twitches in the line or abnormal movement could indicate that a fish has picked up the lure off the bottom and is swimming away with it.

Hope that answers your question

[beemerc]

Other than bite detection, is there any other advantages of using a coloured fishing line? I am doing bait fishing for now.

[jeff f]

mate the only purpose for it is visibility

but there plenty of too cool for school fashion victim trendites out there who buy their line in a colour to match their rods or the binding of their rods or the colour of thier reels arent there boys

[daveylad]

I think that some fish are colour blind and there are some that can see colour, also some colours are lost in the water ranges. I use a multi colour braid line different colour every 10metres and I've caught alsorts of fish on it.