About that color thing ...
... as a priority in fly tying / selection. Neil's current article "Let's Consider Perception" in the bi-weekly edition on the Home Page, inspired another experiment in the relative importance ( or unimportance ) of color in tying and selecting flies.
Sometimes it's about the flies - and tomorrow will be one of those days.
Tied a collection of flies based on a productive pattern in a random and wide variety of color combinations, none of which I would normally tie, or even come close to considering if I were really going out to catch some fishies.
But in the name of science ( to the extent that limited anecdotal evidence proves anything ) here are the flies for tomorrow.
Stay tuned.
John
P.S. One of the really knowledgeable anglers I knew down in the Idaho Falls area, Dr. Harley Reno ( the Dr. is for a Ph.D. in entomology ), when demonstrating fly tying often used to say about some component or other of a fly "Color ?? Yes ..... " and then pick up some odd ball color to incorporate in the fly he was tying.
The fish are always right.