Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #343246 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 183 pages

Customer Reviews

What You Won't See
I bought this book based on a recommendation from a fellow fisherman. The book is difficult to understand and the lens that are needed to apply the theories of this book are no longer available to buy. I do not doubt some of these concepts are helpful but without the lens required to determine the proper color to fish, these concepts are useless.

The best fishing book for trout, steelhead and salmon
This book is probably the best fishing book I have ever
read for catching trout, steelhead and salmon,
because the author, Colin Kageyama, backs up his
claims with straight forward science.
I live on the middle Rogue in Oregon, and
fish almost everyday, and build my own spinners,
and have tried many different methods.
I have used his suggestions with instant
success. Mepps also makes his spinners in their
"See Best" line. I have seen fish react to his
spinners like no other, where the fish will
actually strike the lure multiple times.
This book is a must for any serious student
of the sport, and his methods apply to
any form of fishing (fly, spin casting,
float, etc.).

Fish don't have human retinas!
I applaud Dr. Kageyama's energy and interest in this area of great importance to the fishing community. However, as a vision science researcher, I was deeply disappointed at the lack of Kageyama's familiarity with the literature on the visual system of fish, especially Rainbow Trout, Goldfish, and Walleye. (See the journal Vision Research and the work of Edwin Land for many examples.) As an example, the Rainbow Trout is known to have *four* types of photoreceptors; humans have three. There are species that are sensitive to the *polarization* of light; humans have no such sensitivity. These shortcomings, in addition to the use of photography to document what fish might see, leave the work on very shakey theoretical ground. (Photographic film has *yet another* set of sensitivity functions to the color spectrum, neither fish or human!) The definitive work still needs to be written. Perhaps Dr. Kageyama will provide a second edition.