Topwater Caranx Ignobilis: Giant Trevally (GT) > Tackle & Techniques
Lure colours you love......
Travis Heaps:
--- Quote from: Mark Harris on March 07, 2012, 01:30:19 PM ---Fish vision is a subject I have read a bit about Andy and it seems there are some disagreements in the scientific community.
One interesting point though is that is seems predator fish can see in the ultraviolet light range. That would perhaps explain why outrageous and unnatural pinks, oranges and lime greens work as lure colours.
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Im pretty sure UV additives are all the rage in billfishing lures these days aren't they? Yet to trickle down to GT lures but it can only be a matter of time...
Andy Rowe:
That explains why i keep loosing my "pink sardine" GT3's, that colour has been very effective.
Mark Harris:
--- Quote from: Travis Heaps on March 07, 2012, 01:35:04 PM ---
--- Quote from: Mark Harris on March 07, 2012, 01:30:19 PM ---Fish vision is a subject I have read a bit about Andy and it seems there are some disagreements in the scientific community.
One interesting point though is that is seems predator fish can see in the ultraviolet light range. That would perhaps explain why outrageous and unnatural pinks, oranges and lime greens work as lure colours.
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Im pretty sure UV additives are all the rage in billfishing lures these days aren't they? Yet to trickle down to GT lures but it can only be a matter of time...
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That's an interesting insight about bill fishing lures Travis.
Some lure makers have been making some "glow in the dark" poppers for years. I don't think it very widespread though (yet!).
I once had great fun casting luminous poppers at night in Eastern Indonesia. We were loading them up with a flashlight before casting and then watching the glowing shapes fire through the air :)
Mark Harris:
I mentioned Shell Shaping's striking rainbow spectrum colour in the original post.
I find this very attractive but have not caught a fish using the pattern yet. Has anyone else, or is this perhaps a good example of colours being for the angler rather than the fish?
Warwick Joyce:
Mark, in the Barra scene this rainbow colour is referred to as Elton John colour :-* hahaha
It does work well in murky water. Some Barra pro's say that the red "predator" eye of the Barramundie see in grey scale, so maybe its not the colour the fish see but the silhouette and the different shades that different colours appear.
Of course the "red" eye are generally associated with nocturnal species (high blood flow to the eye shows red when light hits it eg flash or torch) so this may not be as true for GT's?
And as you said, there is a lot of disagreement in the scientific world on this topic.
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