The color orange

[bigbill]

I was in a local bait shop in town and always hit his marked down baits. A orange spook and a green n yellow spooks caught my eye. I figured for $1.99 each I'd buy both. One morning while fishing I would try the orange spook. Well five bass later I'm thinking I need more orange colored baits. Besides the rapalas there aren't many other orange colored baits. How come we don't see more orange colored baits?

 

 

Time to breakout the spray can soon I guess.  I have a air brush setup somewhere never used it yet.

 

i knew before this the crankbaits with the orange colored bottoms seem to be hotter. 

[heavyduty]

Pumpkin (or orange) craws are go-to for me in the summer!

 

[WRB]

Orange is often used as a highlite color and belly color to simulate both crawdads and male bluegill. Solid orange isn't as popular today as it was a decade ago. BillLewis traps have several red/orange colors, Bomber and Norman has/had a few in their crankbait.

We used orange peel orange double tail grubs back in the old days, hot color in Mexico.

Tom

[Darren.]

Love green pumpkin/orange in several soft plastics

including the TRD and Yamamoto Senko 

[Bluebasser86]

I make an all orange bladed jig. It's a killer on a couple lakes, but I'm not telling which ones  I do the same with a buzzbait also. 

 

This is my trailer for it.

[scaleface]

Orange has been a shallow/muddy water color for me . Black  jigs with orange pork frogs were my go to colors in chocolate water . Cant get them now .

[thinkingredneck]

Orange is a popular steelhead color, also.

[Gundog]

First time I was going to fish Cayuga Lake in upstate NY in the fall I stopped off at a local B&T shop and the owner recommended orange & brown colored baits. I had never thought about those colors before. Tried it and caught many big largemouths on spinnerbaits and crankbaits in those colors. 

[WRB]

12 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I make an all orange bladed jig. It's a killer on a couple lakes, but I'm not telling which ones  I do the same with a buzzbait also. 

 

This is my trailer for it.

That's the orange peel color I was referring to! When it works it works good.

Roboworm makes Orange Crusher color soft plastics, they work good.

Tom

[tcbass]

My dad caught his 12lbs. walleye on one of these. 

 

 

Things tiny, only 1-1/2" inches long.  

 

[Bankbeater]

I've had pretty good luck with orange crankbaits in muddy water. 

[scaleface]

Cousin and I were fishing jigs twenty foot deep at Table Rock .  He felt something on his line so just slowly reeled it in . A large brown crawfish with bright orange pincers had hold of it . We switched to brown jigs and brown Larew salt Craws with orange pincers and  quickly caught two keepers before calling it a day  . The only two we caught that day .

[Big Swimbait]

The Cabin Creek Spider Parts in Tennessee Orange has been a killer bait for me.

[bigbill]

Orange has been a good color locally here at places that no boats are allowed. I happen to stop every so often to try different colors just to see if they work at that time. I need to get some orange/Shad colors. I just purchased more rapalas in orange.

 

i noticed in the place where the orange color works the green Shad culprit worm works too. Since these spots aren't fished heavy they don't know our baits yet.

 

[Further North]

I have a fair number of orange baits, and a ton of flies with orange in them.

 

I've got a 10" orange/black fly that's caught a dozen or so musky; big and orange/black/orange-flash  double bladed spinners were a hot ticket in Canada this summer.

 

 

This one works too:

 

 

[Team9nine]

My "secret" custom painted RC square bill...

 

[Deleted account]

I like orange as an accent color (a lot). Solid orange, not so much. I'm pretty sure the fish don't care most times. Question for the OP and others, why assume its the color that made the difference? It could have been any of a number of factors, including none. Now I gotta go search who has orange 110 WPs on sale ( that's still the lure de jeuer, yes?)

[RB 77]

On 10/6/2017 at 11:21 PM, Bluebasser86 said:

I make an all orange bladed jig. It's a killer on a couple lakes, but I'm not telling which ones  I do the same with a buzzbait also. 

 

This is my trailer for it.

 

That Jig looks killer!

[Bluebasser86]

3 minutes ago, RB 77 said:

 

That Jig looks killer!

Thanks, I have a lot of practice making them. I like fishing them a lot more though.

[RB 77]

Just now, Bluebasser86 said:

Thanks, I have a lot of practice making them. I like fishing them a lot more though.

 

Orange can be a very underrated color at times in the right lake. That jig you made would be deadly for saltwater Bass out this way too. It is a go-to color for me in the salt.

[WRB]

1 hour ago, RB 77 said:

 

Orange can be a very underrated color at times in the right lake. That jig you made would be deadly for saltwater Bass out this way too. It is a go-to color for me in the salt.

That would be a killer orange combo for Calico bass.

Tom

[RB 77]

19 hours ago, WRB said:

That would be a killer orange combo for Calico bass.

Tom

 

Exactly!

[fishballer06]

On 10/6/2017 at 6:51 PM, bigbill said:

How come we don't see more orange colored baits?

Because manufacturers care more about catching fishermen, not fish...

[primetime]

I live in an area where all the ponds are full of Golden shiners. I was fishing with my ultralight and i ended up catching a really big wild Shiner on a small grub, and I was surprised at how much Red/Orange was on the shiner.

 

The body was a gold/Silver/Green flashy color, some black on the top, but all the fins were a Orange/Red color which surprised me as I never really associated red or orange with shiners. All the fins were Orange especially on the belly, The color was actually identical to that Chestnut Red skirt color they sell, but long story short, I tied up a jig in a shiner patterns with some red and orange mixed in and the bass hammered it.

 

I have an all Orange Mirro lure Top Dog walking bait that I sometimes throw when the water is stained and it has a loud one knocking sound, when it works, it seems to work as good or better than the chart colored topwater walking baits that are popular in Florida Summer's.

 

The orange/Red lipless cranks work for me all year long not just in the early spring. Sometimes bright baits must look different or are just easy for them to see, they are worth trying when everyone else is using the standard colors. Every lake has forrage with orange on them.

[bigbill]

I'm a color freak as all you know. I like to try different baits and colors. I find the natural colors do work like redear, bluegill, perch, baby bass, bass, silver Shad, gold minnow,  etc. but I find the colors, chartreuse, hot chartreuse, violet, blueglimmer , blue, white, work but the dark greencraw, redcraw, brown craw, firecraw, firetiger work too. When I see a new to me bait work I purchase every color just to test them out. We just don't know what color will work at certain times and water conditions. We have our confidence colors but other colors may work too. It's no different in plastics too. Some of these new colors are interesting. There putting different shiney shades together in a pattern but it's not a even pattern. How many different colors of the same bait do you carry?