Guys,
Wanted to start another post to bring up some other thing to think about. I don’t have the magazine in front of me but in a recent In-Fisherman in the short technical articles there was a piece that estimated what size of an object a fish can see. Experts in eye physiology say that a fish can only see something about the size of a dime on edge. If that true, can a fish see a few red flakes in a black tube or a red hook? Doesn’t sound like it but the next question is would the flake or hook create some kind of blurred pattern? Most of the discussion about color here has been one-dimensional. Here is another one to ponder. How does a color appear when a fish is looking up from below into the glare of the sun, verses looking down at the bottom or from the side? I have to say I’m a color non-believer but I’m very much into contrast. Which colors produce contrast that set them selves apart? Which colors contrast with their environment? It changes with light conditions, it changes with viewing angles, and it’s constantly changing. All I can say is in my experience there are some combinations that work 90% of the time in certain conditions. I don’t know why but they catch fish. I suspect everyone is sick of hearing me run-on about pseudo science and anthropomophic thinking (trying to apply our knowledge into another creature’s world) but the color discussion is a classic example of it. It’s fun to speculate but we simply don’t have the answers. I subscribe to observe what’s going on around you and compare it to past experience school. Good old time on the water.
