Flashers imitate.....

[salty-dog]

Funny the original OP talked about flashers imitating bait..

Because I made this one up a couple of months ago to do just that......

Haven't baptised it yet though.....

Flasher shape:- ordinary flashers do not look like a fish in design....and as soon as a salmon gets within eyesight range , it can clearly see the flasher is not a fish. But this doesn't stop them, because by that time they are more interested in the lure.......some colors/tape on a flasher will actually spook fish at certain times of the year.
A flasher does not really resemble a slashing fish by sight......but normally it is not a design that poses a threat to a curious fish.....so although they don't really know what it is, they are not afraid of it for the most part.

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Nice looking work. That surely resembles a small bait ball.

Here is a link to Allure Tackle. Mark, the owner has thought this same thing through. http://looksthatkill.myshopify.com/collections/flashers

He has some flashers that have the image of bait fish and schooling squid. Nice stuff, great images. And, if you'd rather have a sexy babe getting the fish's attention, he's got them, too.

Also, you are on spot with your predictions of upcoming models of flashers. A couple of those concepts are being field tested right now around Van Island, the great lake region and central west coast.