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Many factors affect catching trout - water conditions, bait
colors, presentation, etc.
Bottom line? Have a good time fishing
and enjoy your day.
General information
Trout Vision
Trout Smell
Trout Hearing
Water & Habitat
Trout Baits
Rod/Line Setups
General Trout Vision
Easy Summary - Clear
water.
(This
is a best effort on summary. There are
many other variables for color selection
- to many for me to include as then it
would get confusing for you. This is a
good baseline to understanding color and
water as a fish sees it. If you really
want to absorb some serious data and
understand how the pro's choose their
colors for fishing, read all of the
supportive documentation linked here and
spin your brain)
1. Early Morning: Day Break to 8:00 -
Greens, Blues, Purples.
2. Mid
Morning: 8:30-10:30 - Orange, Yellow,
Green, Blue, *Pink, *Chartruese.
3.
Noon: 11:00-1:00 - Red, Oranges,
Yellows *Pinks, *Chartruese
4. Mid
Afternoon: 2:00-4:00 - Oranges, Yellows,
Greens, Blues, *Pink, *Chartruese.
5. Late Afternoon: 5:00-Sunset -
Greens, Blues, Purples.
6. During
Dusk, Night and Dawn: Chartruese/White,
Yellow/White, Red/White with White being
a stripe.
Basically Chartreuse,
yellow and red colors will show up as
black being the predominate color with
depth and lower light.
Water
chart below: use clear water at noon
chart. Divide each color depth in half
for each hour before/after noon (peak
sun)
Cloudy days are a major factor
in color depth. Longer wavelength (reds,
oranges, yellow colors fades to black
and intensity also drops with depth.
Thus at 5 ft yellow is more intense but
at 30 feet still looks yellow.
*Pink and Chartruese have a natural UV
reflective characteristic thus go deeper
along UV lines than reds/oranges/yellows
Contrast of colors, size and shape
are also very important. Read more about Trout
Baits here.
A little more detailed Summary of how
trout see:
1. Trout
move up and down according to intensity
of light and temperature in water - Trout
Environment
2. Trout cannot
see down. They can see 320 degrees
around them and 97 degrees in front.
3. Trout can see colors more vividly
than we do and color fades and decreases
intensity with depth till it turns black
colored.
4. Trout can see
different shades of color and
distinction is best first with blues
then greens and so on up the spectrum.
5. Trout can see up to 15-20 ft with
clarity and then items become blurred
and colors fade.
6. Trout vision
is limited to 2.26 x depth. If a trout
is 2 ft down they can only see clarity
up to 4.5 ft
7. Trout like people
have cones for vision. Also a 4th cone,
those under 2 years of age, can see
Ultraviolet
8. From Dusk to dawn
the eyes color cones stop working and
eye rods becomes active.
Then
they see black/white with black being
the most visible thus black and white
colors are best to use.
9.
Chartruese and Pink colors have natural
UV reflective characteristics thus
extending depth of its same normal
color.
10. In stained or algae'd
water UV is useless with blues and
purples greatly diminished and green is
seen best.
11. Glitter, Silver, Gold,
Flashy is seen much in longer distances.
This attracts fish to come closer.
12. Cloudy and Turbid waters will reduce
color depth.
What can trout see - Class Code 206
Color Vision in trout - Class Code 406
Understanding Color Loss Underwater
Sight in Fish
Color accurate underwater imaging
Water and Light in Underwater Photography
Shining a Light on UV Materials
Water Colors
Water Clarity Measurements
Fishing Gene - Trout Vision Posts
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