Red Hooks and Line???

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I should add the TiO2 is a very common ingredient in most paints… without it, you’d pretty much have just a translucent colored coating….

King,

Sunscreen could make your new lure paint more visible if it were silhouetted against the scattered light source. Vision in not just seeing color.

John

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King,

Sunscreen could make your new lure paint more visible if it were silhouetted against the scattered light source. Vision in not just seeing color.

John

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very true… I thought more about this last night after my post… if sunscreen works by reflecting UVA and not by absorbing it (which I think some do), then appying sunscreen to your lure/bait may be just the ticket!

Slider, very interesting. Thanks for reposting. I just read th eother day that Seelhoff won the PWT on Mille Lacs pulling Purple colored #7&8 Shad Raps.

As Gary said Seelhoff who?? Just lucky.

That is one man I would love to be a fly in his boat absorbing some trolling tips and techniques. That man has won 6 PWT’s. I think the next closest guy is 4. He does it time after time trolling.

John, weren’t you the one laughing at ME for using my physics knowledge to help me catch fish?….

I see we have another physics guru… .

Physics is the exact reason this RED thing is so puzzling to me.

I won’t deny; if you sift through my tackle you’ll find some red, but not very much. Last fall I did decent in 3 consecutive tournaments with lures that have trebles and every one of my co-anglers will vouch that none of my trebles were red.

Heck, if everyone is changing their hooks to red, a plain hook will start to be the odd-ball and catch more fish…

Would you guys go with a higher UV protection number like 40 or 50 or just a light 6 or 8??

Hawaiian Tropic with the cocoanut flavor might replace current lure scents!

Banana Boat…

All colors fade as you go deeper into the water column. They become more gray. The red line has pigment that makes it red. It does not disappear, it becomes gray. Solution, use gray line.

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Would you guys go with a higher UV protection number like 40 or 50 or just a light 6 or 8??

Hawaiian Tropic with the cocoanut flavor might replace current lure scents!

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Ok Eric… have your laugh… I’m thinking about the white-paste stuff lifeguards spread over theirs noses… next time you’re headed to P4, give me a call… I’ll bring my tricks and we can compare outcomes…

OK guys this has been good. If we want to take it to the next level we have to talk perception. In my mind perception blends all of the senses including vision. This is all speculation but I believe a fish is aware of a lure in his zone long before he see it. You know what I don’t want to go there.

forgot to add… need something to get the paste to stick… I wonder if WD40 would work?

Perception indeed… I think

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All colors fade as you go deeper into the water column.

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Is this in reference to the human eye…or a fishes?

Remember the comment earlier about the fish following the red laser dot, would the fish not follow a chartreuse dot around, a dark brown dot around, in fact…any dot that was moving in the gravel which the fish could distinguish???

I think there is a serious issue here that I have dealt with for years. Is this marketing or is this fact.

Great discussion guys… .

This is good discussion and I just had to poke some fun at the suntan lotion notion…..

Color is definitely a factor in fishing. One color that I don’t currently use that I see a few are using to great success is purple. I’ve had good luck with red in the past and it has become a very comfortable color for me. I need to try purple too it appears.

Why colors work on different days is the question and is one superior to another in more situations than not is what we’re trying to uncover. Red seems to work well and is marketed very heavily, but purple….gotta give that a try.

Why not blue hooks? I would use those over any color due to the number of fish I catch on blue.

Why not WHITE hooks? They would look like 2 natural fins hanging off a crankbait.

I seriously think any new color hook could be marketed just as I have said and people would buy them and believe in them.

I’ve used blue hooks under slip bobbers, along with green and red. Blue in my opinion, far underperforms red and even green on walleye and crappie. Very unscientific, but that’s my perception of blue…..

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Solution, use gray line.

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