Interesting that. For me it's the worst colour, I never paint floats with it any more. Eyes differ it seems.STUART WHITING wrote:For high banks and with heavy foliage and diffused light levels I've often found that Fluorescent yellow is more visible,:
What colour floats do you prefer?
Re: What colour floats do you prefer?
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Re: What colour floats do you prefer?
Yellow or black for me I've always struggled to see red for some reason
Re: What colour floats do you prefer?
You'd be surprised at how many people see colours in different shades and light levels and then you've got colour blindness,JAA wrote:Interesting that. For me it's the worst colour, I never paint floats with it any more. Eyes differ it seems.STUART WHITING wrote:For high banks and with heavy foliage and diffused light levels I've often found that Fluorescent yellow is more visible,:
I can obviously see reds and orange but find that a lot of the time I can see yellow a lot easier
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Traditionally I've always gone for red against shadow and black on a reflectionless surface but I've recently started to make my own floats and went in a slightly different direction.
I used 'scarlet' for the red tips which, being quite dull, does the job which black would have previously done...
I've replaced the red for fishing against shadow with yellow which I find much easier to see...
I've recently made a couple of larger pike bobbers and went for orange as I find it's the best across the range and I was too lazy to do them in both colours...
Mind you, with my eyes I've all on finding the laptop these days never mind watching a float
I used 'scarlet' for the red tips which, being quite dull, does the job which black would have previously done...
I've replaced the red for fishing against shadow with yellow which I find much easier to see...
I've recently made a couple of larger pike bobbers and went for orange as I find it's the best across the range and I was too lazy to do them in both colours...
Mind you, with my eyes I've all on finding the laptop these days never mind watching a float
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Re: What colour floats do you prefer?
Beautiul floats,i especially like the 'scarlet' floats
I spend most of my life fishing the Rest i just waste
Re: What colour floats do you prefer?
I love this colour, the best looking I think, but I don't find very effective compared with some.WickerFlicker wrote:Traditionally I've always gone for red against shadow and black on a reflectionless surface but I've recently started to make my own floats and went in a slightly different direction.
I used 'scarlet' for the red tips which, being quite dull, does the job which black would have previously done...
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Re: What colour floats do you prefer?
a nice red tip