Fly Color and LaFontaine's Color Theory of Attractors
Our final dive into the maddening world of LaFontaine's color theory of attractors
July 2025
To catch you up, we've been exploring ideas from LaFontaine's book The Dry Fly: New Angles, which theorizes on attractor colors in fly design and streamside choice. You might want to get the first two articles under-wraps before this article, linked below. Basically, we set out to test some things for ourselves, and this article represents our final dive into the maddening world of LaFontaine's theory.
Haven't read the book? No problem, this summarizes the ideas.
Attracting Rises from Trout (Fly Fishing Dry Flies)
Wisdom from a forgotten book: Why do trout rise to a dry fly? Exploring LaFontaine’s lost ideas on attractors
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We did our own experimentation, here's that article.
Exploring LaFontaine’s Color Theory of Attractors
this goes way beyond bright day, bright fly…
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