About the only time I use the fluorescent orange is when I make it as a stand alone bait color because of the bleeding, or if I am going to use the baits right away when it's used as a tail color. Honestly the only time I have noticed bleeding with the X2 Fluor orange is when I have stored baits that I have used it as a tail color. Three or four weeks I am good. Six months and it is a different story.