GO GREEN – Fly Colour Can Make a Big Difference

May Have Been Wrong All Along…

When my fifth good sized Sea-run cutthroat came to hand in just one over an
hour, my fishing buddy finally put his ego aside for just long enough to ask me what the heck I was using. As my productive little fly pattern didn’t have a name, I simply replied a #8 green streamer pattern. To my amazement he changed flies and hooked a cutthroat within three casts. The reason I found this amazing is he didn’t actually see what I had tied on my line, so he had no idea what he was copying. As it turned out, on that day it wasn’t as much the pattern as it was the color itself. This outing was a bit of an eye-opener on the importance of color when tying flies. In the past I assumed it was more about the size, shape, and profile then the color itself, but it looks like I may have been wrong all along.