March 24, 2009

The Color Purple

purple schmurple
Following the exposé on fly color selection for roughfish, carp enthusiast Mat Wagner of the Driftless Angler Fly Shop so graciously pointed out my failure to mention the color purple. He noted his successes using purple midge patterns in the coulee region of Wisconsin, also known as the Driftless Area. I have also shared success with purple colored flies on game fish species, but had not seriously fished purple to roughfish. Never to disappoint the reader, I fashioned several known carp slaying patterns in the art of purple. Have at it folks.

purple scorpion
purple scorpion
purple caddis
- the roughfisher


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8 comments:

  1. hahaha
    My mother says that they are "Pretty."

    This might be a good idea for all those random purple and pink materials I got in the fly tying grab bag.

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  2. @Chris: yeah, just never seriously tried them for roughfish. Can't figure out why not.

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  3. I know Pike arn't classed as rough fish...or maybe they are? but I have found that using dark purple zonker bunnies extremely productive especially in low light conditions i.e Dusk/Dawn periods. I've also caught Perch here in the Baltic that were equally susceptible to being caught on purple coloured flies. Purple is the new brown!

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  4. @Simon: pike aren't classed as roughfish here. In fact the game fish I was referring to in the article as having success with purple were pike. Double bunnies, reynold's pike flies, and any big rabbit strip streamer for pike/muskies are dangerous when tied with purple. One of my fav colors for esocids.

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  5. I gathered Pike wouldn't be. I fished in Africa for many years and spent most of my time targeting Yellowfish,Banded & Red breasted Telapia,Chessa to name a few so I find this brown lining lark extremely interesting.
    Great blog by the way.

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  6. Sweeeet! I love those bead chains too!! Awesome pattern... can not wait for my carp hunt trip!

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  7. Nice and funny ones.Hope they perform well.

    Pike Lures

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