12-02-2003, 04:12 AM
Hey there TubeDad, long time no see your colors. hee hee. You know my favorite and I'll just go ahead and share it with the others.
I have noticed that in the warmer months at my local pond, the largies are purple freaks. No other colors will entice them at that time. Unless like you said, the current craw colors for that body of water.
As I have ventured farther north, the smallies in Central CA really like the pumkin seed color which is the color of the crawdads for that time of the year. They also go for the blackish red which is another color scheme of the 'dads' in that area.
On the other hand, the blue gills up north like a black rooster tail or a jig with a crawler tip up.
The local blue gills like the black rooster tails and jig with a waxie tip up.
The trout on the other hand have a vast variety of enticements. You know as well as I do that the native trout are best on a variety of colors of flies. It would be hard to pin them down to just one single color or pattern although there are some generic patterns that work on a variety of species of the trout family.
In this particular neck of the woods, even the planters as well as the holdovers and some of the natives will favor the green nightcrawlers.
Cats on the other hand like the stinky stuff. Since they are primarily scent not site feeders. Some cats will feed by site in clear water conditions but they will submit more to the smell of the object rather than only the appearance.[
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I have noticed that in the warmer months at my local pond, the largies are purple freaks. No other colors will entice them at that time. Unless like you said, the current craw colors for that body of water.
As I have ventured farther north, the smallies in Central CA really like the pumkin seed color which is the color of the crawdads for that time of the year. They also go for the blackish red which is another color scheme of the 'dads' in that area.
On the other hand, the blue gills up north like a black rooster tail or a jig with a crawler tip up.
The local blue gills like the black rooster tails and jig with a waxie tip up.
The trout on the other hand have a vast variety of enticements. You know as well as I do that the native trout are best on a variety of colors of flies. It would be hard to pin them down to just one single color or pattern although there are some generic patterns that work on a variety of species of the trout family.
In this particular neck of the woods, even the planters as well as the holdovers and some of the natives will favor the green nightcrawlers.
Cats on the other hand like the stinky stuff. Since they are primarily scent not site feeders. Some cats will feed by site in clear water conditions but they will submit more to the smell of the object rather than only the appearance.[
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