Colors!

[Kyler]

I want to know your favorite color's when it comes to fishing. I want your favorite crankbait, spinnerbait, soft plastic, topwater, and  everything else you can think of! 

[Catch and Grease]

Chartreuse is a great all around color for hard plastics, for soft plastics I like yellow colors and green pumpkin and topwaters I like black or white ( occasionally orange ) unless I'm throwing a frog where I like more natural colors like brown and green.

[PersicoTrotaVA]

It usually depends on the clarity of the water, time of day, cloudy vs sunny, etc.  Around here its mostly slightly stained to muddy so my color choices are usually dark or super bright.  For crankbaits I usually throw black back/chartreuse, green gizzard shad, and Tennessee shad.  For spinnerbaits I run the color gambit. White to Black and everything in between.  Mostly whites with reds or chartreuse, blacks with blues or reds, purples and i like to paint my black and blue ones with chartreuse tips on the skirt.  For plastics I usually throw white pearl dipped in red lure paint leaving the tail white, junebug, red shad, green pumpkinseed, watermelon red flake, pretty much anything with black, red or dark purple.  I throw a lot of plastic jerkbaits/swimbaits with pearl bellies and the backs are usually green pumpkin, watermelon or no pearl belly and red shad colored all over.  I don't really fish top water much, buzz baits annoy the *insert expletive here* out of me.  I did buy a sexy frog in green pumpkin/pearl but I still haven't thrown it yet.  I used to fish topwater a lot when i was growing up.  Pop-Rs and jitterbugs.  I liked the idea of being able to see the fish hit the lure instead of feeling the fish hit the lure.  I caught 1 fish on a jitterbug and none on a pop-r.  I haven't built up enough confidence yet to use topwater lures again.    

[Mccallister25]

Falcon lake craw, bama craw, summer craw. Oh, and foxy shad.

[F14A-B]

Match the Hatch!

[papajoe222]

I don't have favorites, I have multiple colors of each. Between water color and clearity, light conditions and the fish's preference on any particular day, I don't want to limit my success by throwing a favorite color that, likely, wouldn't be productive.  If you're looking to limit the colors of the baits you use, or willing to do so,  go with the natural colors of the forage you're imitating.  Forage doesn't change it's color much and although it may not be as successful as a different color, on any given day it should produce.

[Fish Murderer 71]

Right now I'm throwing Purples, watermelon reds, and pearls in the day time for soft plastics.  Chromes and Ghosts in jerks, and lipless.  I haven't started throwing the deep divers yet cause the catfish are spawning still (one of my superstitions and all I catch with them this time of year are Crappie).  I'll bang the docks with greens and brown jigs with watermelon/pearl rage craw.  Shiny Topwaters.  On cloudy days I throw almost everything in Threadfin shad colors or chartreuse.  and at night, real simple-ALL BLACK! .  

[Choporoz]

Baitmonkey would be pretty lousy if I only had one color of any one type of lure.   It'd be nice not to have 50 pounds worth bait in every color of the rainbow.  I will say, however, that for plastics I almost always try new styles in a variation of green - something in the watermelon to green pumpkin spectrum.  Reds, blues, pinks, whites, etc just don't have as wide a window to the bite....though they do have their place at times.    If it's a hard bait that goes below the surface, I'll always gravitate towards shad-like and/or flash of orange on the belly.

[KYBassin']

I don't always fish worms but when I do they're blue fleck

[RB 77]

I primarily use these five colors for soft plastics 1. black 2. watermelon 3. green pumpkin 4. junebug and 5. pumpkin in no particular order of preference. I let conditions dictate which colors to use. I divide the color selection in to two different groups; opaque (black, green pumpkin) and trasnlucent (watermelon, pumpkin). Junebug falls somewhere in the middle. In low light conditions or fishing stained water i use the opaque colors. In bright light and clear water I use the translucent colors. These are guidelines and not hard fast rules. I also use some other color combos as well, but these are the ones I use the most.

 

For hardbaits the more natural the better in most instances. For cranks and jerks I prefer a shad pattern most of the time. The primary bait fish forage in our local reservoirs is threadfin shad. The closer the resemblance the better. I also prefer translucent colors as well sucha as a ghost minnow pattern.

 

For jigs I use three primary colors. Black, green, and brown. Brown will often be paired with purple for a PB&J look. I usually always try to match the trailer to the head and skirt color, although sometimes I will mix and match trailer to the the head. Soft plastics craws get the bulk of the work for my trailers.

 

Spinnerbaits are generally white or white with a mixed skirt and trailer. Poppers and walking baits are usually naturral forage patterns (shad, baby bass, etc). Frogs are black, white, brown, or green. Swimbaits are rainbow trout or shad pattern. This isnt an all inclusive list, but does cover most of the basics.

[Deleted account]

I let fish pick my favorites. Usually they say watermelonish plastic, shaddish, or shinnerish spinnerbait and cranks, black or white top water.

[bigbill]

Crankbaits it's all the colors catch fish. Let the water conditions guide you.

Spinnerbaits it's gold Colorado, blue glimmer for clear to slightly stained water conditions.

For stained to muddy water conditions it's gold Colorado, hot chartreuse.

 

On a tough day when nothing is happening throw chartreuse.(overcast/dark)

 

I'm really confident with my spinner bait setups. My cranks I throw a variety of different colors till I get action. The bass will let you know what the correct color is for that moment. When the bite starts and slows down change colors again. If still no action change to larger size baits same style and colors.

[aavery2]

Green