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Post by mudminnow on May 13, 2010 18:01:02 GMT -5
I was watching one of the Keating on Kings dvds and he had a section on running certain color spoons and flies at certain depths. I know certain colors are visible at deeper depths, but do any of you guys put alot of thought into this?
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Post by ChampionShip on May 13, 2010 18:12:06 GMT -5
On occasion, yeah I'll keep it in mind. One thing to consider is that a bright sun means you can run a spoon with silver or gold on it pretty much wherever you want in the column. Another thing that I personally do is keep a white spoon in the water pretty much all the time. Be sure to watch the end of the video and have your ass preached off while he's cooking....... That caught me waaaayyyyy off guard!
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Post by mudminnow on May 13, 2010 18:46:28 GMT -5
lol i seen that, i felt the same way
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Post by pioneer on May 13, 2010 19:20:02 GMT -5
He is right on for most of the time but there will be days when they want what they want when they want it kind of deal and flo orange down 70' is hot for 2 days and then never again. That is why I love what I do, when you think you figured it and you say noone is better then you, you fish all morning for 5 fish when you just got 20 the day before!  |
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Post by hitnrun on May 13, 2010 22:51:23 GMT -5
I don't think it certain depth that a certain color works in, just the light at the certain depth! That is why the old Cannon S&T were so cool! If spoon "X" gets hits when light level is "X" that is all you really need to know. It's funny how we worry so much about color, when the Alewife are always silver and not glow green. The next test I'd like to do, is run all the top manufactures spoons and a certain depth but....all of them have to be plain silver. I personally think we over fish these fish. When is the last time you ran a plane silver spoon?
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Post by RedRider on May 14, 2010 7:11:10 GMT -5
I don't think it certain depth that a certain color works in, just the light at the certain depth! That is why the old Cannon S&T were so cool! If spoon "X" gets hits when light level is "X" that is all you really need to know. It's funny how we worry so much about color, when the Alewife are always silver and not glow green. The next test I'd like to do, is run all the top manufactures spoons and a certain depth but....all of them have to be plain silver. I personally think we over fish these fish. When is the last time you ran a plane silver spoon? Mothers day on a rigger, also tried a black/silver 44sutton along with several colored variations.The only thing that fired was a caramel dolphin Warrior flutter.(36' down in 45fow.) Now was that because that happened to be the current spoon being pulled past the only hungry fish or was it the right color. All the fish we caught that day had 10 plus multiple sized bait fish in there stomachs. |
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Post by scrapper on May 14, 2010 7:57:33 GMT -5
Mudminnow, IMHO different colors for the most part are just different degrees of shading and counter shading, but don't get me wrong I am a color beleiver. But I think different shades and degrees of contrast are more important.
disclaimer; there is some research to back this up, but I can never remember where the info comes from.
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