For Wabamun and hunting pike here on cloudy days I go with my time
proven Hale Bopp Streamer (White)
with lotsa Krystal Flash on it. I find it gathers more of what little
light there is and the fish seem to find it readily enough.
Barring that, out comes the black Glowing Leech patterns.
I'll let yah know... I'll be taking a dozen or so with me to Wabamun
this weekend... there
is about 6 inches of snow.. and I haven't seen the sun in days in
Edmoncouver since
returning from Tropical Toronta where the grass is still green.
http://www.flyangler.ca/index.php?option=com_flyanglerpatterns&page=view&pat_id=21076&Itemid=42
[Hale Bopp]
http://ranger-bob.net/?p=371 [Glow Leech]
RB
Paul Marriner wrote:
Hmmm, not to quarrel with my Dutch friend, but I believe the initial
conditions of this experiment were "cloudy water." Under such
conditions, surely "close in" IS the situation.
Nonetheless, while I'm always loathe to quarrel with scientific
investigation, the next time I see a pike come from 20 meters to attack
a Dahlberg Diver, I'll advise it that it should really wait to see the
fly before being so impetuous. :-)
Paul
Henk Verhaar wrote:
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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