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Hi, I'm Mark Davis with BigWater Adventures. I decided to sit down and answer
a question on camera that I get a lot: "Why do you use Spiderwire Invisi Braid as opposed
to Spiderwire Hi-vis, and when do you use the two?" I've broken it down in categories
that really just consistently go with Hi-vis or Invisi Braid, and I use Spiderwire for
everything I go after. I'm talking pelagics, ground fish, inshore, offshore, no matter
what the species is, I use a braided line sometimes to a fluorocarbon leader depending
on the situation. It's really pretty simple if you stop and think about it. If I'm in
a fishing application where I personally need to see the line and it benefits me to do so,
and I'm in a situation where I can take a fluorocarbon leader and I'm not worried about
the length of that fluorocarbon leader or that fish spooking, I'm going to use the hi-vis
every chance I get to get away with it. It's going to make it easier for me. Even if I'm
back in the marsh and I'm fishing in a foot and a half of water. If I can see that line
and I lay a cast out on a fish that I can see, or I'm trying to hit a pocket, every
time that I can see my line it brings a visual cue into my brain that I'm in the right spot
or I'm not in the right spot and the mechanics, your second nature if you will, will help
you correct it. It'll actually make you be more accurate with what you're doing, your
presentations, and how you're doing it. That being said, if I'm in a situation where it
really does matter. For instance, that same situation in shallow water and I'm throwing
a top water and that line is lying down on the surface of the water, and as that high
vis is coming through the grass before the top water even gets to the redfish, with that
hi-vis theres a good chance its going to spook it. I might still go to a fluorocarbon leader
depending on whether I need it for chafing depending on what kind of structure it is,
and I might not. I might just use straight up Invisi Braid if I can get away with it.
But the point is, the easiest way to look at it, if you need to see in a spread where
you've got multiple lines or you've got the opportunity where something might get tangled
or you just need to be able to see where your line is at. If you can get away with it, you
use the hi-vis. The Invisi Braid is used in applications and situations where the fish
are either going to spook from it or theres some other reason that I don't want to see
my line. So my line choices are really pretty easy. I either use the hi-vis or the Invisi
Braid.