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why do fish attack lures that have colors that arent like natural and look nothing like real fish in the wild?
like why do rainbow trouts attack lures that are firetiger and are the colors bright orange green and yellow
It's a reflexive action. like automatically shooing a fly that may buzz your face. And if they are actively feeding, it is something that gets their attention.
And fish DO see in color.
(1):
Bass have a very keen sense of vision, which helps them to find food, shelter, mates, and avoid predators. Bass, like us, turn light into neural impulses through transduction in the photoreceptors. Bass vision is on par with our own vision; many can see in color, and some can see in extremely dim light. Bass eyes are different from our own. Their lenses are perfectly spherical, which enables them to see underwater because it has a higher refractive index to help them focus (Reference 3, 1997). They focus by moving the lens in and out instead of stretching it like we do. They cannot dilate or contract their pupils because the lens bulges through the iris (Reference 3, 1997). Largemouth bass have a special eye structure known as the Tapetum lucidum, which amplifies the incoming light (Reference 3, 1997). It is a layer of guanine crystals which glow at night. Photons which pass the retina get bounced back to be detected again. If the photons are still not absorbed, they are reflected back out of the eye (Reference 3, 1997).
(2):
The photo sensory cells in a bass’ retina consist of cones ( for color vision ) and rods ( for black, white and shades of gray vision ).
The rest of watson's article:
http://www.kicknbass.com/a_bass_sight.htm
(3):
http://chattanoogan.com/articles/article_154561.asp