I'm with Ron on this one. In my opinion all of the colors in a pattern are a distant fourth on the list of importance, and on fast or murky water they probably don't matter at all. But I can also tell you from experience that it does matter sometimes. Usually, as Ron said, it's on slow moving gin clear spring creeks. I have two rivers in particular near me where a fish does not just rise to a fly and eat it. They rise, then swim along underneath of it examining the fly, then eat it or refuse it. I have many times been fishing what I felt was the correct pattern in the correct size with no takes but many refusals. I stay with the exact same pattern and size, but change the color and, wham.

Jeremy

[This message has been edited by JeremyH (edited 25 February 2006).]