"Dr Epstein" wrote in message
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"RichZ" wrote in message
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Dr Epstein wrote:

Does anyone besides me remeber a color-meter gadget that was sold
about
20
years ago?
You rolled the cable down into the water and a gauge told you the best
color
lure to use.


Sure. And I also remember when Dick Sternberg of the old Hunting &
Fishing Library line up 7 of them next to each other and got 6 different
colors.

Ha! I knew that thing didn't work!


Not knowing the principal of how it determines which colors to use I'd have
to say the comparisons show a pretty bad discrepancy, but the idea may be
sound. Its pretty well known that some conditions seem to work better with
certain colors. Its also known that there are lots of exceptions.

I know there are devices that can pretty accurately determine a color. Like
a spectrophotometer used in a paint store to color match from an existing
color sample. I suppose some variety of that principle might be applied in
the field to determine which colors are most visible and recognizable from a
known color sample. i.e. Red looks black. Nope. White looks gray.
Nope. Blue looks blue. Maybe. Violet looks vividly violet. Yep.

Something along those lines.

I do have a problem with the idea that it can be done cost effectively with
the relatively low price and low production numbers we see with this
product. The spectrophotometer we had when I worked in the paint store was
thousands of dollars and weighed a lot more than I would want to have to
lift in and out of the storage compartment on my boat. LOL.


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Bob La Londe
www.YumaBassMan.com