Field testing jigs

[skiptomylu]

Well my original like is not working still, but here are a few of the indications that fish do see colors and are not color blind. Lots of great info on these links for you to come to your own decision.
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Fish See in Colors

You may have to hit the back button to read this one since it auto moves on.
Do fish see color? An article by Lynn Ensley

Ah, here is the one that talks about the rods and cones...
Do Fish See in Color

Fishing Lures/Fish of the Great Lakes by Wisconsin Sea Grant

What do fish see?

Make your own decisions on what you believe, but if you read all of these I would think you may have more sight into this, LOL!

[snake River]

Very interesting skip I read all the literature and I will not make any comment right now I want to see what the rest of guys think after they read the information. But very excellent skip thank you.

[rocket rich]

I Thinkthere's A Little Too Much Color On The Market. Colors Catch Fisherman Not Fish. Painted Jig Head Is A Myth I Never Use Painted Heads And Can Fish Along Side Of Most Good Crappie Fisherman With Little More Then 4-6 Colors And 1/16 Jig Head #4 Hook

[hays47]

Here is all I know while not a BIG believer in any certain color. One year in Canada only a flouresent PINK jig head worked. Out of 20 guys at the camp 21 counting the owner I was the only one with the pink jig heads.

The last four days I was the only one catching Walleyes from that particular lake at that particular time. They were nothing special just 1/16 oz heads tipped with minnow. The first 3 days of our 7 day trip I caught the most walleyes. As stated before the last 4 days I was the ONLY one that caught walleye.


The day we left I gave all 6 pinkies I had to camp owner/operator. You would have thought I gave him 6 ounces of gold.

[fish_4_all]

Locally, mute colors do not catch crappie here. Red and white, pink and white and orange and white catch more crappie in local lakes than anything except bait. Browns, tans, grays and blacks catch very few fish. Water in my favorite lake is always stained coffee brown. I know that mute and natural colors don't work there because that is all I used and was out fished 200:3. I now have a lot of red, orange and pink jigs with white tails so hopefully next year I will catch something I can bring home out there.

Now when it comes to trout, I can throw on a peacock hurl body, peacock sword tail fly or jig here and catch them all day long. Colors, not really, maybe some iridescent, but the fish will hit them before they will hit most other colors both bright and dark. And it didn't make any difference what type of day it was, cloudy, bright, rain or shine, the peacock always works. They must be seeing something I don't because imitation peacock doesn't work even close to as well as the real stuff.

Somewhere I saw a chart of what color is seen and how it is seen at what depth in clear water. It was amazing how easily you could tell that different types and shades of the same colors were still different when all trace of actual color was gone, to us anyway.

I do know this about color and fishing. Throw a mini red glow stick on a hook in the ocean and you will catch more bottom fish. Why? Don't now but it works. Other colors will work but I have never done better than with a red glow stick. If fish are truly color blind I would think all they would see is a bright light or nothing which would likely not get them to bite.

There may be proof someday that fish don't see color but until I have mute colors that match what fish see exactly the same as they see the colors I use now I am gonna stick with using lots and lots of color.