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| Hey everybody, just wondering what people think of dark colours for dark days and bright colour for bright days? everyone seems to have a different opinion and wanted to get some opinions off of this great forum. thanks |
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Location: WI | I've seen chartreuse do well on overcast days. |
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| What is going to show up best? A dark lure against a dark background? Or a dark lure against a bright background? Same with the bright lures. Do you want a contrast or not? |
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Location: Minnetonka | I guess it depends on your definition of "bright". On sunny days, my definition of bright is gold or silver. On cloudy days, I tend to lean toward the more opaque colors... any kind of paint. Black, in my experience, has been quite universal, performing on bright and sunny days alike.
Good question... "Do you want contrast?" I don't really know for sure, but Jim Saric says no... he wants the bait to remain rather mysterious in its appearance, which can really depend on light levels and water clarity. I use extreme color contrast in dark water and on moonless nights. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | When looking at the dark day, dark lure, bright day, bright lure axiom first published by Jason Lucas...many years ago, it's necessary to understand the why of it to select the correct colors. A dark day is 'dark' because it;s cloudy. Muskies look up all the time, so the background is the sky. The sky on a dark day is grey to white, contrasting a dark lure well.
The water column filters out colors rapidly absorbing the light wavelengths as heat energy. On a bright day, those colors are also effected by wave action, which breaks up the light. The sky on a bright day is by default a blue to violet, depending on how deep the fish is. A 'bright' color will show up really well against that darker background...except for blues and violets. Those are bright day colors for fish that spend alot of time feeding on bottom critters....different deal.
White is the representation of all colors. It will be visible no matter what, but will not work as well on a dark day. Black is the absence of all light, and will always be visible.
Some colors are compound (green is yellow and blue, orange is red and yellow), and the base color USED TO CREATE THE COMPOUND COLOR will determine if it's a light color or dark. You'll have to look at the bait against a dark/light background in low light to be sure.
Spend some time messing around with your lures in very low light and categorize them in the box accordingly.
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Location: Eagan, MN | I think color is overrated, but I really like how you spell it. |
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| sorry I'm canadian |
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Location: Eagan, MN | I was just kidding, I think both ways are right. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Any colour (Iam Canadian) is OK as long as I can see it |
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Location: Richfield, MN | I had a interesting chat with Larry Dahlburg at Thornes Spring sale. When asking about colors this is actually the last thing he looks at when picking lures. He seemed to be more interested in action than with color.
That caught me off guard a little. But he stated it several times during our chat that color is one of his least important aspects of what he looks at in a lure!!!! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | For me, the lure's contrast is critical. Muskies are sight feeders, important to offer as clear a target as I can. |
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Location: Beaver County, Pennsylvania | i prefer my colors to blend in with the water.....it's hard to explain. i want the fish to see it but at the same time not look out of place. i'm writing this as i watch a video of doug johnson smash a 45+ fish on a bright pink topwater. hahahaha |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | That means hard to see. None of the lures out there mimic anything in nature when it comes down to it. It's because they don't they get hit more times than not. |
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