Anyone try this Ice Fishing Line?

[Agronomist_at_IA]

HT Enterprises Ice Red Copolymer Ice line

Picked up 2 spools cheap. Wanted to know if anyone has tried it.

[bobber_down_1979]

It doesn't look like anybody has used it. I have not either. I know lots of HT products are less than top quality. Don't get me wrong I use some of their stuff, and do like it. It seems like the selling point is that it is supposed to be more manageable in cold water temps. To be honest, I have never had a hard time managing standard mono lines. My guess is that it is mostly a marketing gimmic. The other thing they are trying to sell you is that it is hard for fish to see in the water. I have a hard time beleiving that red line is going to be less noticiable than clear. I would just by some good mono from a more respected line company.

[life=outdoors92]

The other thing they are trying to sell you is that it is hard for fish to see in the water. I have a hard time beleiving that red line is going to be less noticiable than clear.

"the first color that disappears as light penetrates water is red. This is why red fishing line is so effective" -(http://fishing.about.com/od/basicfishinginstruction/a/red_fishingline.htm)

-i have also heard this from tv shows, outdoor news articles, dakota outdoors articles, and from many fisherman who go fishing daily

[croixflats]

Funny, one manufacturer claims red line disappears while another says it mimics blood. Witch is it? Id ask the fish but I dont understand walleye dialect .

[Esox_Magnum]

I have red line on 2 rods, funny that both are the least productive ones in the arsenal.

[Jason_Halfen]

"the first color that disappears as light penetrates water is red. This is why red fishing line is so effective"

If this were true, and red were really invisible to fish, then why hasn't evolution resulted in red baitfish? Red baitfish should be essentially invisible, and should be able to out-compete (out-survive) everything else in the lake, right?

Anybody seen a red baitfish in nature lately? Anybody??

[Random guy]

Thanks Jason! Now all my red jigs are no good and they where working great!

[herefish101]

I saw a chart once that had colors and at which point in the water column that color would "dissapear". The problem is a color cannot dissapear, it just changes to another color or shade. Color only is visable underwater when you are at a depth where light can penitrate. So if you look at your clarity test and it says 12 ft, then basicly under that level there is almost no color, things turn grey, yes a red jig will always be red but at a certain depth it will be precived as grey, and eventually at a deep enough depth, black. Thats how it works with the human eye anyway, I don't know if fish see in color or not, if they don't, then all us fisherman are fools.

[bobber_down_1979]

I just can't beleive that a red line, even if it is somewhat translucent is going to be less visable then a line with virtually no color at all like standard mono and floro.

[eurolarva]

My camera shows colored line where is mono is very hard to see. Camera is in black and white. The guy I was fishing with was using a black co polymer and I was using regular trilene and I out fished in fact he did not catch a fish till he put a mono leader on. I know the topic is Red but I agree that flurocarbon will out fish colored line.

[JoeTC]

Grab some red line and stick it in the sink...just as red as out of the water...red baits have proven to me that red can be seen by fish.

Joe

[Agronomist_at_IA]

Color By Number

General guide: percentage visible at depth.

COLOR 10 feet 30 feet

Red 6.5% 0.025%

Orange 50% 12%

Yellow 73% 40%

Green 88% 69%

Fish do indeed perceive color. Like humans, the retina of a fish have rods

and cones. Cones are used in the day and rods at night. Color

vision evolved to help fish identify potential food. In the

environment of the fish, the background will either be the

bottom, the water itself, or if looking up for food it could be

the sky. The bottom is normally tannish olive to green. When

looking across the water, the background appears pale silver

blue. But if the water is off color due to algae or high water

one must take that into consideration as well. Skylight becomes

more important at dusk and dawn when it contains more reds.

color behaves differently in water that it does when seen in the air. Water is

denser, and the colors are diffused quicker. Cloudy days where

there is less overall light will offer less visibility, and

colors will disappear quicker in the depths of the water. And the

clarity of water obviously greatly effects this as well. This is

important in lure selection because certain colors travel farther

in low light than others. Red is the first color to disappear,

usually at about 15 feet in clear water, followed by orange and

then yellow. Blues and greens are visible to the fish as long as

there is light. Yet silver and white will be brighter.

[Agronomist_at_IA]

Now back to what I asked. Is the fishing line I asked about any good. Does it tangle/have a lot of memory. Is it decent in cold temps? That kind of stuff. Not do fish see red bull.

[IlliniWalli]

nope, never tried it. i always use berkley ice line.

and i have never caught a walleye on a red crankbait, either. :-)

[lovebigbluegills]

I've never tried that particular brand of line before.

But, for the price, can't hurt to give it a whirl and let us know what you think of it.

[CoorsCaptain]

I used this line yesterday. We had two rods with the blue ice line and two with the red line. All rods caught fish. The red line performed as well as the blue ice line.

[BartmanMN]

It is a rigid line, nothing special. It does not compare to other copolymers on the market. I received a spool a couple christmas's ago and spooled it on my son's rod since it was easier to un-tangle.

[Carl Bjorgen]

HT Enterprises Ice Red Copolymer Ice line

Picked up 2 spools cheap. Wanted to know if anyone has tried it.

This stuff is on all my reels. I use baitcasting reels on my 3 rigs. I pretty much target panfish, but have pulled up a few walleyes and pike. I have the 4lb test on all my reels.

No complaints at all, since I don't use much else and don't have a basis for comparison. I can see it a little better when I tie on those tiny jigs.

It is inexpensive and does the job IMO.