what's with the sexy shad dilemma?

[K_Mac]

Wickyman we agree that knowing your strengths is a major key to success. 8-) I catch a lot of fish on wacky rigged Senkos and Stickos, either weightless or on a weighted hook or jig. I can work it a variety of ways. Same with a jig; pitch it, hop it, swim it, whatever I know it works. Add a shakyhead and trickworm to the mix and I'm ready to go. I do have 3 or 4 go-to colors-not a sexy one in the bunch. :

Edit: I usually have three or four other things ready to go... :-?

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

It is an incredible color aound here in the kind of waters I fish. The sexy red eye shads outproduce all of our other lipless cranks. I have confidence in it. on the other hand though white and shad variation patterns work great too.

[hammer84]

I have had very good success with the sexy shad color but I have been using a BLACK=>GREY=>WHITE fade crank for years and had success.  It has been killer in the spring when water is still pretty cold.

Following is just my opinion and observation

I think white is a lost color.  My local large fishing retailer told me last summer that he could give whie baits away.  Plastics or cranks.

Second, KVD has people cranking again ( at least in deeper water ).  I have always been a big fan of cranks but I would says that 80% of the boats at local tourneys go straight to pitching and flipping.

[s13john]

its a catchy name(no pun intended) and a simple color that looks fishy. look at reaction innovations and all their names ... sweet beaver... i mean .....   8-) 8-)

[The Rooster]

Ahh.....I went ahead and bought one today anyway, and I was the original sexy shad skeptic in this thread I think.  I got a knockoff color, it's the foxy shad in the Excalibur lipless cranks line.

[ab8aac]

Have ya'll ever fished for yellow bass?  Here in texas in the spring and fall they school up and thrash the small shad, and the bass thrash them, the sexy shad resembles a yellow bass.  If you catch the water boiling with the yellows throw a sexy shad and crank it down real quick and just see how many large mouths in the 4-6lb range you get swiming under the yellows picking up the dieing shad and also feeding on the yellows, I got one 5lber last month doing this that had 2 small yellow bass in his stomach whcih he threw up in my live well.  Several times I have caught large mouths this way and you could see the tail of a yellow in their throat.

It might not be the reason but it sure seems like it to me.

SALUTE

Frank Williams

[ttufishinman]

The first collegiate tournament i fished in i won it throwing a sexy shad strike king suspending jerk bait. i think it is a great looking color but maybe a little over marketed. every bait company has their own rendition of this color scheme. Ill be honest i have a lot of cranks and traps in this color  :

[grimlin]

White/chart. color is a very popular color here.Seeing how KVD is from MI. doesn't surprise me one bit how he incorporated that color into his arsenal and called it "Sexy Shad" color.

Every single spinnerbait i buy is usually white/chart.