What's Up With Chartreuse Lures?

[thinkingredneck]

Probably works a lot like pink does.

[timsford]

On 6/20/2012 at 11:18 AM, JamesD said:

Tag? ...I don't follow?

I've decided to buy a few when I get my canoe on the water to fish deeper areas of my little honey-hole. At least that way I can make good use of a 6-8' crank without snagging on some underwater branch/limb.

Any other input?

One of the hardest lessons to learn as a beginner is that if you aren't getting snagged or worried about getting snagged, you won't catch nearly as many fish. Most of the time fish hit crankbaits as a reaction when they make contact with cover or on the pause immediately after striking cover. I ALWAYS use cranks that run deeper than the water I'm fishing and I want them to contact the bottom and cover as much as possible on the retrieve. Most cranks will float away from the snag if you pause the retrieve, and balsa or wood baits are my favorites for this because they float quickly and rarely get snagged. Another trick is to use shorter shank trebled that hug the lure tighter on retrieve.

Chartreuse is a murky or muddy water color primarily for me, unless I'm fishing for smallmouth or the primary baitfish the bass are eating are sunfish. 

I choose color based on the forage I'm imitating. White or silver mostly for baitfish imitating lures like jerkbaits or spinnerbaits. Craw, bream, or shad colors for cranks and swimbaits. And plastics and jigs are always either shades of green or brown in clear water and black and blue in muddy water. I not saying any color won't work, but these are the colors and baits I use the most