"spoonplugger" wrote in message
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Was at a Garage sale today and saw one of these, does anyone still use em
or
were they just a flash in the pan gizmo? the guy wanted 20 bucks for it
and
I thought about it but did not buy it

Wayne



Well now, you've gotten all sorts of personal, and scientific responses, so
here's mine.

I bought something "similar" to the Color C Lector just a couple years ago.
It was a temp guage that could be lowered up to 50' into the water, to tell
you temps down through the water column (instead of just surface temp) AND
it also included a "gauge" to tell you what colors were most visible at that
depth, at that time.

And, I use it, regularly. First, obviously, to find the temp data.
Sometimes, even a good LCD can miss a thermocline in a cooling lake. And
second, I take it's color advice with a grain of salt. I usually look at it,
and try to figure what in "that" particular lake, would be forage for bass,
in as similar a color as I have in the bag. Whether by sheer dumb luck, or
by some fluke of accidental science, it does usualy work. Because it knows
what color the fish are biting? No, not IMO. But because it can give me an
idea of the clarity at 20+ feet if it is different than the apparent surface
water clarity. I simply use it is a measuring tool, just like a thermometer,
barometer, and LCD finder. How I apply its data, is up to me. I don't think
it's the be all end all of tools however.