"Willi" wrote in message
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Why are most crawfish patterns generally tied in orange? Except for
cooked ones, all the crawfish I've seen are primarilly greenish,
brownish, and grayish in color.


There are some crayfish (note Northern spelling) that are reddish when live.
Here's an example:
http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/htdocs2/htdocs2/crawfish.jpg . Some of the ones
I see in Mass have a lot of orange with a background of brownish-green.
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Stan Gula