Best Soft Plastic Colors for In-between Water

[canbassguy]

I know black, black/blue  and junebug are good colors for dirty water and green pumpkin or watermelon for clear. The lake I fish is not muddy ot tea stained by any means but isn't clear either. Is clearish but still only maybe 2 or 3 feet visibility due to algae and sediment in water. What would be the best colors I should try? More towards the green pumpkin or the blacks? 

[Montanaro]

Yes

[MichaelJ7]

I have so much confidence in green pumpkin I never rule it out. June bug is another color you really can throw anywhere. Let the fish tell you what to throw on a given day. 

[papajoe222]

Unless the water is super murky, I like to match my plastic's color to the bottom color, or to the cover if I'm fishing off bottom, but Don't ever rule out white or black. You can add color to a white bait if you like, even just a splash. Be creative and add eyes, gills, even a lateral line or perch lines.  As for Black, don't be afraid to use it anytime under any water color conditions.

[geo g]

Yes, your original colors.  Black and blue, June bug.

[canbassguy]

Ok thanks.....so basically a combo of the baits for clear or dirty water depending on what the bass want that day...

[mbtharp1]

Use whatever you have the most confidence in. My home lake has 1.5ft visibility at its absolute clearest, and is usually really muddy. Green pumpkin chatterbaits and craws still outfish black/blue or black/red 3 to 1. It doesn't always make sense lol. In your situation I would definitely stick with greens and browns.

[Catt]

So black-n-blue will not work in clear water & green pumpkin will not work in off colored water!

 

Quite looking at color charts & chunk it! ?

[CroakHunter]

In off colored water i like the same colors I use for clear and muddy water. Just because water clarity changed doesn't mean the forage changes. 

[scaleface]

I use to fish black grape 90 percent of the time and my pal fished blueberry . It made no difference where we fished clear , muddy , in between . If they were biting one they were biting the other .

[Sam]

Green Pumpkin with Black Flake.

[mattkenzer]

53 minutes ago, Sam said:

Green Pumpkin with Black Flake.

Sam ..... you add Copper Flake to that Green Pumpkin with Black Flake and you have an absolute time tested winner in my book ....

[the reel ess]

You can't go wrong by buying all your plastics in black/blue, pumpkin and/or watermelon. If they're going to get a long look at it, naturals are my go-to's.

 

There are exceptions. Fish imitators should more closely match the hatch, but maybe with some variation to trigger bites like chartreuse.

 

Then there's the old standby purple worm. For years I never bought any other color for Lake Wateree. I was so convinced of it that it took me a couple years of fishing other places to buy different colors. I still have packs of them and they still work.

 

And then there's the Trick Worm and stick worms that seem to do well with brighter colors. These seem to trigger reactions. So I guess the deciding factor is if you'e trying to imitate a craw or fish. 

[Troy85]

Watermelon Seed is my most used color, with Senkos and worms.  If I'm throwing a crawfish style plastic its almost always black and blue. I use white for flukes and soft swim baits.  I tend to choose color based on what bait I'm trying to imitate more often than water clarity.

[ww2farmer]

This is how I do it...........

 

Clear water: Sunny days, some kind of watermelon-ish color. On cloudy days, green pumpkin. I prefer both to have flakes of purple, blue, orange, or a combo of all three.

 

Stained water (usually green from algae blooms around here): Sunny days, green pumpkin w/ parts dipped in chart.  or orange dye. Cloudy days, black and blue for craws/creatures/jigs/trailers, june bug for worms, often with the tails dipped in chart. dye.

 

Really dirty water: Black and blue all the time, and often with a noise maker like a rattle added.

 

Works for me.

[Montanaro]

Man, GP is where its at.  I really dont use anything else unless as jig trailer.

 

Gambler actually has a green pumpkin black swirl that is best of both worlds.

[Columbia Craw]

Okeechobee Craw is an effective go between.  If you can see 2-3 feet the bass can see seven feet or more. "If you pitch it, they will come."

[N Florida Mike]

Sounds just like my home lake. Watermelon seed is king. Watermelon red a close second. This is when the sun is up for an hour or so and the same before sundown. Lower light -June bug  black grape and red shad  is great. Tequila/ grape are also good during the day.

[WRB]

When the first soft plastic Creme worms came out they were night crawler brown and caught bass everywhere. The second color for soft plastics and popular pork rind color was black and caught bass everywhere becoming more popular then brown. Black was the preferred color for decades until Tom Mann introduced Jelly worms in fruit named colors, blue berry being the most popular followed by grape. Jelly worms changed soft plastics worms and every other mfr followed with multiple colors over the next 40 years.

Black remains popular worm color for night fishing because it works. Greens were not popular soft plastics for decades until green weenie worms with flakes changed that, now green pumpkin is popular. 

What happened to blue berry? Blue as a primary color has been forgotten, black with blue has become more popular. 

The bass don't change, anglers who follow the heard or color of the day change. You would think bass would starve if you believe what is written about what bass can see in low light of off color water.

Tom

[DropShotHotShot]

when in doubt, match the color of bait to the color of the water and surrounding cover.  Nature tends to camouflage itself, so a lure that matches its surroundings will seem normal to bass 

[LCG]

My go to colors are black and blue, junebug, watermelon, red and black, and white. Works in a variety of water, but then again I don't have water that is 40ft and for clarity either.