Fish see colors. Clark and Goddard did a nice book about how fish see.
I ty my blue parachute beetle with a red head. and this version catches
more fish.
I tried it some years ago to use it without the red. On one evening I
had no hits, changed the fly to a fly with the red head, first cast,
first hit, first fish
Rene
On 08/22/2011 05:41 PM, J Balmer wrote:
Regardless of how fish interpret what we consider color, in 50 years of
fishing (particularly the last 30) I have been in situations where varioius
species of fish seem to prefer a "color" when offered the same exact lure or
fly in different ones. Large& smallmouth bass& trout appearing to be the
most finicky.
J
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Subject: [VFB] Color and fish, and in people
Analogy: Sound doesn't exist (only vibrations do),- it's all in the ear,
nerves, and conversion programming in the brain = sound.
Like the old saying, 'If a tree falls in the forest, and there's no one to
hear it, dies it make a sound?'
Color doesn't exist outside our heads either, just like sound. It's sort of
a misnomer that you 'see colors'. There are waves of light- a spectrum of
wave lengths (the prism). The cones in the eye recognize them and the brain
converts them to the colors we see.
Proof: 'Color-blindness' is a problem with the internal system, not the
light-wave spectrum.
Some animals aren't really 'color-blind', but they just lack the mechanisms
to turn light waves into colors in the eye and brain.
Therefore, what a trout sees is what is programmed into its internal system.
Even if they could talk, it would be hard for them to relate what they see,
because we have separate frames of reference for colors. Their brains may
interpret the red wave lengths (& infra-red) and the UV wave lengths so
totally different that we do, we can't relate to it.
Have you ever seen the photos of flowers pictured from what they think a bee
sees? There's lots of site for photography of flowers taken with infra-red
and UV filtering lenses. But who knows how a bee or hummingbird sees and
interprets these wave-lengths in their brains?
Applied to fishing- it's an open field for research of what we already think
we know and doing personal research as to what works, and then trying to
figure out maybe why it worked.
We try flourescent lures, UV materials, splotches or red, glitters, black,
pearl whites, phosphorescent materials- all with the idea of getting an edge
on the unknown programming of fish color vision.
Somethimes they work, and sometimes they don't. Science relies on
consistent results, so we must not be nailing down all the variables. There
may even be seasonal variables, like spawning time.
Food for thought, debate, discussion, web research, tying experimentation,&
lots of on-the-water-time for field research.
DonO
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