To Catch More Fish, Disappear
Feb 6th, 2009 by Aqua Design Editor
If fish weren’t sensitive to color and patterns, I guess we’d all be tying gray-colored flies.
“They’ll never notice the difference…”
You can see where we’re going with this, and you’re right. Fish see color and patterns. They use their eyes to find the right food (and how picky they can be), and their lives depend on good eyes to spot other creatures that want to make a meal of them.
It’s the same with creatures that roam the land, too, of course. Prey animals are fooled by predators that do a good job of camouflaging their presence enough to get in close for a quick strike. Bow hunters especially understand this and use camouflage well.
Anglers should, too. Your body’s outline is easily recognizable against the land and sky. And screaming your presence with loud, solid-color clothing can’t be good. The more we anglers can render ourselves invisible through camouflage, the better chance we have of getting close enough undetected to make the perfect cast to an unsuspecting fish.
You want clothing that breaks up your outline and blends into the background environment as seen from the fish’s perspective.
That’s why we developed shirts, pants and hats specifically for anglers to accomplish these objectives.(We’re also working on a bandana that can be used tied around the face or neck.) The patterns and colors are based on underwater photography looking up into typical backgrounds and light conditions encountered in freshwater and saltwater environments. Recent improvements in printing technology have really allowed us to translate what the camera (mimicking the fish’s view) has captured over to cloth.
So, the next time you’re wetting some line, think about how that REALLY big one out there somewhere got to be so big – by being very perceptive, naturally. Dress accordingly.