Carp Vision
Monday, September 21st, 2009Ok here’s one for you concerning carp vision. There’s been a lot written in the magazines recently about red mainline like TFG Red Mist and the fact that red is the first colour in the colour spectrum to disappear under water. Now apparently this only happens at depths of 8 metres plus, but anglers are still using it even at shallower depths in an attempt to fool wary carp. My dilemma is this, one of the carps favourite natural foods is bloodworm which are blood red. So do the carp see the bloodworm? or do they smell them out? If the colour red disappears at depth then surely the bloodworm will be invisible! Another anomaly is the use of red maggots, most of the carp anglers that come into the shop for maggots order reds. The reasoning for this is that they believe red maggots immitate bloodworm, a lot of the magazines also subscribe to this notion. My own experience is that reds outfish white maggots. So what can carp see?
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