Northwest Fishing Magazine July 2025 Volume 4 Issue 9 - Flipbook - Page 26
column and likely gets
brighter as well.
DUDE: Would using UV/
fluorescent materials
increase the visibility of my
presentation?
KOKANEE: That is exactly
what it does.
DUDE: But you earlier told
me that you can only see
color about 21 inches in
front of your snoot.
KOKANEE: True. But you
forgot that I can see
contrast in shades of dark,
light, and grey at a farther
distance. Fluorescent
material can still be
detected outside that 21
inches because they do
provide good contrast.
DUDE: Fluorescent colors
retain their color all the way
down the water column,
independent of your ability
to detect them at distance,
correct?
KOKANEE: Correct. Color is
not the way I get attracted
to your lure. What makes
me want to investigate is
not color, but vibration.
DUDE: Vibration?
KOKANEE: Yep. I'm thinking
about good vibrations.
DUDE: Is there a difference
between the way sound
acts in water than it does in
the air?
KOKANEE: Yes, and very
much yes. For one thing,
sound travels in air at about
1,000 feet per second.
You humans see a flash of
lightning, then count off
one/one-thousand, two/
one-thousand, three/onethousand to determine
how far away that lightning
struck.
But sound travels way
faster in water than in air.
Sound travels in water at
5,000 feet per second. And
I'm not just talking about
sounds that you humans
can hear. I'm talking about
sounds that are beyond
human ability to detect. I
assure you that I can detect
sounds that you cannot.
Just because you cannot
hear such a sound does not
mean that such sounds do
not exist.
DUDE: My head is starting
to reel.
KOKANEE: It is fine with me
if you would like to take a
break. A few minutes to
stretch, perhaps?
DUDE: Yes, that would be
fine. Catch you then.
KOKANEE: Not likely.
TO BE CONTINUED....
