NorthForNigthts

I know this is an old thread, but I use all three as well almost exclusively when it comes to fluoro. Red Label is more than good enough for everyday fishing. Very good for the price. I use AbrazX for when I'm doing competitive fishing - tournaments, online challenges, etc, or when I'm using an expensive swimbait in a lake I know has lots of muskie or pike. It's great for me, but I could see it not being for everyone. It's very stiff, and tough to tie in large sizes. Never use too much on your spool. I once tied a really long leader (10 yards or so) and after a day of fishing it actually cut through the 50lb braid on the spool beneath it. Dad uses InvizX, because he's a big spinning guy. It really does feel like mono as others have claimed. Super soft. Makes me question if you could just get away with real mono for half the price.

I use a Lews Speed Spool on an Abu Garcia Veritas for my swimbaits. Love them both. Can't go wrong with either

Lure color, especially for sinking or deep diving baits. If lure colour really mattered as much as manufacturers claimed, they'd make almost all deep diving crankbaits black/blue, or white. That's just how the color spectrum works. Truth is, almost everything between orange and purple on the colour spectrum looks the same in 20+ feet.

Smallmouth like cover too, just not lily pads and weed beds like largemouth do. Smallies love hiding under fallen/sunken trees, rocks, random man made structure, etc.

Smallmouth are my favourite fish to catch, and largemouth my second, but the gap is big. Here in Ontario (Canada) I fish mainly Muskoka, Haliburton, the Kawarthas, and Lake Simcoe, and largemouth just don't typically get that big up here, although they are very abundant. Smallmouth on the other hand have quantity and quality. We've got hundreds and hundreds of deep, clear, high dissolved oxygen lakes so they're always nice and healthy. Catching a half dozen 5-6+ pounders in a single outing is normal on parts of Lake Simcoe, for example. I'm sure if I lived in Texas, or the Deep South I'd like largemouth more...