Crazy Colors

[JThoms38]

Colors of plastics like bubblegum, and neon yellow...do they catch fish and in what conditions are they to be fished?

[Bluebasser86]

Not only will they work with plastics, crazy colors will work with moving baits too.

A closeup of the bait in that studly basses mouth, which came from a very pressured local lake.

 

When the normal colors aren't working is a good time to try them. I've had really good luck with pink in clear water. Neon orange works well around fish that are eating bluegills and sunfish. A bright orange and yellow spinnerbait is a killer around cover in the spring for me.

[JThoms38]

Not only will they work with plastics, crazy colors will work with moving baits too.

A closeup of the bait in that studly basses mouth, which came from a very pressured local lake.

 

When the normal colors aren't working is a good time to try them. I've had really good luck with pink in clear water. Neon orange works well around fish that are eating bluegills and sunfish. A bright orange and yellow spinnerbait is a killer around cover in the spring for me.

That's a cool looking little bait!

[Bluebasser86]

That's a cool looking little bait!

Thanks, I made that one after having some success on a pink and white one I made kind of as a joke. Since then that pink and chartreuse has become a very productive bladed jig color for me. 

[Scott F]

I use the crazy bright colors when I want to see the bait while I'm fishing it. If it disappears, it means a fish ate it.

[F14A-B]

Ditto on those colors, I often use walleye colors for LMB and they really can be quite productive.

[Sam]

JThoms38, on 31 Aug 2014 - 01:58, said:

Colors of plastics like bubblegum, and neon yellow...do they catch fish and in what conditions are they to be fished?

 

Yes. Plus pink and neon green.

 

Any conditions. Just throw them and find out if the bass want them.

[Catch and Grease]

I like yellow baits if that counts as a crazy color lol

[5fishlimit]

Smallmouth bass on Lake Erie devour pink/bubblegum/cotton candy colors.

If they're good enough for 4# and larger smallies they are good enough for me.

[JThoms38]

Smallmouth bass on Lake Erie devour pink/bubblegum/cotton candy colors.

If they're good enough for 4# and larger smallies they are good enough for me.

Maybe they see it as a fresh water shrimp or a small shad with pink of some sort? That's interesting.. Lake Erie being relatively clear in most locations right?

[5fishlimit]

Maybe they see it as a fresh water shrimp or a small shad with pink of some sort? That's interesting.. Lake Erie being relatively clear in most locations right?

I fish out of the central basin between the vermilion river to geneva in 20 to 30FOW. It's stained, but even on the western basin by Kellys Island where the water is shallower and a bit more clear it works well. I believe smallies just like the color.

[Comfortably Numb]

Just shows that color and matching the hatch is not that important. What counts is that the fish can see it.

[BigBassLoveSenkos]

There was a day this past spring in which I went thru 3 bags of pink 5" senkos before 11am.  Bright colors seem to work best for me on sunny days in clear water.

[WRB]

Smallmouth tend to prefer pink and combinations of red/yellow/brown. I avoided red/ yellow for a long time because of the warning; red touches yellow look out fellow warning of poisonous reptiles! Pink like morning dawn color worms are very popular for largemouths also.

Tom

[Raul]

Many years ago I purchased what may have been the ugliest painted lure of my life, it was a Bomber Long. A minnow maybe size 11, base color was white, head and back was black complemented by blue and fucsia pink dots distributed randomly on the body, just to finish the ugly paint it was matte finish. Man that thing was a goddam fish magnet at San Lorenzo, I forgot how many fish I caught with that lure ( including some big fish ), but as usual, nothing good lasts forever, I ended up loosing it, never seen that paint pattern ever again. I called it " El Payasito " ( the clown ).