Nanoscience to the rescue with line flash a thing of the past, and night fishing about to get a boost.

Scientists have leveraged carbon nanotubes to make the blackest black, almost 30 times darker than the current standard.  Light absorption would be a useful tool to cut line flash, it’d be the Stealth Fighter of fly lines.

Black is also the most visible color in deep water, as each wavelength of light is successively filtered out as depth increases; the “hot” colors are the first to go, leaving the darkest colors the most distinct silhouette. At depth, a “blacker” black would actually be more visible than any other color in the spectrum.

I was hoping the Stealth “radar absorbing” paint would be commercially available – now I’m thinking of mixing the two to make the ultimate fishing muscle car, you can’t clock me on radar, and once I kill the lights I’m invisible. Limits my driving to nighttime but that frees days for more fishing.