Why Would A Purple And Olive Green Woolybugger Catch Fish ?

[timsfly]

Why is olive such a good color at R.R. and other area creeks ?

I use an olive/pearl/purple/grizzly woolybugger with a few pieces of

olive/pearl or just plaing pearl flash on a #6-#14 long(3X or 4X)

hook and sometimes catch fish all day long, this little minnow

hit the olive/pearl/purple woolybugger in a #14, so I guess they are

eating each other as well, but with the purple in this little minnow

and that dk green(olive) back, is it any wonder why this weird combo

works so well, I've caught a lot of nice rainbows on this color combo

about 10 minuted before I caught this minnow, I released a nice 4lb

rainbow on the same fly.

Just food for thought, and don't ask me what kind of minnow that is in

the pic, I just call them shiners, or a darter, but I don't really know

its true name, but R.R. is full of them, we also refer to them as brown

trout candy

[FishinCricket]

The answer to your question in the thread title seems pretty obvious in light of that photo, doesn't it?

[timsfly]

The answer to your question in the thread title seems pretty obvious in light of that photo, doesn't it?

I know, but people look at me in the store, like I'm nuts when I tell them a purple bugger

with an olive back might catch them some fish, so I figured I had a fine speciman on my hook

take a pic and you know, let em see it seemed a good idea at the time.

[eric1978]

Because anything that looks better than puppy chow works in a trout park?

[laker67]

Because anything that looks better than puppy chow works in a trout park?

Them park fish think that is a full size wild trout swimming around.

[timsfly]

Them park fish think that is a full size wild trout swimming around.

Puppy chow is to big, you should know better, rabbit feed is a lot closer to a trout pellet, in size.

[Trout Commander]

Them park fish think that is a full size wild trout swimming around.

Park fish don't think.

[laker67]

Park fish don't think.

That's exactly why I like them, I specialize in catching dumb fish. The rest of you guys can have "all" of the smart ones. lol

[DaddyO]

Amen, Thom!

[laker67]

I sometimes tell my non fishing friends that I am going trout fishing. "OK" they say ... I am going to a stream that is 40 degrees, putting on waders and wading out to my butt, tying on a really small artificail fly, throwing it out into the stream with a $ 300 fly rod, landing it and then admiring it and then releasing it back into the stream etc etc.

One of my friends once asked me "why" when I showed him the midges that I had tied for a upcoming trip. Honestly I may be dumber than the fish but few things are more relaxing to me and rewarding at the end of the day. I struggle to explain the why but who really need to understand the reason but me.

I can tell that you and I fish for exactly the same reason Thom.