Does the Color of Clothing Affect Your Angling Success?

From the time fish were fingerlings they learned to flee predators coming at them from above. I’ve seen both snakes and birds capture both trout and bass coming down on them from above. So, even as adults they instinctively flee anything strange overhead. You can see that wearing a bright hunting cap on a small mountain trout stream when the water level is low can easily scare the trout. Likewise, standing in the front of the bass boat to cast poppers against the bank while wearing a white T-Shirt may spook bass and they won’t take your bug. It is hard to tell how many fish we scare of which we are unaware.