I always wear drab colors.
What do the rest of you think?
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 
<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!
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—
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.
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
brown
green
tan
gray
An educated trout can be a tricky adversary
I want ever advantage I can.
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
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.
I wear drab clothes for EVERYTHING I do outdoors (and indoors, for that matter). Helps you be unobtrusive, not just to the fish, but to the rest of the wildlife, and the people.
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.
Good heavens, Dave, do you get your clothes from Dubbn?
I met a guy on a spring creek in MT once. He had on a bleached white T-shirt, could see him coming for half a mile along the treeless creek. When we finally met, he complained the fish were nonexistent (it was hopper season and I could HEAR fish eating a couple bends behind him). I pointed out the white shirt, and that fish can see just fine, but he was convinced it was just an empty creek, not his fault. I didn’t tell him how I had been doing.
I’m kinda drab, and so are pretty much all my clothes. Blue jeans, brown Carhartts, black jeans, dark t-shirts… olive drab fishin vest. straw hat, or grey ballcap. I had a red ballcap as a kid that I just loved, and had a similar experience trout fishin on the upper Sacramento river. That learnt me…ModocDan
Also, whites and yellows seem to attract skeeters…
I have ONE red shirt and ONE blaze orange shirt that I wear hunting, either upland birds or deerhunting or to hunting shows for that matter. Fishing I like to stay low profile, like I try to do in life. Standing out is not always a good thing. I just want to be one of the masses that can easily be forgotten about.
I also like to keep quiet when I fish, I think that loud voices can be heard easily. Some people, even some very successful fisherman think otherwise. I’ll start a new thread on talking while fishing.
Rick
when you go fishing during hunting season, I think you should wear bright orange without any white, so you won’t be mistaken as a deer and be shot by some weirdo.
I think you mean knothead.......That's why I quit hunting......M.D.
I assume people are trying to kill me at all times, including hunting season. I would much rather be drab and hard to see than be a bright spot in the world. I’ve been criticized by hunters, to whom my reply is that it is THEIR responsibility to know what they are shooting at, and unless I am WEARING a deer, they $(%^ well better not be shooting at my drab movement in the woods. The odds of someone randomly hitting me are too low to worry about. I do wear a bright vest at work during hunting season, but then again I am deliberately contacting hunters, not avoiding them.
As for talking, only to the voices in my head. Stream fishing, no worries, the white noise of a moving stream over a riverbed is enough cover for my voice.
I wear bright neon/flourecesent…I have only one dull fishing shirt and the rest range from lime green to flouro orange…does it scare the fish? only if they can see you…if thats the case I would say clothing isnt the problem…I fish 80% of my time chasing permit…nothing can see better than permit…their eyes alone are bigger than silver dollars and they can see flyline well before it even hits the water so I cant buy into the color being a factor unless you have problems casting far enough or you are in a bad spot to present…I even have a solid white shirt just like the shore birds and it dont matter…just my 2cents
I usually wear one of a couple of medium to dark green shirts that have stripes. Looks like normal clothes once I’m in town, but I like to think that they’re slightly camo-ish.
Another note on white other than the visibility. It also attracts mosquitoes big time. I’ve been on the golf course wearing dark colors and the skeeters barely notice me while my playing partner in the white shirt is getting eaten alive.
I always wear tan, light olive, or light/dull blue when fishing. My canoes, float tubes, & pontoon were/are always green save the 2 aluminums I owned back in the '70s. That being said, my Frogg Toggs rain suit is ORANGE!!..I DID get it on sale for 30 bucks, so that explains that!
Mike