Post colour?

[steve101]

When tying parachute hackled flies does the post colour (i.e. white vs. fluoro pink) matter to a flies effectiveness? I'm sure on a heavily hackled klink it doesn't but what about a sparser paradun.

[Buzz]

Two years ago i would have fought in the street trying to convince you it did make a difference.
This season my best "big fish" catcher was a sparse parachute fly with an orange post.



Everyone on here kept harping on saying it did not make a difference and of course i disagreed
One evening i was sitting watching as you do, fish were in a scum line hovering up what appeared to be duns. I had no idea where my white posted fly was and i have eagle eyes. In frustration i put on the orange posted one, hay presto. That style of fly was not off my leader for just over a month and accounted for some stunning fish.

Na they dont work

[Scratch]

Love that shot Mark The post is the wrong colour though.

[steve101]

That's some trout Buzz

cheers

[North Country Angler]

In a similar vein to Buzz's post, I remember fishing the Lowther one evening a few years ago, with nothing rising and just prospecting around with a pink posted para emerger.
I put a cast in alongside a large boulder and noticed that my fly had, annoyingly, landed upside down/on it side. I was just about to lift off and re-cast when a fish of just over 2lb came up and assaulted the fly like it was the first food it had seen in weeks.

So no, I don't think the colour matters at all - especially if, unlike me, you tie the things properly so they sit the right way up in the water.

I usually use white though. My man insists that the use of coloured posts is uncouth and to be sneered at by the discerning angler. Certainly I rarely resort to such base tactics, preferring to wing my Wickhams with a yarn of the drabbest brown..........matches the tweed don't you know.

M

[mikgee]

I use both pink or orange posts if I am fishing fast water as the fly stands out better, I seem to catch OK with them.

[stuartpengs]

CDC all the way, anything else is just a bung.







P.S. cracking fish Buzz.

[dwiltshire]

I think post colour makes very little difference. I tend to tie tan or white coloured posts though as a rule. I guess that is because, I am aiming for as natural an imitation as possible.

However, I carry a number tied with pink posts and use these when struggling to see the fly on the water.

Funnily enough, I must confess to having days were a pink-post has outfished a more natural, lighter shade...

[Buzz]

Originally Posted by stuartpengs

CDC all the way, anything else is just a bung

Just for you Stuart



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As an aside when you spell check your name Stuartpengs one of the options is smartypants

[twincast]

Originally Posted by Buzz

Just for you Stuart



If you PM me your address you can test it.

As an aside when you spell check your name Stuartpengs one of the options is smartypants

Wow..... I had to first peel my jaw off the floor to ask how you get the cdc to splay out so evenly around the post.?? That is amazing buzz. also what is the best material for posts guys??
Thanks.