Sports: Do Fish See in Color

Do Fish See in Color

Written by Cameron Larsen

Fish do indeed perceive color. Every fly fisher knows that or ought to know that. Like humans, repparttar

retina of a fish have rods and cones. Cones are used in repparttar 133123

day and rods at night. Color vision evolved to help fish identify potential food. In repparttar 133124

environment of repparttar 133125

fish,

background will either be repparttar 133127

bottom,

water itself, or if looking up for food it could be repparttar 133129

sky. The bottom is normally tannish olive to green. When looking across repparttar 133130

water,

background appears pale silver blue. But if repparttar 133132

water is off color due to algae or high water one must take that into consideration as well. Skylight becomes more important at dusk and dawn when it contains more reds.

Thus for opportunistically feeding game fish, flies with bright or contrasting colors and/or a lot of flash will make them stand out against repparttar 133133 above mentioned backgrounds. The Mickey Finn, tied with yellow and red, and a silver body is one of repparttar 133134 most effective attractor patterns. As for dry fly attractors , repparttar 133135 Royal Wulff is still hard to beat, with its red and peacock body and white wings. Black flies, because of their strong silhouette also are easy for fish to spot. Let’s not forget patterns that contain strands of flashabou or other tinsel that reflect light when stripped or while drifting through repparttar 133136 current are easy for fish to spot.

The fly fisherman also must remember that color behaves differently in water that it does when seen in repparttar 133137 air. Water is denser, and repparttar 133138 colors are diffused quicker. Cloudy days where there is less overall light will offer less visibility, and colors will disappear quicker in repparttar 133139 depths of repparttar 133140 water. And repparttar 133141 clarity of water obviously greatly effects this as well. This is important in fly selection because certain colors travel farther in low light than others. Red is repparttar 133142 first color to disappear, usually at about 15 feet in clear water, followed by orange and then yellow. Blues and greens are visible to repparttar 133143 fish as long as there is light. Yet silver and white will be brighter.

My Top 10 Baseball Coaching Tips

Written by David Harrison

If you are new to repparttar

game search out veteran coaches and ask for coaching tips. Find websites like this one that will teach you repparttar 133122

fundamentals. What ever you do, always look for new ways to reach your players.

Times are different then when I grew up, and I have found that attention spans are short and patience is thin so you need these coaching baseball tips to find ways to keep practices interesting and competitive.

I hope these coaching baseball tips work as well for you as they have for me.

1. Have a preseason parent’s meeting. This should be mandatory for every team. More problems can be eliminated than you can imagine, if you plan this meeting right. Spell out your coaching philosophy, and parental behavior at games. Playing time is repparttar 133123 #1 parental complaint. Deal with this up front at this meeting and you will avoid problems during repparttar 133124 season.

Enlist your assistant coaches and find a couple of scorekeepers.

Inform them of repparttar 133125 importance of punctuality in bring their kids to practice and picking them up after. Otherwise you will spend half your practice waiting for players to arrive, and spend your dinner hour waiting for them to be picked up.

The parents meeting is #1 of all my coaching baseball tips.

2. Find assistant coaches. You can never have to much help when coaching baseball. If you can’t find qualified coaches enlist repparttar 133126 help of parents to help you run drill stations and handle administrative details like uniforms and scorekeeping.

3. Emphasize repparttar 133127 fundamentals. The proper mechanics for throwing and hitting are seldom emphasized enough. Injuries occur when children use poor mechanics. Teach proper warm ups and insist they are performed before practice begins.

4. Have a plan and work your plan. If you are serious about coaching baseball take repparttar 133128 time to develop a practice plan based on repparttar 133129 skills you need to teach. Pick out repparttar 133130 fundamental skill sets appropriate to your age group and practice drill and practice again.

5. Spend 30%-40% of every practice on pitching. This is why you need assistants. Someone should spend this much time at every practice with your pitchers. This does not mean they pitch all of this time, they can work on mechanics and drills like balance drills, and towel drills. If repparttar 133131 players can lead off at your age group, you would also include holding runners on and fielding bunts. Players should throw batting practice once they can throw strikes on a regular basis.

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