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[skiptomylu]

Since we really don't know what crappie see how can we know it disappears for them? Also it may just change to a color they see as gills, or blood saying I am injured.

I posted a link to explain the eyes of some fish like a crappie and we have things called cones and something else in our eyes, but they have more of them. Otherwise how would bass find a black worm being slowly pulled along the bottom at night?

Since we don't really know what they see how can we discount something just because it's the way we see it?

Ah love a good question with lots of ways to look at it.

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[azslabber]

Hays,off the subject a little,my grandmother always had a pot holder hanging on her wall,it said:
Behind every sucessfull man,stands a woman telling him that he is wrong.
You just brought that to my head after about 30 years,lol.

[JUNGLEJIMJIGS]

There must be something to the red hooks because many top bass and crappie tournament anglers use them,in particular on crankbaits.Red may start disappearing for us at 3 feet,but I believe fish see things different than we do. I carry all colors of hooks in my tackle box,sometimes it seems they prefer one over another.Maybe it's as simple as what color you have the most confidence in.

[PBUG2009]

i knew this would bring alot of answers

[smoothlures]

Red line is sold as a gimmick of disappearing after so many feet, when in fact it does not disappear, it only doesn't show up as red, it shows up as gray/black. It's translucent. Solid colors are not, so you still see red, up to some point until a certain amount of light stops penetrating the water where eventually no colors will show as what they are to our eyes.

Hope that helps.

[Fatman]

It's amazing what colors look like in dieffernt environs. Think back to when the Color-C-Lector came out and everyone thought it was a crock of ****, but look back and how many people started catching more fish when they started following what that little machine told them to use.

Fatman

[PBUG2009]

thats true i seen babe winkleman use 1 other day on his older show

[brazman]

This is a link to a crappie.com article about this subject, if you haven't taken a look at it yet...Crappie.com - Crappie Fishing Information and Adventure - The Red Hook Guy
If this link doesn't work, it's on the second page of the articles, labeled The Red Hook Guy.

[shipahoy41]

If a man says something wrong and there is no woman around ? Would he still be wrong ?

Behind every successful man stands one extremely shocked mother-in-law.

:D:D:D

[waxnslabs]

Crappie

I read this a while back. Whether it's 100% accurate or not who knows. I do know I've gone to strictly using solid white marabous and need more fingers to count how many limits it's produced since October 2009.