I have heard for years fly fisherman advocate dark colors for muddy water. The whole "silhouette" argument never made sense to me. Dark colors are for clear water in my book. I've tried dark jigs in muddy water twitching and under a float without success. The colors that have worked for me in off water for salmon and steelhead have been the flourescent colors like chartreuse, fl. red, fl. pink, etc.

To help explain the constrast of philosophies, I've just accepted the hard core fly fisherman have their own world of fishing. However, recently I've heard a couple respectable gear guys advocate dark colors in muddy water. I've never seen it work though. Anyone care to add to the debate?
rich