Color Selector

[short grub]

I picked up an old round Color Celector at a bait shop, it works but it didn't have a manual , I did a search on Google but no luck

anyone got the manual for this old girl ?

I'd be wiling to buy it

as always thank you all

["G"]

Its not hard to use....The sensor that you lower in the water has ft. marked on the cable so you can take your reading at any depth you chose....then the dial has three readouts one for clear water, one for stained and one for muddy....just use the one for your situation. Then read the color.

[M R Dux]

Man, that takes me back. I had one until a house fire in 1994 took care of everything in our basement. I never replaced it. I saw times it worked like a charm and others it was at best questionable. I do know it was responsible for me buying several colors of jig bodies that I would have never used prior. Some I tossed in the garbage over the years but several I still use religiously.

[kickingback]

http://www.landbigfish.com/tacklesto...s/SPKColor.pdf


I was lucky and found one on E-Bay for $20 last year (2014). I am skeptical of the unit as it only detects the light. There are many other factors involved when locating crappie and what color they want to bite. I seldom use mine unless I get on a new lake or the weather is bad and the fish are just not biting.
Keep an eye out for deals if you want one.

[Gobob]

I think they are making a newer version now , Mrdux lets talk about your religion or at least your favorite colors clear , murky, muddy ? Just playing keep your favs a secret

[CrappiePappy]

Had a Color-C-lector back in the 1970's ... sold it. Bought a Combo-C-lector (color/temp/pH) and still have it, somewhere in the deep dark recesses of my "fishing closet". Mostly used it for a temp gauge (at depths beyond surface), since it, like the Color-C-lector, kept telling me to use blue/chartreuse 99% of the time ... and I already KNEW THAT

... cp

[short grub]

Thanks guys

I just gabbed it up when I saw it, I thought it would be cool to have, not so much to use it just to have this piece of fishing equipment for my collection. lol and a complete unit paperwork and all would be cool.

again thanks guys

[wicklundrh]

We had one for years on our charter boat in Lake Michigan. First one we had (if I remember correctly) was round and had a round dial on it. Colors where on the outside and it put a pinpoint next to the color of the day. Problem was, this was long before a ton of scientific information about how fish see color at depth. That and it didn't have a cord long enough to go deeper than about 20 feet. Great for steelhead, lousy for salmon and other deeper fish.

I could see it useful fishing in water less than 20 feet, but it was a worthless product on the big lakes. I can't remember one time when it put fish in the box for us or the customers. But it was always funny to throw it down, put the color on that it said, and then fish all day with it and never catch anything while a bait on the oposite end of the color spectrum slammed the fish!

[Gomer Snerd]

Was Loren hill a charlatan?

[fished-out]

Actually, the color-c-selector was designed around bass and their eyesight. Same family as gills and crappie though. Wouldn't work as well with walleye, cats, etc. It actually gives you two colors to use on the same lure, because contrast matters as we all know. I still use it on a new lake and as the year changes. Mostly, I know what it's going to say. But I remember one year in particular when it gave me a reading I didn't expect on a lake I really knew well. I used that color combo--and won several crappie tournaments that year. The next year, readings went back to what they'd always been for that lake and the color combo didn't work nearly as well. Still can't explain what happened, water looked the same to me. Something to do with the light that year? Who knows.