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Lure colours you love......

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Gavin Chau:

--- Quote ---I disagree.  If you don't believe me try it a swimming pool (salt water can never get that clear) you won't be able to see the colour of the lure and for sure your eyes are better at colour vision than a fishes
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I'm pretty sure thats how i came to my conclusion (mucking around while spearfishing and looking up from the bottom of a pool) - but yep maybe the fishes eyes process colour differently to what we do.

Graham Scott:
Here's my approach to  colour...
I always work on the theory that I am trying to tell a convincing lie to a fish who mistakes the lure for something edible(or something that at least requires a strike).
So I need enough colour/contrast/shape/size/splash/ speed/ to be the most convincing lie.
As an example in dirty water along the coast, big poppers, contrasting colours, big bloops, slow retrieve. So maybe big ebipops, bigheads etc

If in still clear water around the offshore islands, smaller lures natural/neutral/hard to see colours/ faster retrieve, maybe neutral stickbaits?
The barramundi fishery has gone a long way with colour. The legendary gold bomber is black back gold sides, I think the reason it works so well is its mostly used in low turbidity tannin stained water so the black and gold become quite hard to see and there is enough movement and size to be detected but not enough vision to be proven as a lie. As the water becomes more turbid, contrasting, strong blotchs or bars (like the elton John) seem to outfish gold bombers, as the colour is unlikely to be seen as a lie.
I also think colour is one of the least important variables in lure presentation. Much rather have a good lure in dodgey colour that vice versa.

Brandon Khoo:
I haven't got a bloody clue and won't until I am reincarnated as a fish one day (ironically, probably a GT) but I am still going to be attracted to the colours I like whether it makes any difference or not!

Mark Harris:
That's the attitude Brandon :).

The idea of this thread was for folks to post exactly that - their favourite colours.

Warwick Joyce:

--- Quote from: Mark Harris on March 08, 2012, 02:00:30 PM ---That's the attitude Brandon :).

The idea of this thread was for folks to post exactly that - their favourite colours.

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We did get a bit side tracked on the topic there  :D

For me, I look at a lure and it's colour and ask myself "if i were a fish does that look like something I'd eat?"

My other favourite colour is the fusiler, I have much confidence in that one!

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