Hot pink lures

[bryand82487]

So I was watching a fishing video today on youtube where this guy was killing smallmouth on a hot pink rapala x rap 8. It got me wondering in what conditions would you throw this color in? What does it actually mimic?

[Nine Miler]

X-Raps are great in the spring.  I get a lot of hits on that same lure.  As it gets a litter warmer, slow down a bit and try these.

http://www.***.com/Yamamoto_Senko/descpage-YAS.html#multiview

[bryand82487]

So you wouldn't suggest X Raps as a fall bait?

[5bass]

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[Nine Miler]

So you wouldn't suggest X Raps as a fall bait?

Yes, fall too.  As it cools down, the X-Raps, Pointers and lipless baits come back out, and the jigs, tubes, worms, drop shot baits, etc. get packed up. I am not saying those don't work, I just think fishing moving baits is more fun for smallmouth.

[NorcalBassin]

They fall into the category of, "When nothing else is working try one of these."

[MALTESE FALCON]

"Smallmouth bass love pink" Al Lindner. What ever Al says is gospel. I've had great success with the XR08  Hot Pink X-Rap.

Falcon

[bryand82487]

"Smallmouth bass love pink" Al Lindner. What ever Al says is gospel. I've had great success with the XR08 Hot Pink X-Rap.

Falcon

Yea it was Al's video that I watched on youtube that got me wondering.

[Owasco]

My Brother-in-law (AKA: Fishing buddy #2) was using a hot pink POP-R over the weekend and was just killing Large-mouths in both a a small local pond and then again on Sandy Pond on the east coast of Lake Ontario.

He was hesitant to use it at first because it was his wife's and she bought it because it was a "pretty" color.  He eventually lost the lure because he refuses to use more than 8# test and casted it into a tree limb

Now he is adamantly trying to find another hot pink POP-R.  I tried to explain that color usually doesn't matter when it comes to top water but he insists.  I guess that is where his confidence is right now, so I guess for him hot pink POP-R's are the best.

[Senkoman12]

My Brother-in-law (AKA: Fishing buddy #2) was using a hot pink POP-R over the weekend and was just killing Large-mouths in both a a small local pond and then again on Sandy Pond on the east coast of Lake Ontario.

He was hesitant to use it at first because it was his wife's and she bought it because it was a "pretty" color. He eventually lost the lure because he refuses to use more than 8# test and casted it into a tree limb

Now he is adamantly trying to find another hot pink POP-R. I tried to explain that color usually doesn't matter when it comes to top water but he insists. I guess that is where his confidence is right now, so I guess for him hot pink POP-R's are the best.

ever ice fish there? you will slam the perch, there is just so many in there

[Owasco]

My Brother-in-law (AKA: Fishing buddy #2) was using a hot pink POP-R over the weekend and was just killing Large-mouths in both a a small local pond and then again on Sandy Pond on the east coast of Lake Ontario.

He was hesitant to use it at first because it was his wife's and she bought it because it was a "pretty" color. He eventually lost the lure because he refuses to use more than 8# test and casted it into a tree limb

Now he is adamantly trying to find another hot pink POP-R. I tried to explain that color usually doesn't matter when it comes to top water but he insists. I guess that is where his confidence is right now, so I guess for him hot pink POP-R's are the best.

ever ice fish there? you will slam the perch, there is just so many in there

Not yet.  But I plan on it this year.  My bro-in-law has a camper on the lake about 2 minutes away so I'll get to this year.  I've heard of people actually catching their limit (50/day) up there.  Where in the lake do you go to catch the perch?  Near the island or just anywhere?

[Fishes in trees]

Seems to me, once upon a time, there was "hot pink" craze.   Early to mid 90's - something like that.  Pink poppers, pink cranks, pink worms, pink spinnerbaits, pink everything.  One year in their catalog, BPS has 2 or 3 pages of just pink stuff that you could get.  Like most crazes, it came and went.

That being said, I still have a bag of pink & pink & orange stickos (BPS version of Senko) that I throw from time to time - primarily lightly stained to stained water.   I probably have a pack of pink sluggos somewhere, not in my boat, probably in my gear shed somewhere.  I can recall that bait working very well on a couple of early spring trips, years ago.

[J Francho]

Pink doesn't work.  Neither does orange.

[SPEEDBEAD.]

I caught three tonight throwing one of these.

[MMan16]

Throwing pink seems to be one of those things you do on heavy pressured waters. I got some pick zeros and that's when I bring them out. Its just something different that I think gets the fish going. 

[1234567]

I've been trying to get my hands on a couple of those 316 freestyle shads forever now!!  I'll buy one from anyone who doesn't use them, heard there not that great anyways!   Looking for lavendar and white shad in the slow sink.

[SPEEDBEAD.]

I've been trying to get my hands on a couple of those 316 freestyle shads forever now!! I'll buy one from anyone who doesn't use them, heard there not that great anyways! Looking for lavendar and white shad in the slow sink.

I've got lavender, sissy and black floaters now. I sold my FS herring floater and SS already.

Pretty sure I'm done for the time being.   

[rubba bubba]

I caught three tonight throwing one of these.

I'm pretty sure my daughter got one of those in her Happy Meal.

[J Francho]

I caught three tonight throwing one of these.

He didn't say what he caught...

[SPEEDBEAD.]

I caught three tonight throwing one of these.

I'm pretty sure my daughter got one of those in her Happy Meal.

Lucky kid...

[Senkoman12]

My Brother-in-law (AKA: Fishing buddy #2) was using a hot pink POP-R over the weekend and was just killing Large-mouths in both a a small local pond and then again on Sandy Pond on the east coast of Lake Ontario.

He was hesitant to use it at first because it was his wife's and she bought it because it was a "pretty" color. He eventually lost the lure because he refuses to use more than 8# test and casted it into a tree limb

Now he is adamantly trying to find another hot pink POP-R. I tried to explain that color usually doesn't matter when it comes to top water but he insists. I guess that is where his confidence is right now, so I guess for him hot pink POP-R's are the best.

ever ice fish there? you will slam the perch, there is just so many in there

Not yet. But I plan on it this year. My bro-in-law has a camper on the lake about 2 minutes away so I'll get to this year. I've heard of people actually catching their limit (50/day) up there. Where in the lake do you go to catch the perch? Near the island or just anywhere?

i park at a resturant called the wigwam and just fish wherever within walking distance of it

[kikstand454]

the only place i seem to have any luck with pink is muddy flowing rivers with a pink paddle tail. *shrug*

i do really well with pink zeros and trick worms in saltwater. speckled trout are stupid for them in dirty water.

[maineman]

Hot pink works well in Maine for smallmouths. Just don,t let your fishing partner see you use it till you have a fish on or the jokes will never end! : ;D :

[Robert William Osler]

have you tried pink spinnerbait

pink is my first color

clown chartreuse red and white is in second

and white chartreuse is in 3rd