Black & Blue vs. Junebug ?

[ww2farmer]

For me it's as simple as this:

 

Is the bait offered in black and blue? If the answer is yes, then I buy black and blue. If the answer is no, but it's offered in June bug, then I buy June bug.

 

If the bait is offered in both colors, I choose black and blue.

 

With the exception of Yum dinger/Senko style stick baits (for those I prefer black and blue), I prefer june bug in worms, and black and blue for craws/creatures/jig trailers.

[bassguytom]

Junebug works great for river smallies here. I throw both for large mouth with an equal amount of success. Black and blue get the nod in stained water. 

[thinkingredneck]

Junebug and  Andy bug are my primary worm colors.  Black w blue flake jig trailer on all black or black blue skirted black jig.  I fish in a mudhole.  In reality, no reason except that is what my menorah suggested.

[Wurming67]

Whatever Walmart or bass pro shops have in stock in either color,I live in Florida mostly stained water flipping and pitching in heavy vegetation 90 percent of the time,I haven't noticed a difference between the two in the waters I fish,plus Im plopping a 1-2 oz  tungsten right on top of there heads,they don't even have time to look at the color ???

[Siebert Outdoors]

I throw b&b more but there are times around here that you must have a jig with purple.  Junebug is one of my go to's for this.  Pbj is another.

[deadadrift89]

Junebug - Soft Plastics

Black/Blue - Jig (only because ease of availability otherwise junebug would be it) 

 

[NittyGrittyBoy]

@Siebert Outdoors shhhhhh don't mention purple...

[IgotWood]

For me, junebug is a color I go to when they won’t bite the usuals ie; greens and blacks. Junebug and pb&j are colors that I basically use to bail myself out of a bad day. 

[FL BassGuy]

If the water is dark i fish a lot of june bug soft plastics, but for jigs black and blue seems to be the best.  I pair the black and blue jigs with june bug or black and blue craw/creature baits depending on whatever one gets bit the most.

[MIbassyaker]

I prefer junebug in plastics for the simple reason that green flake seems to outperform blue flake (or any other kind) where I fish. 

 

For jigs, I prefer browns and greens over both.

[Troy85]

I throw June Bug most of the time.  The only time I throw BB is when river fishing.

[tander]

I think it get down to whatever color you have confidence in, me, Junebug followed by Green Pumpkin. I really don't buy much of other colors.

[Carolina Rig]

I try to keep all different colors in the box in case something turns on that I didn't expect.  That said, I pretty much stick with green pumpkin and junebug.  I'll use black and blue when fishing a jig; but, for plastics, I almost always grab a junebug first.  My PB was caught on a Zoom Junebug Finesse Worm.

[Choporoz]

Whenever I fish with my brother in law I am reminded how much I envy his colorblindness. 

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19 hours ago, Choporoz said:

Whenever I fish with my brother in law I am reminded how much I envy his colorblindness. 

LOL. I had a favorite green hoodie that turns out was brown. Went to Zoo Lights the other night (before the shut down) and could only see blue and yellow on a tree until I was right up to it, turns out there were 5 color lights on it, rainbows only have 3 colors. So if you ever see a guy shinning a flashlight at the bags of plastics at BPS, say hi.

[scaleface]

41 minutes ago, reason said:

LOL. I had a favorite green hoodie that turns out was brown. Went to Zoo Lights the other night (before the shut down) and could only see blue and yellow on a tree until I was right up to it, turns out there were 5 color lights on it, rainbows only have 3 colors. So if you ever see a guy shinning a flashlight at the bags of plastics at BPS, say hi.

Have you heard about enchroma glasses ?

[the reel ess]

It's stained here so i throw black and blue as a rule. I won't usually throw another color unless I run out of black/blue. The old rule the old timers used to have was you can catch bass on any color worm as long as it's black. That still works for me. I do try other colors on the rare occasions that it doesn't rain for three weeks and the water clears to a visibility of more than 2 or 3'.

[Fishingintheweeds]

On 4/14/2018 at 1:15 AM, jtharris3 said:

I live in Michigan and Black/Blue produces better than junebug for me.

Does it produce well? I'm in Michigan also and I don't have any issue with my greens or anything with a flash or contrast to it...except black and blue. And Junebug. I don't know why but rivers, to fairly clear lakes to greenish colored pit lakes...black and blue and Junebug, for ME, have a combined, all time 3 fish. And those were at night using a Pit Boss as a topwater. 

On 1/2/2019 at 9:33 AM, MIbassyaker said:

I prefer junebug in plastics for the simple reason that green flake seems to outperform blue flake (or any other kind) where I fish. 

 

For jigs, I prefer browns and greens over both.

Same here. I've tried to give it a shot, ha, ha, even bringing ONLY those colors so I don't cheat. But I think the lack of production just makes me more bitter? BB and Junebug have never worked for me here, from the southern part of the state, up to several different places in mid-Michigan. 

[IneedAnewScreenNae-5165165]

I just a lot of ponds that have chocolate milk water clarity. I found black and blue is the ticket earlier in the season and in the dog days of summer when the water clarity is at it's worst it's junebug all day. Plum is also a good option in the summertime. 

[Tennessee Boy]

I go with Junebug most often but I do throw B&B, usually more so for craw baits.   I don’t remember why... I’m getting old.

 

I didn’t know it was legal to throw a jig that’s not black & blue.

[jtharris3]

On 4/24/2019 at 3:22 PM, Fishingintheweeds said:

Does it produce well? I'm in Michigan also and I don't have any issue with my greens or anything with a flash or contrast to it...except black and blue. And Junebug. I don't know why but rivers, to fairly clear lakes to greenish colored pit lakes...black and blue and Junebug, for ME, have a combined, all time 3 fish. And those were at night using a Pit Boss as a topwater. 

Same here. I've tried to give it a shot, ha, ha, even bringing ONLY those colors so I don't cheat. But I think the lack of production just makes me more bitter? BB and Junebug have never worked for me here, from the southern part of the state, up to several different places in mid-Michigan. 

 

The first two colors that I buy when stocking up on baits is green pumpkin and black and blue. I always make sure that I have those in the following baits; Rage Craw, D Bomb, Craw Fatty, Rage Menace, Power Worm, Senko, Yum Dinger, RI Beaver and Pitboss. Yes, B&B works great in Michigan.

[Fishingintheweeds]

15 minutes ago, jtharris3 said:

 

The first two colors that I buy when stocking up on baits is green pumpkin and black and blue. I always make sure that I have those in the following baits; Rage Craw, D Bomb, Craw Fatty, Rage Menace, Power Worm, Senko, Yum Dinger, RI Beaver and Pitboss. Yes, B&B works great in Michigan.

BB jigs, also? That's weird...Maybe I'm just not feeling it because of my past...ha, and recent experiences. What kinds of water are you fishing?

[jtharris3]

2 minutes ago, Fishingintheweeds said:

BB jigs, also? That's weird...Maybe I'm just not feeling it because of my past...ha, and recent experiences. What kinds of water are you fishing?

 

I fish mainly for LM Bass in the western end of Lake Erie and some inland lakes. I don’t fish a lot of jigs except for swim jigs and all of them are green pumpkin, B&B or white.

[Boomstick]

My personal theory is that I will use black in dirty water, low light conditions or fishing rather deep and junebug in clearer but still stained water. But I could be wrong on any given day.

[Takemetothebank]

So it depends on the junebug color but it is a transition between your natural colors green pump watermelon red and black or white the fleck doesent really matter basically your going off of how see through the bait is when you hold it up to light the only colors I really carry in my confidence baits are watermelon red green pumpkin junebug or some kind of transition color and black or black and blue here’s a road map 

 

5+ft visibility plus watermelon or electric shad (e shad or translucent colors with no fleck shine in super super Clearwater) 

~4-10 ft visibility green pumpkin or pumpkinseed or some type of brown very little silhouette 

 

2-7ft visibility junebug, big Texan oranges chartruse puts off somewhat of a silhouette but is still semi natural 

 

< 4ft visibility black and whatever fleck white something that you can’t see through when held up to the sun this makes your lure out off a silhouette and makes it easier for the bass to find it 

 

For fleck it depends on how much sun you have on cloudy days if you look at a red flecked bait it looks odd but on a sunny day it adds a lifelike reflection also something to think about I don’t however think color of the fleck matters and please don’t be the guy who has green pumpkin green fleck, orange fleck , red fleck, magic, purple, purple and green, all in the same color the fleck only adds a lifelike appeal in the sun the exact fleck doesent matter 

 

 

also when your in deep water you have to think about how much light penetration the fish have in water over 15 feet you may want to swap to darker colors depending on conditions 

 

also noted that this is just my selection process and that you can catch fish on black and blue or junebug in any water color 

 

 

to fully awnser your question for me June bug is a transition color between green pumpkin and black i throw it in water that has around 3-5 ft visibility up top I added the times that I think it works best in my lakes i almost always have green pumpkin for normal conditions of the water gets a little clearer I throw watermelon if it’s a little darker I throw junebug if it just rained and it’s muddy af I throw black and blue I also really like junebug for water over 15 ft however this can change day to day and fish to fish thats why you see some overlapping visibilities up top