My interest in the wire at http://www.landofodds.com/store/find2s.htm is prompted in part by the reading of "What Fish See" by Colin Kageyama.
Blue is a good long-distance visibility color in clear water, and is a favorite of salt water anglers, so I might be curious to try aqua, seafoam silver or maybe peacock blue silver in ribbing or a butt tag to improve long distance attraction of flies.
I find the larger diameter wires intriguing, as they would provide instant segmentation, bulk and weight to patterns like caddis larvae and pupae, while adding the desired color.
Having an assortment of wire in the orange-red-pink spectrum is useful in tying flies meant for cloudy, muddy or algae bloom water conditions, as they are the most visible colors (plus black) for those conditions.
and so on.
Wes Wada Bend, Oregon
Byard Miller wrote: You might find a few other colors here Wes...;^)The advantage as I see it is access to a very wide assortment of colors in a very wide assortment of wire diameters. The wire is coated, which seals in the color and prevents tarnishing. For those who would like to try colored copper wire in something beyond the standard copper, gold, red, black, green and chartreuse offered at some fly shops.
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They are coated as well.
