Sofa King
03-01-2015, 08:12 PM
k, so, which do you think is more important or effective in a lure.
it's action or it's colour.
in many instances, I'm sure it is a combination of both.
but, there's many days when only certain colours get the bites.
I'm sure the only real way to know it would be action, would be to run, say, a tomic plug that's say, blue.
if it's getting no love, then you try a lyman in the most similar colour, if still no love, you try that j-plug, also in that colour.
if one of them were to get more hits or catches, then certainly one could know it was the action of that plug that was preferred.
what I find more often than not, is it's a preferred colour.
I can run whatever I want, and it's not until that certain colour is put on, that the fish than react.
but, without being able to even see if there are fish down there even seeing the lures, one really doesn't know.
without that visual affirmation, we don't even know if our presentations were put in front of the fishes eyes.
definitely a productive lake would make it easiest to deduce as well.
I've seen some guys' videos, where they have the camera down on their rigger and see the fish coming in.
many times a fish will come in to the lures action, but will swim up alongside it, nudge it and bump it, then swim away.
if one were in a lake that that could be repeated frequently enough, and then be able to change the lure to just a different colour version to see if they react differently to the colour, that would sure be a telling method.
or same in the other scenario, run a pink lyman, switch to a pink j-plug, and then to a pink tomic.
it would be cool to see the different responses from the fish.
that's really the only way of truly knowing.
simply running one lure and getting no love for hours, then switching to a different lure or colour and getting a fish doesn't tell the whole story.
one would have to be positive that those unproductive lures were indeed being seen by fish in the first place.
another thing that makes me lean more toward colour, is the difference in fishing flies.
dragging a fly behind the boat, there's really no action to it.
some flys they just aren't interested in.
then after switching through a few different ones, bang, they respond.
again though, even though there's no real action, there's the fly pattern that could be the difference.
one would have to be sure the pattern and size is the same and it was really the colour change.
and that's usually the case with buck-tailing.
it's definitely more a colour thing.
having the visual confirmation is the telling thing.
and casting a spoon usually does that.
with dollies/bulls I see it a lot.
same spoons, but it's always not until that right colour one gets tossed out that they hammer it.
saw the same with a big rainbow last year.
it was on a drop where an inflow drains in to the lake.
I sat on the one side of the flow and cast across it.
lure after lure passing through the same spot couldn't entice him to move.
it wasn't until that "it" colour one was tossed across, that he then responded to it as it went by.
it's action or it's colour.
in many instances, I'm sure it is a combination of both.
but, there's many days when only certain colours get the bites.
I'm sure the only real way to know it would be action, would be to run, say, a tomic plug that's say, blue.
if it's getting no love, then you try a lyman in the most similar colour, if still no love, you try that j-plug, also in that colour.
if one of them were to get more hits or catches, then certainly one could know it was the action of that plug that was preferred.
what I find more often than not, is it's a preferred colour.
I can run whatever I want, and it's not until that certain colour is put on, that the fish than react.
but, without being able to even see if there are fish down there even seeing the lures, one really doesn't know.
without that visual affirmation, we don't even know if our presentations were put in front of the fishes eyes.
definitely a productive lake would make it easiest to deduce as well.
I've seen some guys' videos, where they have the camera down on their rigger and see the fish coming in.
many times a fish will come in to the lures action, but will swim up alongside it, nudge it and bump it, then swim away.
if one were in a lake that that could be repeated frequently enough, and then be able to change the lure to just a different colour version to see if they react differently to the colour, that would sure be a telling method.
or same in the other scenario, run a pink lyman, switch to a pink j-plug, and then to a pink tomic.
it would be cool to see the different responses from the fish.
that's really the only way of truly knowing.
simply running one lure and getting no love for hours, then switching to a different lure or colour and getting a fish doesn't tell the whole story.
one would have to be positive that those unproductive lures were indeed being seen by fish in the first place.
another thing that makes me lean more toward colour, is the difference in fishing flies.
dragging a fly behind the boat, there's really no action to it.
some flys they just aren't interested in.
then after switching through a few different ones, bang, they respond.
again though, even though there's no real action, there's the fly pattern that could be the difference.
one would have to be sure the pattern and size is the same and it was really the colour change.
and that's usually the case with buck-tailing.
it's definitely more a colour thing.
having the visual confirmation is the telling thing.
and casting a spoon usually does that.
with dollies/bulls I see it a lot.
same spoons, but it's always not until that right colour one gets tossed out that they hammer it.
saw the same with a big rainbow last year.
it was on a drop where an inflow drains in to the lake.
I sat on the one side of the flow and cast across it.
lure after lure passing through the same spot couldn't entice him to move.
it wasn't until that "it" colour one was tossed across, that he then responded to it as it went by.