Attractor dries & choosing fly color

[terry13111]

Thanks for this post! Being a small stream brookie angler, attractors are a huge majority of what I fish with.

[Silver Creek]

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I've heard Borger say the same thing about using bright orange spinners when the fish are keying on them as the sun is going down, during that time of day when the sunlight is that bright orange. I can't remember exactly if he said bright orange body, or maybe it was wings, but the theory was the same about the sunlight absorption interaction with the fly.
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I think Gary was referring to the discovery that the sherry spinner, an old pattern, was effect in the correct sizes during the red glow of sunset.

http://www.danica.com/flytier/kpassa...ry_spinner.htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=EEr...esult&resnum=6

[Zack1879]

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In keeping with Gary's theory of attraction, I've had great luck in the evenings with a Usual dubbed on fire orange thread- the body glows orange when it's wet.
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That's amazing, the other day, Sunday to be exact I fished the crap out of an orange sulfur pattern and didn't get so much as a strike. It was a lousy night I'd say for both sulfurs and the iso's. not many rises and there where alot of other bugs on the water....Caught one fish on tan caddis that is all.

[AaronJasper]

I am sure that Gary would call you a liar

That fly "usually" works well, pardon the usual part. There are times where that old standbys just don't fit the bill. When all else fails in the summer I like to use sulphur orange colored spinners. That's my backup to the usual. Third would be a large rusty spinner to imitate an isonychia spinner.

The only summer "curse" would be those damn tiny blue winged olives. When the fish get on those 20-24 olives they can get really tough.

[SherpaB]

In keeping with the color theory...Black. When the sun goes behind the hills and fish are still coming up I like to tie on a Black bivisible type of fly. Its basically black hackle palmered up the body over black thread. In small sizes(18-24) I tie on a little tuft of muskrat fur about a third of the body length of the fly off the tail. It really hammers fish from dusk through dark. I have used this on the Farmington, Housatonic, Deerfield, and various Colorado streams. Its very easy to see if there is alot of glare on the water too...which there often is at this time of day. Super simple and works on both caddis and mayfly hatches.
Also, back when I hit the beaches for stripers after work a few years back, we always used black or purple flys at night. Doesnt matter what type of bait that was prevalent, we always made sure to have something be it a clouser deciever or puglisi fly or in some cases plugs in black and or black/purple. During bright sunny days white or yellow flies or plugs were the ticket. After 20 years of surf/jetty/boat fishing for stripers you could really narrow it down to black, white, yellow and chartruese if all else failed.