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Fish Dread Phantom Red
Behavior of light and principles of vision behind PowerPro’s newest color. phan·tom - n. & adj. Something elusive; an illusion; a ghost or an apparition.
Fishing has become a pursuit of science as much as skill and the color of line can be the key to an angler’s success. For years, lure companies have emphasized the influence of lure colors. But where those companies use an understanding of the Beer-Lambert Law to make the lures more visible to the fish, Innovative Textiles is using it to make a braided fishing line nearly invisible.
According to company president, Konrad Krauland, “I’ve often heard it said that the colors and finishes on lures are designed to catch fishermen. But PowerPro’s Phantom Red Line is designed to catch fish. Next to our product statement rounder, smoother, thinner, stronger, we can now add nearly invisible in water.â€
Since we don't know exactly how fish see, we don't know what red line does for them. We know what the visible light spectrum is for humans. We assume that it is the same for fish. It is all hype until a fish comes up and says, "hey I can't see that line".
Makes you wonder how they see blood, huh! I just saw it on their website and thought those that believed would be interested. I use a leader on all my stuff anyway so I can't see the color mattering too much, but maybe it does.
It makes you wonder about color and fish. I wish they would make an invisible braid. I even wonder about florocarbon lines. I have put several lines in my swimming pool and regular line seems to be as invisible or more so than some of the expensive stuff. Back in my serious bass days, all the experts said that red worms turned black at certain depths. Now they say it disappears. Ha I know I caught a ton of bass on red worms.
Also, just because something that is red is underwater and the water filters out the red wave lengths, doesn't mean that object "disappears". When I go diving, my dive knife is red, at 90 feet deep I can still see it, duh! It just isn't red anymore, it usually turns from red to brown to greyish. So line that is red will not be invicible, just brown or grey. These claims make me so upset at the stupidity it takes to write them. If red made objects disappear underwater I would imagine all of U.S. Navy Submarines would be painted red.
