04-16-08, 06:44 PM | #1 |
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Most Productive: Color
When it comes to plastics, we all know how vast the array of colors, shades, hues, and tints of plastic baits can be. With all these colors, what do you think your best, or rather, most productive color would be?
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04-16-08, 06:52 PM | #2 |
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it all depends on water clarity and forage. For years we had murky water here and colors like black, or junebug or black and blue worked. Now it seems the more natural colors work. Seems like over the last 5 years,
watermelon punkin seed color has worked for me with senkos, tubes and craws. I still favor any color of purple worm or red shad for worms tho. tequilla sunrise, grape, etc. A really great color for spring IF clear water is punkin seed brown and a chartreuse tail, any brand. |
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watermelon/red, green pumpkin, and black are good most of the time, occasionally switching to grasshopper in really clear waters.
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I'm in the know as well I guess you could say.
Last year the bass really dug the Black/Blue Senkos, Pearl Senkos, Carolina Pumpkin/Chartresuse Dingers, and the Tomatoe ZOOM Trick Worms. I really want to try the many colors from Robowrm and especially Gulp! and Powerbait this year. -Buzz |
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I prefer purple plastics while fishin stained Patoka L.
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i prefer the natural colors, my favorite being gulp nightcrawler color...
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GREEN PUMPKIN!!!! Works anywhere with any bait
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I have really good luck with motor-oil(black), blue & bubble-gum...to each their own, but it's all relative to water color..IMO
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Junebug will work in almost any water color. Green Pumpkin is my 2nd choice.
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Amen. My favorite all around color
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Watermelon, watermelon red, and green pumpkin are tough to beat. Red shad isn't too shabby, either.
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Colors seem to change slightly from one manufacturer to the next. Watermelon/Red flake from Berkely, Mean Green from Zoom, and green pumpkin from any company.
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Guess my go-to color would have to be watermelon/red flake, but I am happy with most shades of green.
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For top water toads-watermelon red. For mostly anything else-junebug. Redshad a close second.
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I never had any luck with red shad. I actually haven't used it in years. What type of water clarity have you guys had success with it in?
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Browns and greens most of the time. If the water is crystal clear, I sometimes use hologram shad or prism shad patterns.
At the lakes I fish, the water is usually gin clear but using a solid black plastic first thing before any sunlight penetrates the water has helped in catching better quality fish. Must be a bigger profile thing... |
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The rivers I fish around here are usually stained. We do well with Red Shad Culprit worms. It's always been a good color for our waters.
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if i had to choose one color to use for the rest of my fishing days it would be black with no flake. but since i don't have to choose just one color, i like green pumpkin, pumpkinseed, red shad, junebug, and watermelon.
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So, Buzz, are you going to enlighten us?
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I have to weigh in on this one as well. My all around favorite color is the Zoom Watermelon Candy, but no matter where I've have fished, when it came time to start looking for a "go to" color, Green Pumpkin was always the first to put a fish in the boat. That doesn't mean Green Pumpkin is my favorite color it just happens to be the most dependable over a wide range of water colors and clarities. My second favorite is Watermelon/Purple Flake and then Watermelon Red Flake. My brand favorite happens to be Zoom because the colors are most consistant from batch to batch.
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Pumpkin seed is spectacular. But I want to give West End a try by gambler for my #1 spot.
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I'm in the know as well I guess you could say. Last year the bass really dug the Black/Blue Senkos, Pearl Senkos, Carolina Pumpkin/Chartresuse Dingers, and the Tomatoe ZOOM Trick Worms. I really want to try the many colors from Robowrm and especially Gulp! and Powerbait this year. -Buzz Post number three!?!? -Buzz |
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I like pumpkinseed (occasionally with a chartreuse tail), red shad, watermelon, and sometimes just good ole black....
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I think often these things are regional and vary, based on the water conditions that are prevalent in a specific area. It's kind of funny, but I'm a minority here. I've never done very well with the watermelon/pumpkin variety of colors. What seems to work in our waters very well is the black or black/blue colors. Now as far jig trailors are concerned, I try to complimeent the color of the jig. I have the greens and browns, but black and blue in our area seems to outfish those colors by far. As for fluke type baits, I do well with the pearls/white/shad colors. When I pick out a frog bait, I tend to try to stick to the natural colors. Something close to green or brown on top with a white belly. Pick up any frog here in the eastern U.S. and I'll bet it has a white belly. Seems to me, matching the hatch is a good way to go here. After all, when a bass zeros in on a real frog, most likely all he is going to see is the belly portion of the frog. With the Tiki stick worms, I do very well with the black/red blend.
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