Ice line question

[eric0784]

So I'm kinda new to ice fishing. I have done it a few times a couple of years ago with some friends for school but that was about it. I'm getting back into it this year and was stocking up on some ice fishing stuff. I was just going to use normal 4lb mono for my jigging rod and 6lb for my tip up leaders. I noticed there is special red ice fishing mono. Is there any difference? I know the package says red is "invisible" under ice but is this true or is this something made to attract fisherman instead of fish?

Thanks!

[Lobes]

I've learned the hard way that fish can and do see colored line. It works very good as long as you use about a 6' leader of clear mono. the advantage of colored line is from watching your line to detect bites. Sometimes it's the only way to detect a bite when your line does something different, either moves when it should be still or it stops when it should be moving, or anything different.

                                                         
NBG