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SpiderWire Camo And Code Red Braids
Friday, January 16, 2009
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Photo: BassFan
The camo version of the new SpiderWire Stealth braided line is designed to blend into the underwater environment.
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Tickle a spider's web and the spider immediately detects that signal. Send the signal of a biting fish up the line of Spiderwire, and an angler can immediately detect that, too. These lines have incredible signal-transmission qualities and can be super-strong at incredibly small diameters relative to monofilament. Spiderwire is three to five times thinner than an average monofilament of comparable tensile strength.
Of course, a real spider's web is always the same color. SpiderWire has moss green, tracer yellow and last year's new Invisi-Braid translucent lines.
New for the 2009 lineup, SpiderWire is expanding the available colors of its famous braided lines. Make room in your tackle arsenal for SpiderWire Stealth Camo and Code Red.
Camo
While the tracer yellow color is made to be seen, Camo goes the other way. It is designed for low visibility so it blends into the underwater environment. It's made of the same ultra-high strength polyethylene (PE) fibers as the other braids, and is Teflon pressure-treated so it shoots through the rod guides like a bullet. And you can't see a bullet at work, right?
Neither can the fish see this line. It has a varying color pattern to blend in with any water and vegetation conditions you might be fishing.
"SpiderWire Stealth Camo braid is tough, easy to manage and ties great knots just like all SpiderWire," said Bassmaster Elite Series pro Gerald Swindle. "But when I'm flipping for bedding fish or fish that have lots of pressure, this line is perfect. It just looks like the rest of the vegetation in the water. It puts the fish at ease and leads to more strikes."
Code Red
Red has been a tough color to do in braids – for some reason, it likes to bleed and fade. But SpiderWire Stealth Code Red has a proprietary color-lock technology that helps it hold the red color.
It has all the same properties as the other Stealth lines, including the round profile so it won't dig in on the reel.
But why would you want a red fishing line? Depending on water clarity – the more clear the water, the deeper light penetrates – the red color will disappear first, in as little as 3 to 5 feet under the surface. Water absorbs light energy in the following order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet (ROY G BIV is easy to remember). But above the surface, the red color is easy for the angler to see to watch for strikes.
"SpiderWire Stealth Code Red braid is perfect for schooling fish," said Bassmaster Elite Series pro Bobby Lane. "Sometimes it's hard to get close to schoolers, but I get a lot more casting distance with this line. It casts like a rocket because it's so smooth, and it's quiet."
Notable
> All SpiderWire Stealth lines are made of PE and Teflon-treated, so they're super-strong with thin diameters, and are whisper-quiet for stealth attacks. They also resist digging in on the reel.
> Both the Camo and Code Red versions are available in the following pound-tests: 6, 8, 10, 15, 20, 30, 50, 65, 80, and 100.
> For more about what fish can see in their underwater world, see BassFan's Fish Science articles on Bass Vision. They are located here and here.
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