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Thanks for your words, Mark. You're right about the amount of work that's gone into what I'm doing. I'd be happy to debate ANY technical aspect of ANY subject that I've put up. As I've said before: . it's a technical evidence-based approach to freshwater/estuarine fishing (irrespective of where it's...

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Its all EVIDENCE - BASED info that relates to any type of fishing. US bass fishing is just one of the branches to which the principles apply. Like the revelation about LMB being colourblind. We've got our share of colourblind fish over here and have worked around the problems associated with that. ...

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Humminbird MegaLive 2 So how are we all going with the Humminbird news of 9 December? Did it satisfy our expectations? Like any new releases, we ended up with more unanswered questions. Humminbird sure was slow in responding to the challenges thrown up by competitors. WHAT WAS THE MAIN PROBLEM THAT...

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Hello Hope u don't mind a bit of input. To a LMB: The gold blade colour will stay gold. (gold has no blue component in its RGB mix of 255,215,0) The nickel (silver colour with RGB mix of 192,192,192) will change to "slimy green" colour with RGB mix of 192,192,0. Screenshot (509).png The sk...

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Technical approach to fishing –Part 2 Well, we’ve had time to look at the chart on the previous post and absorb the impact of the “evolution problem” caused by LMB not having a blue colour receptor. I’ve worked that out for you in respect of those 15 lure colours. But you guys don’t need ME to work...

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Big day for you guys tomorrow (7th Dec). Technical approach to fishing –Part 2 The previous post may have been hard to swallow for some who have both finances and ego invested in the subject of lure colour selection for LMB fishing. But its hard fact (not opinion or wishful thinking). So how does th...

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Technical approach to fishing –Part 2 Now that we’ve finally discovered that the colour red is NOT the first colour to disappear in ALL types of water (only 1 - being clear water), we’ve put one of the most confusing and long-lasting myths about lure colours to bed. It turned out that it was simple...

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Technical approach to fishing –Part 1 You might think that we're approaching this slowly and you're right. What sort of water are we fishing in? Oceanic, coastal or lake/estuary? Shouldn’t be hard to work out. For LMB fishing (mostly lakes), it’ll be this one: Screenshot (494).png On the left is th...

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Technical approach to fishing –continued Let’s clear the decks of all the b/s that’s been written on the subject to date. In those writings you’ll find terminology like hue, chromaticity, saturation, primary, secondary and/or tertiary relating to colour. Looking back over posts you’ll come across A...

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The 2 most important issues in relation to fishing are: 1. the environment that the fish live in; and 2. What tools do they have to survive in that environment after hundreds of thousands of years of evolution. Obviously different survival tools to humans because of the differing environment. There...

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Previous post contd Screenshot (484).png See the red component (127 parts). We humans see that red lure as brown because we aren’t colourblind to red. Lets put the red component back to zero. What colour does that colourblind fish see that lure as having no red component at all? Screenshot (485).pn...

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This post was originally intended to fishing on the Aus Great Barrier Reef. Oceanic or very clear reef waters. However, it also relates to ANY clear water oceanic, reef and freshwater. In fact the apparent colour changes in lures relate directly to largemouth bass. Our oceanic and reef fish are col...

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Nobody wants the calculator.

That's fine. I'll give it another forum.

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Well, it looks like WB Staff are unable to assist with info about posting .xls files. My name is Ron Jenkins and I live in Australia on the Queensland coast on the Tropic of Capricorn. I'm happy to give free to anybody who messages me that they'd like me to send to them a working copy of the calcula...

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The Strouhal/Von Karman calculator. Screenshot (439).png It's obviously the key to ANY angler being able to work out the vibration rate of any lure. THEN the angler will know if a lure's vibration rate is within the "ball park" of that which fish lateral lines are tuned to (by evolution o...

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SOFT VIBE LURES Remember how Strouhal got rid of the vibrations causing chimneys to collapse? The top image shows how he did that. Screenshot (459).png The bottom image shows that hardbody lures suffer from the same “fin solution” with the lure body acting like a Strouhal vortex suppressor. The lur...

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How paddle tail soft plastics work Vibrations produced by soft plastic lures are still controlled by the work of Von Karman and Strouhal which deals with the effect of vortices from water flow on objects in the water. The fundamental difference between a hard body lure and a soft plastic lure is wh...

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SOFT PLASTIC SWIMBAIT VIBRATIONS The fundamental difference between a hard body lure and a soft plastic lure is where the vibration generator resides. With a hardbody lure, the generator is at the bib and with a soft plastic lure the vibration generator is at the tail. With a hardbody lure the vort...

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re Part 3 (vibration rate of hardbody lures) Early In part 3, I made this assertion about the frequency that fish lateral lines are tuned to by nature. “That’s easy. It’s the vibration rate to which the fish lateral line is tuned. Do we know what that is? We sure do. The piscatorial scientists work...

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PART 3 (Vibration rates of hardbody lures) We’ve come a fair way so far. We know how the vibrations are generated by the bib AND we know that the vibrate rate relates directly to the width of A/B axis where the bib joins the body. So the first step is to work out what vibration rate we have to aim ...

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PART 2 – (How lures work) We’ve seen how tree branches vibrate sideways when in run or floodwaters. What the two scientists worked out was that the effect occurred with other shapes in water. That a vertical plate (called a “bluff body”) also vibrated sideways just like the tree branch. Like so: Fl...

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Principles underpinning ALL lures including swimbaits Thought you guys might see value in having a look at this. .................................................................................................................... What's the principle behind a fishing lure? Surely it is to trick a f...

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Post contd Nasdaq.png The US Tech Standard NASDAQ has gained 46% yet Johnson Outdoors (H/Bird) has fallen 77% in the last 5 years. Down from US $140 to US $32 in 3 years. THAT'S gotta tell what the stock market thinks of H/Bird's performance as well as what customers think. Customers vote with their...

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By now there would have been news in the US about H/Birds public announcement 2 days ago at the Metstrade Exhibition in Amsterdam about megalive2 and the introduction of the Explorer model to replace Helix version. The announcement wasn't unexpected. Just the time and the place. The events of the l...

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60 views and no news. Would YOU guys like some news on what H/Bird has been up to? You'd be familar with the names Carl Jocumsen (an aussie on the US bass scene) and Jeff Gustafsen (also big on the US bass scene). Well, they've been here in Aus (Queensland) for the last week quietly testing H/Birds ...

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What has anybody heard about H/Bird megalive being updated?

Been a while since there was any news at all about the future.

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Pages 7,8 and 9.

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Pages 4,5 and 6.

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As promised. Bit of a concept to grasp at first but its been researched for the past 75 years. To date, I haven't seen anything to put the results so far in understandable language. Took me quite a while to grasp the concept involved. That fish (and other animals including humans) have two layers of...

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Thank you Dave. 6 - 7 " eh? Your experience sounds encouraging. As I said they aren't called large-mouth bass for nothing. I'll have to look up what "wacky rigged" means. Anyway, the purpose of the original post was just to show the principle of how they worked. If fishermen like you ...

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Pages 7,8 and 9

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Pages 4,5 and 6

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Here we go. Part 3. Tom (WRB), have a look at the references to Biological Clocks and Circadian Rhythms towards the last bit of this part and spread throughout the internet. This is the scientific stuff that Knight needed to have concentrated on in 1936 only it wasn't around then. Anyway, he thought...

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pages 4,5,6.

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Part 2 Nearly there, Tom. Pages 2 and 3 show where Knight's solunar theory went "off the rails". He made the fatal but simplistic error in assuming that clams were so far down the evolution scale that they couldn't possibly have the internal ability to respond to changes, so the real trig...

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Thanks Kelly There was quite a bit of research going on with fish behaviour (not just bass) just as Knight was turning away towards other interests. Before getting up a head of steam about Cosmic Clocks etc, can I suggest that we wait for part 3 of what I found? I think that Tom might find it intere...

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Tom

Are you the Tom part of Tom Young?

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Last 3 making up Part 1

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Sorry WRB. Never heard of the Cosmic Clock OR the Bass Calendar. Have heard about Rhythms though but I don't think they're the ones you are talking about.

I'd better put up Part 1 of what I found.

It looks like I can only put up 3 pages per post so it'll have to be spread over 3 separate posts.

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These predicted bite times are fairly popular over here. Seeing that the Moon-Up / Moon Down theory originator (Bob Wall) was from US, I guess they'd be pretty popular over there too. I tried a little book called Anglers' Almanac in 2002-2004 to test its accuracy. Didn't work out after 3 years, so d...

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Thanks Mark I know that they are bite "inhalers". More commonly known as "suction feeders". Is there an increase in misses with long Senko style worms though? Like our famous barramundi, they have evolved with no teeth for gripping/holding. Expend less energy that way. Can't bite...

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Thank you, Whoopbass. I can't get Senkos in Aus. That's why I asked for help. Take weeks to get them here from US. Eventually found some in China which are already on their way. Have thought of a use for Senkos with catching a fish called a Polydactylus Macrochir ( king threadfin). Grows up to 1.7m ...

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Tank you lugnut.

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Hello all. After some assistance. Can anybody who has Senho soft stick baits do something for me please? Measure accurately (either mm or parts of an inch - but accurately) the diam of a couple of the lengths that you have and use. Was asked a question about why and how Senko "rubbers" wor...

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By Senko baits do you mean the soft plastic stickbaits rigged like a kids see-saw pivoting around the hook in the middle? They "quiver" if moved. That what you are talking about? Can you do something for me, please? I don't have access to soft baits like that. No doubt they come in differe...

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