Good info........The secret of flashers lies in the mechanisms salmon use to find their prey. Salmon, like other fish, have five sensing mechanisms they use to find their prey. Sight, smell, sound, lateral line vibration sensors and electric field sensor cells which can detect nerve pulses emitted from bait fish. The lateral line is by far the most important of these. Along a salmon's side and on top of his head he has rows of nerve cells that can sense vibrations in the water. When a school of bait fish swim above a salmon he knows exactly where they are even though he cannot see them. He can sense the vibrations of their wiggling tails as they swim. He can also detect the stronger vibrations made by larger fish as they attack bait fish. If you watch the action of a flasher in the water its tail kick closely duplicates the swish swish of a salmon's tail as he attacks.
Salmon sense this from as far away as thirty or forty yards and will immediately charge in the direction of the flasher. Like a magnet, the flasher has pulled salmon
to your baits and lures. This is the flasher secret. It pulls salmon to your boat. You may catch them on the setup behind the flasher or you may catch them on other
lures fished above or to the side of the flasher. No other device offers the lateral line attraction of the well designed flasher with its strong tail kick imitating an attacking salmon.
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i have fished a lot with 1 side with flasher and one side without and found almost no difference. if anything i caught more fish without flashers when using bait.
Flashers work.. stack one side with and one side without and fish the same depths. The side with should outperform the other by a significant margin. Those are my findings.
DodgersWhat was used before the modern flashers came into vogue? And how long ago was that?
Salmon were plentiful enough it wasn't an issue, back in the day they caught them with a whale bone and sinew for line go ahead and try that today see how you make out. Flashers are an attractant, at times it's the light/colour at times it's the vibration through lateral lines but it nothing more than that an attractant. Colour would mainly depend on depth, water colour, light pematration. Biggest thing in colour selection one has to remember is certain colours disappear after certain depths. What appears red in the surface turns black not far under the surface. Anybody that thinks it's the red in a hook that caught a fish in any water depth over 30' is mistaken. The reason chartreuse works so well is it stays a bright colour well into water column. There's lots of reasearch on this stuff boys, read up on it. If the schools are plantiful and thick or the water is clear you may not need a flasher or if you are skimming off the edge of kelp beds with your bait but in open water, deep fast moving schools they bring attention to your lure and bring them in for a look and attack. There are two types of lures, imitations and attractants, flashers fall under the atractant category.What was used before the modern flashers came into vogue? And how long ago was that?
I like flashers......but I also like peanut butter........damn why is fishing so complicated?