Where did they get the name "Red Shad"

[Hogsticker]

Child birth in the back woods of Louisiana 

[MIbassyaker]

15 hours ago, S. Sass said:

Are you absolutely positive? Fish do not have human eyes nor do they have human brains. Maybe they can see colors way better or worse in water with fish eyes and a fish brain. We obviously have never figured out bass exactly. Look at the enormous amount of different colors and shapes of lures and nearly all will catch bass at some point but everyone knows not every time.   

What I'm sure of is that bass cannot detect light waves that aren't there in the environment. That's basically what it means for water to absorb a particular wavelength of light by a particular depth -- it means that past a certain depth, there is no more light bouncing around at that wavelength. Bass vision is tuned differently than humans of course, but as vertebrates, their visual ability is still handled by the same basic mechanisms and the same principles of brain organization. Tank experiments show bass can detect and distinguish different colors in the green and red ranges of the visible light spectrum very well under clear, fairly shallow conditions. But they would have to break the laws of physics to do the same in an environment in which light in those wavelengths had been absorbed. Whatever "red" looks like to a bass at 0-5 feet, by 50 feet, it would be indistinguishable from black or possibly a shade of gray (unless it was a fluorescent, which is a different process)