Question for Matt

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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