Hmmm, not to quarrel with my Dutch friend, but I believe the initial
conditions of this experiment were "cloudy water." Under such
conditions, surely "close in" IS the situation.
Nonetheless, while I'm always loathe to quarrel with scientific
investigation, the next time I see a pike come from 20 meters to attack
a Dahlberg Diver, I'll advise it that it should really wait to see the
fly before being so impetuous. :-)
Paul
Henk Verhaar wrote:
>
> On 7 Nov 2006, at 20:02, Rene Zillmann wrote:
>
> > Gang,
> > if you ty streamer for cloudy water, e.g. for pike, musky, walleye,
> > 'Zander'. What is important in the contruction of the flies to make
> > them attractive, and to help the fish to discover them?
> > Rene
>
> Make 'em larger and more colourful than normally. Pike (well at least
> musky) are sight hunters, and only use their lateral line close in,
> to co-ordinate the final strike. Common wisdom has it that water
> displacement ('noise') is important in pike flies, but ever since
> studying this research(1), I doubt this common wisdom very much.
> Since then, all my pike flies have emphasized visibility over water
> displacement.
>
> Henk
>
> (1) JG New, L Alborg Fewkes and AN Khan (2001). Strike feeding
> behavior in the muskellunge, Esox masquinongy: contributions of the
> lateral line and visual sensory systems , Journal of Experimental
> Biology, Vol 204, Issue 6 1207-1221, http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/
> reprint/204/6/1207.pdf
>
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