I read a great little tip for matching colors of lures to the light conditions you are fishing in. Often, I find myself wondering what color I should be tying on to my swivel. For veteran anglers this tip is a given, but for us less ’seasoned’ anglers this could make the difference for success.

I actually found the articles suggestions to be true. A blue colored lure worked great on deep, suspended Lake Trout on an Algonquin Park lake we fished in last year. I never thought much about the color we picked until I read the article.

The entire article can be read at Maine Fishing Today. To get you to visit that site and read (for yourself) the article, I will leave this as an incentive to click on over there:

“This is a good time to talk about color as it relates to the amount of light. You may or may not remember learning the colors of the rainbow in school. The colors are remembered by this acronym “ROY G BIV”. These letters mean red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Most of the time I run lure colors of red, orange, or yellow when that lure is presented in the portion of the water column with the most light. The other end of the rainbow, blue, indigo and violet, are used in darker or low light situations.You may ask what about silver and white? I consider these as neutral or they will work in any type of light. All the other colors fall into either bright or dark. Bright lures are used in bright light conditions dark lures in low light…” Entire Article Here