My friend was reading a book one time i cant remember what it was called but he said that the author made reference to a water/color chart. I guess it compared the water color and showed lure/bait colors to use for that color water.

i have searched for about 2 hours now and i cant find anything... nor can i remember what book it was...

if anyone knows of anything like this and where i can find it please post it here... i would greatly appreciated it and im sure that others would also..

thanks

OVER-RATED.

Light colors for clear water and dark colors for dingier water.

It's been years since I read where someone had put a chart together referencing water clarity and lure color.

However, the late Dr. Loren Hill compiled a chart of his study of bass color vision, where three water clarities were combined with five light conditions, and bass, which had been trained to strike a certain color to earn a food reward, were then tested (I believe 100 times each) to see how often they could correctly hit the test color.

Although I once had those charts, I can't find them today. But you would know the result by the product, the Color-C-Lector.

As we all know, the problem was how it was originally marketed. The device was said to mark the colors fish "liked" or wanted, instead of those they could see best, under particular light and water clarity conditions.

The other problem, at least for the scientific community, Dr. Hill did the tests at his home lab, not at the University of Oklahoma where he was a department head. Still, the results, while if they don't totally confirm color vision, they sure indicate to me that bass can recognize a whole bunch of different shades of gray.

Now, does it matter? Depends. Lots of California bass guys buy hand-pour worms one at a time by holding them to the light, counting metalflake and assessing bloodline density. And they enjoy whipping vacationers from Kansas.

So back to your question: that chart was at least six pages long as I recall. If I find it, I'll post it.