Do you wear bright colors when you fish?

[spinner1]

I always wear drab colors.

What do the rest of you think?

[Eight Thumbs]

If I am catching a few minutes of fishing time on the way to or way from work, I may be wearing something a little lighter or brighter then I would like to be wearing for fishing. I have also gotten dressed in the dark so as not to wake my wife and ended up with so very strange fishing outfits. Other than that, I am drab, drab, drab! 8T

[Betty Hiner]

<replied somewhat tongue in cheek> I usually wear brighter colors, so that after I fall in, and am floating down river, I'm easily spotted!

[sagefisher]

Drab colors are what I prefer to wear, like tan or light olive for my style of fishing, which is mostly in rivers and streams. Out on the lake less important but I stick with the drab combo for when I am near the shoreline. In some areas, people may want to wear hunter orange (a hat at least) if it is hunting season and there are a lot of hunters in the area. It may spook some fish but the alternative is not very pretty.

Naturally that does not apply to people fishing the salt down in sunny Florida. They have shirts that match the sky and the clouds.

Larry ---sagefisher---

[Wild One]

If I was a model for a photo-op, I'd be wearing the same jacket as the guy in the picture. If I'm there to fish it's brown, green or tan everytime.

[Eric-WD]

I sometimes do, but i'm not to worried about the bluegills seeing me, I would probably be more worried about it if I fished educated trout.

Eric

[spinner1]

brown
green
tan
gray


An educated trout can be a tricky adversary
I want ever advantage I can.

[djo]

I always laugh at myself a bit because I always try to wear drab colors. But then when I am fishing flat water for bass, gills, and occasionally trout I do so from a bright red canoe.

David

[kengore]

I used to own a red ball cap I used for fishing. Threw it away when I spooked a pod of 18" browns cruising in shallow water in a beaver pond.

I had been having a poor day with just a few small brookies on water that usually produced for me. Couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. I was sneaking up on a pool from below the beaver dam. The dam was about 4' high, as soon as I raised me head to peak over the edge I saw four huge wakes leaving the scene.

I put the hat inside my pack (dark green) and my fishing improved significantly. Since that day I try to wear colors that will blend onto the background.

[FishnDave]

There is certainly oodles of merit in wearing drab or background-matching clothing while fishing.

However, what I know I should wear, and what I happen to be wearing when I finally get a chance to go fishing are often at odds.