[ecduzitgood]

I used to think leaders were necessary in order to prevent a fish from seeing the line until my first time fishing from my yak. I clipped an RM Mackerel swimmer onto 80# JB hollow core using just a breakaway clip with no leader about 20'-25' from the transom and caught 2 small keepers before I realized I forgot the leader. I still use leaders to avoid break offs when fish head for the rocks only because braid doesn't have much abrasion resistance. Who would have thought such large diameter white braid wouldn't be noticed by a fish during the day, and it's not like the fishing was great either; Tagger and Bigfish were fishing the same area with no luck and I'm sure they didn't forget the leaders.
If you think about it they still caught fish back when there were no clear lines so I don't think the color will matter at all.