On 7 Nov 2006, at 20:02, Rene Zillmann wrote:
Gang,
if you ty streamer for cloudy water, e.g. for pike, musky, walleye,
'Zander'. What is important in the contruction of the flies to make
them attractive, and to help the fish to discover them?
Rene
Make 'em larger and more colourful than normally. Pike (well at least
musky) are sight hunters, and only use their lateral line close in,
to co-ordinate the final strike. Common wisdom has it that water
displacement ('noise') is important in pike flies, but ever since
studying this research(1), I doubt this common wisdom very much.
Since then, all my pike flies have emphasized visibility over water
displacement.
Henk
(1) JG New, L Alborg Fewkes and AN Khan (2001). Strike feeding
behavior in the muskellunge, Esox masquinongy: contributions of the
lateral line and visual sensory systems , Journal of Experimental
Biology, Vol 204, Issue 6 1207-1221, http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/
reprint/204/6/1207.pdf
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