"Natural" colored worms

[Luke at Gouldsboro]

I've heard a lot of pros use the "natural" color worms. Anyone have any luck with them, or should I stick with my usual colors?

[ww2farmer]

what are your "usual" colors? In clear water, it's hard to beat a shades of green or brown, in low light condtions, your blacks/blues/purples all work fine. I wouldn't get too hung up on color, pick one that you have faith in and fish it.

[SWMIBASSER]

Throw it in the water. Does that look like something you would see in that body of water?

That's the method I use.

I think most colors outside of red work fine some days. Other days they are picky.

[Luke at Gouldsboro]

Primarily I use black, dark green, and brown plastics on the Lake I fish. I get good results with those colors.

[SWMIBASSER]

Primarily I use black, dark green, and brown plastics on the Lake I fish. I get good results with those colors.

Sounds like you are doing fine color wise. IMO.

[roadwarrior]

Pick colors you like. At times a certain color

may be important, but it usually doesn't matter.

I like "dark".

8-)

[CWB]

I fish mostly clear natural lakes and the colors I prefer are green pumpkin, watermelon/red flake and pumpkinseed.

Sometimes dressing up with a different color of JJ's Magic will get more bites. In clear water, there are times color can make all the difference. I've had days where nothing but pink would get bit. Just experiment and stay with what you have confidence with.

Confidence probably matters more than color most of the time.

[skeeteroneal]

Clear-wat or green pumpkin

stained-black/blue, junebug, chart

[hookset]

My range is  green pumpkin to watermelon. I like to spice it up a little sometimes I like to go with watermelon w/red flake. This is just what produces for me, beleive me I have boat loads of soft plastics in all different colors. Through trial and ERROR I have found these to be the most productive for me.

[SDoolittle]

I'm glad you brought this up. Like most everyone else here, I usually stick with natural colored soft plastics like watermelon and green pumpkin. I have no problem throwing a chartreuse spinnerbait or a fire tiger crankbait, but I never use these colors with soft plastics. When do you put on an orange, yellow or pink worm? I know someone is using them because you can buy them anywhere.

[Pez]

I fish mostly clear natural lakes and the colors I prefer are green pumpkin, watermelon/red flake and pumpkinseed.

Sometimes dressing up with a different color of JJ's Magic will get more bites. In clear water, there are times color can make all the difference. I've had days where nothing but pink would get bit. Just experiment and stay with what you have confidence with.

Confidence probably matters more than color most of the time.

   X2, confidence is key! 

[Hammer 4]

Haha, I've tossed my bubblegum senco's and never caught a fish on them. Thedy hit all of my other colors though..

[midnighthrasher]

watermelon, green pumpkin, black blue flake. sometimes white.

[Derek84]

In clear lakes I like a blue/small black flake 7" straight worm with about 1/4" of the tail dyed green. Works wonders.

[Fishing Rhino]

Colors are funny (interesting) things.

Years ago, like forty or fifty, the pond I fish was a smallmouth pond.  Back then the only plastic worms were Creme or Burke's (maybe Berk's) worms.  There were other makes but they were like the sidewalls of tires.

The colors were black and brown.  Black was the color we had the most luck with.

Today, that pond is a largemouth pond. 

When I resumed fishing a couple of years ago, I bought some black worms based on ancient history.

Can't catch a cold with the color black today.  Black jigs work fine, but plastics.................

I have no doubt that it's an effective color.  Perhaps a few non-productive casts turned me off. 

It's tough to fish with something in which you lack confidence. 

In 2008, I caught a lot of fish on Mepps, spinnerbaits, Storm wildeye swim baits, chatterfrogs.

Last year I tried them from time to time.  Ended up hardly using those baits at all.

That's fishing for you.

[Brian B]

I always start my year off with a huge bag of black power worms, usually the 100 pack.  Then I buy packs of various colors to experiment with.  I usually alwaysend up back to black before the end of the day.

[VABassin'14]

Primarily I use black, dark green, and brown plastics on the Lake I fish. I get good results with those colors.

If it isn't broke, don't fix it.

[A-Rob]

I have had green and browns work for me dude give them a try

[Paul Roberts]

I'm glad you brought this up. Like most everyone else here, I usually stick with natural colored soft plastics like watermelon and green pumpkin. I have no problem throwing a chartreuse spinnerbait or a fire tiger crankbait, but I never use these colors with soft plastics. When do you put on an orange, yellow or pink worm? I know someone is using them because you can buy them anywhere.

I like natural colors too. BUT...other colors can catch fish too. I took to using bright orange stickworms for sight fishing and my bass took them just fine.

I do tend to let conditions dictate, but if I always do the same thing, I'm not proving anything. Just bc it "makes sense" to us doesn't mean it's accurate. Fluorescent pink and chartreuse worms have quite a following.

The one thing I discovered years ago, and have stuck with, is using translucent plastics under very high visibility conditions. Opaque worms (my fav was black) simply failed under such conditions, where translucent's caught fish.

I think two things enter in most: visibility conditions, and possibly fish experience with certain lures. Bass have color vision, and it evolved to enhance visibility.

When you said "natural-colored" worms I thought you meant, like a real worm, like the old Burke Erthworm. They work really well btw. Creme makes it in the scoundrel -still a great straight tail.

[Siebert Outdoors]

clear water= Green pumpkin variants.

Stained=Green pumpkin variants.

Muddy=Green pumpkin variants.

8-)

[HeavyTackle]

Case plastics has a color called natural and it is a brownish color with no flakes. Comes in senkos and a few other baits.

I don't throw case plastics anymore but really did not find any difference in the natural color than watermelon, pumpkin or even junebug for that matter.

Color is overrated etc. etc.

[basscrusher]

After owning & trying every color plastic bait on earth over the past decade, I've decided that you can get away with 3 colors for each type of plastic bait. The colors will vary per type of lure. E.g. my 3 colors for ribbontail worms are not the same as my fluke colors. For most baits, I have a clear water color, a stained water color, and a muddy water color. Here's my breakdown, going from clear to stained to muddy conditions:

Ribbontail worms: watermelon red, junebug, black w/ either blue or red fleck (whatever is avail.)

Finesee/shaky worms: watermelon red, junebug, black w/ chart. tail

frogs: white or black. Nothing else needed.

Senkos: watermelon, junebug, black & blue (although, there are some times when pink works wonders...and for me its been totally random. Can't replicate the pattern under same scenarios)

Flukes: pearl and silver/black back (don't use in muddy water)

Lizards: watermelon red, junebug, black/chart. tail

grubs: the only plastic I really need more than 3 colors: in winter white, chart., and black. But for smallies throw in pumpkin and watermelon

Tubes: browns and greens for smallies, black neon for LM

Beavers: same as tubes

craws: green pumkin, black & blue

Hope I didn't put anyone to sleep.