Flouro Plastix!?!

[breamdude]

what do fluoro coloured plastics represent???

its obvious what the natural colours look like...shrimp, worms etc but chartruese??

my way of thinking is that they are an attracter colour. am i in the ball park or the parking lot??

i know when i use to fly fish, i used flies that didnt represent anything yet caught plenty of fish.

bream are inquisitive by nature...well sometimes....so maybe the bright colours make them curious.

been wondering about this for awhile....finally got around to asking

[geoff_abrams]

dunno i rekon (as you said) bream and other fish might be just curious and have a go at it anyway or maybe they have a swipe at because its in their face and territory. or maybe it just look really good ?

[SWANK-E]

i am currently reading this book called 'what fish see' suggested by pete s in this thread

http://www.breammaster.com/forum/sho...=what+fish+see

it talks extensively about colour shifts under sea water, river water, lake water, cloudy water on cloudy or sunny days.

basically, how your lures look in the store and above water is often totally different to how it looks underwater in the given condition you are fishing in, so thinking what the fish will be able to see as to HOW you are fishing for them is important.

go check it out, that would answer your question

[mike_mad_fisho]

gday
i think that the colour is not that important and most of the time fish will strike out of anger and not out of hunger
michael

[SWANK-E]

that book talks about ALL that

[mike_mad_fisho]

gday
hey swank e how much is that book u r reading i might have to get it.
michael

[SWANK-E]

i think it's about $30
can't remember, but worth a read, a lot of it is based on salmonoids which live in the sea and in fresh water, and their eyes adjust to the different conditions they live in, i guess that's similar to our bream too, but the ideas are all the same.

[mike_mad_fisho]

gday
oh ok thanks for that swank e.
michael

Bream are very curious fish and use their mouths as we would hands to pick up and examine things of interest. I've seen this behaviour on countless occassions, where they will swim up and examine an object and lightly suck it in and then exhale it.

[SWANK-E]

for those of you who is lucky enough to have a swimming pool, take your hard bodies and soft platics for a dive and you sit in the bottom of the pool (if you can hold your breath or use a snorkle) with your lures and see even in a few metres of water, your lure's colours are not the same anymore, even some that 'appears' to be fluro above water. True fluro should still stand out against all and least resistant to fading to blue/green

Hi Guys. Colours change at different depths aswell. I learnt this when i started diving. Red becomes invisible or very hard to see after around 3 meters. The way the colours change and eventually disappear depends on the frequency and can be determined by looking at the colour spectrum. Blue is the "strongest" colour, hence why the ocean is blue, and the sky for that matter. So, in terms of what fish see, depth is a big factor to take into account.
This is only a factor for bream when using deep divers, or soft plastics, but with other types of fishing it can become rather important!


Dave