Awesome fly. But prawns aren't purple, blue, & pink?! I'm really fascinated by the culture around steelhead fly colors. I don't know if Steelhead like those colors or if Steelhead fisherman do but either way it's a good looking fly.
Not trying to replicate color's necessary more siloute, color is just used to piss them off and make them hit it in a territorial response. And well it looks damm good and that doesn't hurt either
There is a bunch of reasons for crazy colour choice, Fresh fish,fish miles up river, winter/summer fish .. all have different states of being... Normally its as aaron said. The colour is just so the fish notices it easily. This big nasty purple prawn will soon intrude on his/her space in the river. They swam hard to reach this spot some don't wanna give it up. Though some will look to camoflauge there fly so it surprises the fish. The sky and river bottoms play rolls in these areas I,E camo or contrast with the sky or river bottom. The fresh fish might even be in feeding mode as it was eating just yesterday or summer fish who is eating things like the odd egg/caddis..... The pink gives contrast and helps with sight. normally flies have a ''hotspot'' for contrast.
Thanks for sharing. All the best, Sean
Awesome fly. But prawns aren't purple, blue, & pink?! I'm really fascinated by the culture around steelhead fly colors. I don't know if Steelhead like those colors or if Steelhead fisherman do but either way it's a good looking fly.
In retrospect it's probably the coolest damn fly I've ever seen in my life.
Not trying to replicate color's necessary more siloute, color is just used to piss them off and make them hit it in a territorial response. And well it looks damm good and that doesn't hurt either
There is a bunch of reasons for crazy colour choice, Fresh fish,fish miles up river, winter/summer fish .. all have different states of being... Normally its as aaron said. The colour is just so the fish notices it easily. This big nasty purple prawn will soon intrude on his/her space in the river. They swam hard to reach this spot some don't wanna give it up. Though some will look to camoflauge there fly so it surprises the fish. The sky and river bottoms play rolls in these areas I,E camo or contrast with the sky or river bottom.
The fresh fish might even be in feeding mode as it was eating just yesterday or summer fish who is eating things like the odd egg/caddis..... The pink gives contrast and helps with sight. normally flies have a ''hotspot'' for contrast.