When and where to use white?

[eric21]

I always hear people talking about using dark colored worms like black, pumkinseed, ect and i've always done the same.

The other day when I was getting some lures I noticed white senko's and wondered where and when you would use these. Sorry if this is a extremely noob question.

thanks

[Bass_Fanatic]

White is good for two things. 

1. Sight Fishing: use white while sight fishing so that you can see your bait.  When your bait disappears, you know the fish has it.

2. Shad Imitation: White can also imitate shad.  I like to get colored pens and add a little accent to it to make it look more shad-like.  Ex: an eye, gills, dot behind the gills, fins, stripes...ect.

[bilgerat]

White can be used just about anywhere, anytime for any predatory fish. The bellies of many species of baitfish, frogs, etc. are often white-ish in color.

On a recent episode of Man vs Fish, the host was catching some type of mackerel (to be used as bait for larger fish) using only strips of a white t shirt jigged on a hook. That tells you a lot right there.

[eric21]

Thanks guys, i'm definitely gonna pick up a bag of them and see what happens.

[Shad_Master]

A couple of years ago I was fishing in a tournament - my partner was throwing a white spinner bait becuse it was in the late fall and he felt that the fish would be feeding up for winter.  He made a cast and had a "professional overrun" - after picking it out he started to reel in a caught the first fish of the day.  The lightbulb went off in my head and I switched to a white jig and caught fish all day.

White is a very overlooked color for a lot of uses.  Give 'em a try.

[bigtimfish]

I rarely use it, but when I do it's good for me in gin clear water in the spring time. A white trick worm is a secret weapon.

[Shane J]

I don't know, but a white swim jig always seems to work, no matter if it's clear, cloudy, light, dark, etc.

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

Something about it that I really love to use it on cloudy overcast days with a light rain or fog and thats when it seems to work best for me.I do exceedingly well on white flukes,frogs, trickworms,tubes in these conditions. I know I know you have to use black in low light LOL

[wis bang]

As a kid we fished white belly frog jitterbugs in Canada...they used to make one w/ a little red right behind the metal plate and the really looked like the local frogs. Pappy, dad & me all fishing the same white belly frog all day. Most days we caught fish, some days more than others but they worked.

[Steven Ladner]

A weightless white trickworm is deadly here 

[TrippyJai]

I don't use white for any soft plastics, but my favourite crankbait colour is white... I feel like it's the best colour overall and it works for all situations.

[kms399]

I use white spinnerbaits 90% of the time

[Hammer 4]

White spinnerbaits, white jigs, and white buzzbaits..

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

White spinnerbait,buzzbaits,and cranks have been proven the world over. I'm just saying though for plastics it seems like a tough bite sometimes but when discover a day that they want it you better be throwing it. 8-)

[iceintheveins]

White is one of my top colors for senkos, tubes, flukes, and curly tails. It imitates lots of different bait fish, many of which tend to be lighter colored when small.

[bigbill]

After being a logger and selling firewood for around 35+ years I notice sometimes the white grubs inside the tree trunks can be as big or bigger than my fingers in diameter.  This is why the white grubs work so well.  I also purchased some larger white grubs that are for salt water that i want to try on the bigger hogs someday.  There silly big but just may workout.

What about using the white crankbaits?  Time of day?

When i was a kid we would put a pork trailer on a plain hook with a bobber.  I would throw it into the wet swampy areas around the trees/tree trunks were you couldn't use any other baits at thye time it was LBSB  (life before spinnerbaits).  I had many strikes and it was frun to watch the white strip being swam around by the fish in the low light.

Fishing LBSB  man i got old so fast.... ;D  It was so long ago i was fishing with the cave man.