Method For Color Selection?

[chelboed]

Seems like green pumpkin is pretty popular. I use it most of the time on stick worms.

For myself...clear water gets natural colors like a gizzard shad live target lipless. Stained gets more generics like blue chrome red eye shad. Murky water gets less reflective stronger colors like white, fire tiger, etc.

With worms, I go natural to green pumpkin...black in murky water.

Tube jigs with jig spinners / beetle spins...Brown with brown flake, black with yellow stripes, orange and brown...Murky water will get white / neon green / yellow

Mepps: sunny-silver / overcast-gold / murky-fire tiger / dark it late evening-black

If I'm doing it wrong, lemme know. The bite is slow right now...so I'm using smaller baits.

[SoFlaBassAddict]

I've got three basic colors of lures in the boat.

White

Green

Black

If I think the fish are chasing shad/shiners, I'll throw something in the white family. Otherwise it's the darker the water gets the darker I go.

I don't think I've used anything but a black and blue colored plastic for the last few trips.

KISS theory:

Keep It Simple Stupid

[BrownBear]

lol, ok when I first read "color c lector" I thought it was a joke thing, after I saw it twice in this same thread I googled it. It's a real thing that cost me money to tell me what color to fish with...lol, no thanks. I will stick with the experienced folks advice on the forums. Might as well mount a color wheel and spin it. ha!

[SPEEDBEAD.]

Just pick green pumpkin.

[WRB]

If you research the late Dr Loren Hill who invented the Color-C-Lector you will have a better understanding of what this device is. You may not agree with using a device that helps you, it was based on research by a very good bass angler and biologist. The Color-C-Lector was a hot item in 1984 when it came out and changed how we selected soft plastic worm colors.

Tom

[buzzed bait]

about 75% of my plastics are green pumpkin.  maybe 15% is black and the rest is whatever was on sale.  i don't put too much stock into the color.  last week i caught 3 fish on 3 different colors of a baby d bomb in the same pond within about 25 minutes of each other.  leads me to believe that A. when they're feeding, it doesn't matter B.  when you have the right presentation, lure, conditions, color is irrelevant

[scaleface]

I still have some Rebel Deep Wee Rs new in box that were made to go along with the Color C Lector. One is red and one is green and another lure by Cordell . Dont remember what that one is .

[J Francho]

I follow Willy Nilly's lead.

[bigbill]

If you research the late Dr Loren Hill who invented the Color-C-Lector you will have a better understanding of what this device is. You may not agree with using a device that helps you, it was based on research by a very good bass angler and biologist. The Color-C-Lector was a hot item in 1984 when it came out and changed how we selected soft plastic worm colors.

Tom

Tom your correct but one must read some of Dr Loren Hill's ten years of research in the bass with colors. Like I said KVD Has one in his boat for tough days. We can all miss something on a tough day.

The bass can't see all the colors all the time. There limited sometimes on what colors they can see. The light conditions, the water condition, the plant life, the change in the light can all influence on what colors the bass can see. I've had days were it's limited to one color they could see. Other days any color worked. But there were more days were the bass were limited color wise.

None of us know everything we always learn something new wether it's here or when we're fishing. Keep an open mind and learn.

[bigbill]

In the early morning from dark to twilite or day lite to dusk. The basses eyes adjust faster to the change in the light conditions than the sunfishes eyes do. This is why there is a feeding frenzy at these two times.

During the late afternoon I'm throwing a joesfly 1/4oz silver blade, black fly called a blacknat. I was on the bass bite fish after fish.As the daylite became dusk the bite shut down. I put on a joesfly firetiger apache 1/4oz. I landed a few more bass before darkness set in. This experience taught me the bass shut down because they couldn't see the silver/black lure. But the firetiger color they could see.

When I was a kid in the early 60's in the low light I put a white 4" pork trailer on a hook and casted it in the shallows. I seen it being pulled every which way. Everything was about dark but that white pork trailer I could see perfectly.

Sometimes I question what the rules are? Are there rules?

I don't think there are any color boundaries when it comes to bass fishing.

Don't limit your colors when it comes to bass fishing.

[Bankbeater]

Usually natural colors in clear water with clear skies, but not always. Some of the best fish I have caught have been in clear water with clear skies using a black/blue jig.

[rosshilk]

You only need a few colors green pumpkin, Watermelon, Junebug, and Blacks. Any of these can be enhanced with some color like watermelon red candy or green pumpkin with some flake. I base the rest on water clarity if the water is muddy with very little visibility I will stick to dark bulky baits that I can create vibration with. If the waters are clear I use my green pumpkin or watermelon and downsize some on the baits.

[bigbill]

The reddish senkos and the Amber red flake stick 0's are my go too's.

The electric blue flake ACE is my backup. For senkos type plastics.

[Josh Smith]

Murky ---> Clear

Dark ---> Bright

 

Josh

[SouthernBassin]

Dark colors for muddy water and light colors for clear water