Question for Matt

Matt

In your book "Flyfishing New Jersey" under the streamer section you
speak of the power of blue.

Why is it that people over look blue? Is it that people stick with the
colors they are most comfortable with or the colors that there friends
are success full with?

Talk about a sleeper.. You should call that bugger "big blue"


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On Feb 4, 10:23*am, theartoflee
wrote:
Matt

In your book "Flyfishing New Jersey" under the streamer section you


I'll have to get that book. I live in Montana now, but
I'm from New Jersey originally....
I have a nymph I call the "bluedo"
It's just a blue-floss shank with a gold bead
and gray soft hackle. Half the people I talk to think
I'm full of it--but I swear blue works better than most
other colors. I never saw a blue bug yet.
But blue sure do work for me.

Sandy said:

I never saw a blue bug yet. But blue sure do work for me.

In the deep South, there are blue bugs. I have seen blue beetle-like bugs
that crawl and bright blue moths that fly. I tie "Blue Bird Blue popping
bugs that are especially effective, at times. in cypress knees. Blue has
been more effective for me against Big Bream but not so good for Big Bass.
It seems that there are times when nothing else works well and I just gotta
go to blue.

John

Art of Eel:

I first started to use the color blue in flies many years ago when I
was getting my fisheries biology degree. We were studying limnology and
part of the lab work we did was on how light and the spectrum behave in
water. Briefly, as you go down deeper from the water surface the colors
in the light spectrum dissapear one at a time (they turn black) and the
last color to do this is the color blue. I figured blue must be the
most visible color in water. I had also recalled the Atherton series of
nymphs where he uses blue for the nymph wing case. So I tied some nymphs
that were blue, some larva that were blue, and some woolley buggers
blue. The nymphs didn't work, the larva worked well, and the bugger at
times killed them. Particularly in the colder months - maybe the water
temperature/density has something to do with it? I don't know, but I've
been fishing Blue buggers for years with success, and the blue midge
larva with a peacock herl thorax has also taken its share of trout.

I also suspect that the many salmon flies that have blue in them, may
be effective for the same reasons - the fish can see them well.
Hopefully, we will never know exactly why, that would spoil the fun.

In answer to your question, I think we all go with the colors that we
have most confidence in - and mostly its the colors that are most like
the colors of the bugs we see.

I call my SLF bugger the Blue Bitch. Its on my blog - Caddis
Chronicles.

Matt )))))'


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theartoflee;105695 Wrote:
Matt

In your book "Flyfishing New Jersey" under the streamer section you
speak of the power of blue.

Why is it that people over look blue? Is it that people stick with the
colors they are most comfortable with or the colors that there friends
are success full with?

Talk about a sleeper.. You should call that bugger "big blue"

Used these with some success in Montana last year.

Did not happen to see the natural flying around...


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And one other thing about blue...BIG BLUE.......the Giants rule......all
flies tied with blue must be tied in Giants blue, because Patriots blue
won't catch anything but a serious cold!!!!!! :rofl:

New England is not even a city......what's the deal with that?


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Hey Skim,
I think we need an exterminator here!:rofl:


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Matt Grobert;105938 Wrote:
all flies tied with blue must be tied in Giants blue, because Patriots
blue won't catch anything but a serious cold!!!!!! :rofl:


In ALL FAIRNESS, Mr. Grobert... that's NOT TRUE.

Each fly tied with NE Blue will catch 18 little ones, but on number
19,The BIG ONE, the fly unravels and falls apart.


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babyblue;105947 Wrote:
Hey Skim,
I think we need an exterminator here!

Good morning BB.

Well, like Buckwheat when it is over he and his army of cockroaches
come out and running around a bit afterwards.

So my suggestion to you is just stomp your foot and they will scatter
once again down into their hiding places.

As always, knowing the correct tactic to employ.

AK Skim


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Matt Grobert;105938 Wrote:
And one other thing about blue...

Six days, five and a half hours till the *WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS
BOSTON* *RED SOX* pitchers and catchers report.

The good thing for your Yunkees and Mets, they had *A LOT* *MORE* time
off this off season to rest up...


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