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Post by botomdweler on Mar 16, 2008 10:56:54 GMT
hi guys
recently read a scientific report (cannot remember where though)that many species of fish particularly flat fish are attracted to coloured beads on your snoods and the report claimed that red or orange were the most visible underwater to fish
do any of you agree with this or do you have personal favorites for different species?
on the other hand does anyone feel that they can actually be detrimental to fishing on certain occasions
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Post by meoc4life on Mar 16, 2008 16:33:58 GMT
green black all ways cant floor them yet
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Post by squidlips on Mar 16, 2008 17:23:35 GMT
green and black. but i have often wondered why the plaice go for a ragworm towing a pearl necklace  |
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Post by monkeynuts on Mar 16, 2008 17:32:25 GMT
green and black. but i have often wondered why the plaice go for a ragworm towing a pearl necklace plaice must be a blinged up chav fish i recon ;D red and black beads ,red cequins with yellow beads do well for me for flounders and plaice. but i think if your bait is fresh and top notch you will catch no matter what colours you have. |
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Post by solehunter on Mar 16, 2008 17:41:36 GMT
green and black. but i have often wondered why the plaice go for a ragworm towing a pearl necklace plaice must be a blinged up chav fish i recon ;D red and black beads ,red cequins with yellow beads do well for me for flounders and plaice. but i think if your bait is fresh and top notch you will catch no matter what colours you have. Yep, cant beat a good bit of bait as the best attractor i reckon, but i do use red beads as they have mostly done well for me even though 95% of the fishing i do is at night! |
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Post by Coddo on Mar 16, 2008 19:01:11 GMT
contrasts in colour apparently work well. ie, a bright colour followed by a black bead and so on.
for me its red/black, green/black and orange/black
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Post by maghouse on Mar 16, 2008 20:02:34 GMT
Colour contrasts ..... green & black /orange & yellow - these work well for Plaice & Bream ...
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Post by jaysam on Mar 22, 2008 18:49:40 GMT
well i use yellow and red for plaice black and green for flounder
but its all a bit strange as red is supposed to be the first colour in the spectrum to disappear
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Post by solehunter on Mar 23, 2008 9:27:49 GMT
So .....fish dont home in on the colour of blood?
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Post by squidlips on Mar 23, 2008 9:45:14 GMT
So .....fish dont home in on the colour of blood? they probably do with sight in shallow water and smell in deep water. fresh blood has a distinct smell atleast it did when i went to have a look around a slaughter house |
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Post by Centurymad on Mar 23, 2008 10:09:22 GMT
Green / Black or Red / Yellow seem to do the trick for me.
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Post by botomdweler on Mar 23, 2008 11:00:26 GMT
green and black seem pretty popular with you guys which seems odd in some-ways because when you consider the average colour of seawater, you would have thought that these two colours would have been lost in the water and well down the list of favourites and when you consider that they mimic lots of the other natural colours (weed etc) that would be moving along with the tide it would get right confusing , but there again maybe here lies the answer, fish are probably looking for the naturally occurring foods moving along in the tide and perhaps unless they are chasing bait fish the majority of species are opportunist scavengers using all their senses to search out food
an example i can think of is often when fishing with fresh lug or stinky old bits of black the black wins 2 to 1
but that just brings the blood and smell question into play
the answer surely is. get all this right and increase your chances
any thoughts on this chaps
oh and thanks for all your replies
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