Something I never thought about?

[Fishook]

I am looking at a new boat. One dealer told me they sell more boats in the darker (black/blue/red/etc.) colors than white or lighter colors. The reason - lighter colored hulls scare more fish! I know white colors reflect more light and dark colors abosorb light but what is your take on this issue? I frankly never gave any thought to this.

[VMS]

sounds like he has an overabundance of darker colored hulls...

I suppose in a clear water environment, the color of the boat might (tongue in cheek here) make a differrence, but when a fish looks up, I'd think it would see the darker color more than the lighter color. The lighter color would blend better against a light sky.

I will no longer wear red in a boat because I think my movements in that red color did affect the fish. I usually wear gray or white because they are cooler too..

Get a color that matches your truck...make it look good and go fishing.

Steve

[Sonicrunch]

If that were true, you would think the manufacturers of all these boats would catch on and only make dark boats.

Then thier marketing would advertise it as:

"Revolutionary"

[Orlip]

It must be true, I have a light colored hull and did not do well the few times I made it out last year.

I thought it was me.

[hovermn]

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It must be true, I have a light colored hull and did not do well the few times I made it out last year.

I thought it was me.

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Nice!

[beeonkey]

I scuba dive and if you look up at a bottom of a boat It all looks about the same. The shade from being under the bottom of the boat makes it look dark anyway.

I think the dealer has a lot of dark colored boats

[Fishook]

Thanks to all for the input. I went with the Olympic White hull and, all things considered, gave the "underwater visibility" factor a big zero.

[Valv]

You could have asked for a bigger discount on the lighter color, to help him out getting rid of them

[VMS]

Darn...why didn't I think to put that in my post?

Now there is a selling point!!

Steve