Fish Eyesight - Camo

[frodo_uk]

I know I have read some time back that what the fish see out of the water appears as silhoette.

because of course from the water you have to look "up" into the sky so anything against the brightness of the sky appears in silhoette form.

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If it made a difference then Jan Porter would have had a pretty crap match career!

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Absolutly ...jan was telling of his wonderful early yrs at the n.e.c, and about how he won his matches and about how his "red" t-shirt was tactical because it annoyed the other anglers...So I was quite bemused when he went on to plug the benefits of camo. IMO camo is just a money making gimmick.

Do you think the fish are going to look up into the sky and not see your silhoette looming over them because the camo has somehow made you invisable.

 

[ 08. April 2004, 06:27 PM: Message edited by: frodo_uk ]

[kendo]

I swear by invisible dust the only trouble is that I put it down somewhere last time out,can I hell find it.

[*Dave*]

Doesn't bother me to much on what i

wear in summer bright white T shirt

and fishing 3foot from the bank,white

bare legs stickin out of shorts, as long

as im comfortable,

[chesters1]

i walk round with a yellow flourescent jacket on and anglers catch fish with me standing next to them ,i suspect their head down looking at the bait rather than looking at the bank ,and i get within 2 feet of our resident carp wearing it but at a loud footfall there off rather than camo should we be in slippers

[kendo]

perhaps real tree moccasins.

[Newt]

chesters1 - have the best of both worlds - make sure you have things taken care of regardless of the fish worrying more about clothing or footwear.

 

clothing

 

slippers (combine quiet with a pattern that should be non-threatning to fish)

[Peter Waller]

Most of us can only guess the answer to this one! Using my own eyes leaves me convinced that the best disguise is olive drab. Realtree whatever seems to stand out from anything other than a rarely matching background.

 

I was photographing inmates at an old folks home the other day. Struck me that a great many little old ladies wear leaf pattern dresses that resemble many of the fashionable leaf pattern camo's that we very clearly see on the riverbank.

 

I'm convinced that it has little practical value but if people want to wear a uniform then why not? Just harmless, if expensive fun!

 

Saw a life jacket in RealTree the other day!! For heavens sakes!! If camo was the issue then surely grey with breaking waves might have been more to the point.

 

I just don't fancy dressing in floral patterns myself!

[dogfish]

I bought a Realtree Oval brolly.

Went for a walk along the bank nad couldn't find the bugger again :confused:

 

DF

[Nugg]

Know there's a thought, Elton.

You mention in your post about predators being camouflaged, well there must be something in that of course. It throws some doubt on whether fish can see colours out of the water though when you look at birds that predate fish, look at the kingfishers colouring or the heron not exactly the colour you would expect to see against a green background, but then look at how rigidly still they are when hunting. I would definitely say that movement would have more of an effect on fish than the colour aspect. Beneath the water it seems coluor has a definition, at least to us, hence coloured baits can have a marked effect on your catch, red maggot that Roach prefer, or coloured boilies. Of course this could be just designed to catch the anglers imagination, the same as most of the "camo" gear is designed to do.

[Peter Sharpe]

"dunno Elton.....but what I do know is that I have seen people in camo outfits on my local stillwater, punching baits out 100+ yds...."

 

Must have been crap camo if you could see them