Re: orange flies


"Willi" <Willi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
A question for you "color" guys......


Given that a trout is a VERY distant evolutionary relative and that they
see further into the ultraviolet and infrared spectrum and they are able
to perceive polarized light and they have a brain that processes the
input from the eye in a very different manner, and........... (or maybe
you disagree with this?)

Why would you think that what you perceive as a color match is reliable
for what a trout sees?

a good question, Willi, but simply answered:
You cannot be perceiving color in the same way, but some reliability comes
from the fact that your imitation and the natural are both viewed by human
eyes. Since the actual color spectrum remains constant, a similar
relationship, although viewed through a vastly different nervous system
might remain from the trout's view.
That said, I am largely with you that color is less important than size and
especially presentation(behavior) of the fly.
Still, on a lot of our eastern limestone and tailwater streams, getting the
color close is an absolute necessity.
Tom


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