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Keeping these environmental factors in mind will help you change your tactics and keep on hooking fish. "Almost all animals have the same essential cells, rods and cones, in their eyes for picking up light," says Ralph Manns, fisheries biologist and In-Fisherman's most prolific correspondent on the vision of fish. Rods and cones contain light-absorbing pigments called opsins, and that's where most of the differences exist. Even when I'm float fishing (drifting bags under a stream float), I use at least one colored styrofoam bead, placed in the center of the square of netting first, with the eggs on top. Instructions say to place a lure or bait you intend to use on a bright background on a bright day or a dark background on a cloudy day, and use a filter that matches water color (blue for clear water, green for green water and brown for muddy water), to eventually ­determine "which lures are the brightest and most visible? Light intensity can change over and over again within an hour's time, and often does as direct sunlight passes in and out of cloud banks. I have found that lighter colors work the best when the water is clearer, and darker colors work better when the water is off-color. This is meant for the West Coast crowd, since Great Lakes steelheaders use far fewer drift bobbers (Spin-N-Glos, and Cheaters) and the rivers are rarely (but sometimes) green—most being lightly to heavily stained with tannic acid from swamp-land­headwaters. ", Then we have the enigma posed by Ralph Manns: "There's no way of knowing that another person is seeing what you're seeing. Given the choice trout will go for eggs that are fresh or have some milky whitening to them, but they will often pass on dead eggs. Usually. We also don't know which baits may have infrared coloring, because humans can't see it. Just before sunset, available light is about one-tenth the brightness of midday, and many colors turn gray for a ­steelhead. With the presentation coming at the fish hook first, the yarn will contrast and stand out against the drift bobber. Crankin' is almost a necessity for finding bass on the Great Lakes from summer through fall. Steelhead either see your bait against the bright, frosty glare of the surface or against some background object. You're going to get bit if you're in the right spot with the right bait, if any steelhead are in front of you at all. How can they be conditioned to a color that was hot last year? That places the float bead right in the center, like an "eye," contrasting with the natural color of the eggs within the ­colored netting. ), Kageyama sells a See Best kit ­consisting of six optical filters and lights designed to reveal which colors or combinations of colors fish can see at long and short distances. Saturday & Sunday Closed.

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