Blue Fisher
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Recently I completed the build of a twin tip rod I hope to use for chub. On the butt section I used different colour corks and on the rings I added some copper highlights to the black thread used for the wraps. I know some people don’t like rod decoration but since I build for myself I want some personalisation. But this is a river rod and I only fish small rivers often close in, so I want both tip sections to be as inconspicuous as possible. So I just kept plain black thread on the tips.
This all got me thinking though, what would be the best colours for the tip section? I have a graphite blank, black rings and black thread. Dull and boring to me, but it’s probably really worrying as far as the fish are concerned, see a black pole get hooked! So what about camouflage colours, that would probably work. But I think dappled dull blues and greys is probably best. A lot of light reflects off of the water so the underside of the rod will be illuminated rather than silhouetted, dull blues and grey will then be similar to the sky.
Herons have to blend in or go hungry and their fronts have evolved to muted cloud colours so perhaps rod top sections should be those colours.
What do you think? Has anyone done this? Are any commercially made stalking rods this colour?
Have I got the courage to colour my rod tips, still tempted but sadly no, I’ll sit even further back instead.
This all got me thinking though, what would be the best colours for the tip section? I have a graphite blank, black rings and black thread. Dull and boring to me, but it’s probably really worrying as far as the fish are concerned, see a black pole get hooked! So what about camouflage colours, that would probably work. But I think dappled dull blues and greys is probably best. A lot of light reflects off of the water so the underside of the rod will be illuminated rather than silhouetted, dull blues and grey will then be similar to the sky.
Herons have to blend in or go hungry and their fronts have evolved to muted cloud colours so perhaps rod top sections should be those colours.
What do you think? Has anyone done this? Are any commercially made stalking rods this colour?
Have I got the courage to colour my rod tips, still tempted but sadly no, I’ll sit even further back instead.