Popular Colors That Don't Produce for You!

[Mobasser]

I know green pumpkin is a favorite for lots of folks, but it's only been fair for me.Black/blue shades have worked best in worms. Jigs, I've done best with natural craw colors.

[RyneB]

pink. Some of my club members swear by a pink wacky worm and pink chatterbait. I cant seem to get bit on it.

[NYWayfarer]

Black/Blue is my least productive color, followed by Watermelon.

[FryDog62]

On 8/30/2018 at 5:40 AM, Catt said:

Green Pumpkin ?

X2.  Such a bland, typical color that Blends right in... 

[islandbass]

8 hours ago, thinkingredneck said:

I fish stained and muddy water.  Reds are not consistent for me.  Trying to find something as good as June Bug.

Another awesome color pattern I love but has never produced, lol. 

[Hillbilly Bennett]

On 8/29/2018 at 3:47 PM, Troy1985s said:

I know red shad is a pretty popular soft plastic color.  I've tried it several times and never had a bite.  

I also have never caught a single bass on red Shad or plum. I know that others catch fish on them in the summer, but they just don’t work for me. 

[All Day Fishing]

On 8/29/2018 at 2:52 PM, Brew City Bass said:

Never had much luck on chartreuse. I have my best luck on extremely natural colors.

I am right there with you, for some reason I have not had much luck with it.  I will continue to try it though, especially for Smallies.

[Spankey]

If i were in your shoe I would not worry about black, blue or black and blue when it comes to jigs, worms, spinnerbaits or cranks. No sense in dealing with the frustration. There are way to many options. I would expand on what is working and buy some colors that are variants of what works. Chuck the black and blue on a day when things are not going too well. Days when you can't buy a hit and than it may be something that will save the day.

 

 I don't do very well with red crankbaits. I have nice baits, red versions of what styles I use. I've tried seven ways to Sunday to make it work for me. I tried, I backed off. It's one thing to try a color pattern to see how it goes but I'm not gonna throw it all day and get frustrated. But I'm all about giving it an honest effort.

 

What style of baits are you trying to throw in those unproductive colors? 

[Brew City Bass]

1 hour ago, All Day Fishing said:

I am right there with you, for some reason I have not had much luck with it.  I will continue to try it though, especially for Smallies.

I honestly feel like I could catch a bass on any color if I worked it long enough to have confidence. 

I usually pick up chartreuse for like 10 mins then put it down if I don't get *****. Just how it goes. I never worked one long enough probably.

[Munkin]

I can't believe Green Pumkin made this list. I have caught fish in every water clarity in the following states with it: Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, Georgia, South Carolina, Washington, Washington DC, and Missouri using it. The only place I have encountered where green pumkin did not work was in the engineering pond on Ft. Leonard Wood.

 

Allen

[Lead Head]

Pb&j and black/blue are poor performers for me. I have caught a few with them but have never had a good day on them. Probably has as much to do with confidence as anything else. 

[Russ E]

in soft plastics it is White. 

Pink on any bait for me does not get bit

[fishwizzard]

It's pink plastics for me.  I spent a lot of the spring trying to make a pink fluke and Trickworm work, but I caught very little on either.  I think next year I am going to try Merthiolate colored ones instead, maybe I need a different shade of pink to make them work.   

[everythingthatswims]

On ‎8‎/‎29‎/‎2018 at 9:43 PM, Bluebasser86 said:

Watermelon seed, I've caught some.on it, but nothing like all the variations with colored flakes in it.

I hear you on this one. Watermelon seed vs watermelon red flake from zoom look very similar but I swear the red flake catches more.

[Spankey]

On August 30, 2018 at 6:22 AM, thinkingredneck said:

I fish stained and muddy water.  Reds are not consistent for me.  Trying to find something as good as June Bug.

I'm out here in mid Atlantic. Stained and heavy stained are the norm. 

 

I tried to to give red an honest effort. Overall Didn't make out real well with it. Did manage a couple of fish in the lower Potomac with it. 

 

Got the chance back a couple of years ago to talk with Ish Monroe about using reds. A time when I was really trying to make it work for me. Great guy. But he's a Cali guy and maybe his parts of the delta and a few guys who tried to give me some insite from Texas are fishing a section of the country where reds are found as a norm or a large part of color change in crawdad molting process. 

 

Ive seen color change to craws in my area but not to where they take on reds. It might possibly have some red in it at some point in time but that period my be short compared to other parts of the country. 

 

I don't believe color means everything. May mean very little. But if you struggle with a color move on. Maybe I'll fish a part of the country some day where reds kick but. At least I won't have to run out or order them. 

 

 

[Columbia Craw]

Pink or bubble gum.  Ain't gonna do it no way no how bubba.

[Montanaro]

My dad swears by pink...cant get into it.

 

But I have a disdain for watermelon redflake.

 

Only time I have caught em with that color is burning a swimbait over lilypads...and color matters very little then. 

 

I wont even buy the color for anything

 

As for hardbaits....I have no issue with colors....they all work for me at times

[J.Vincent]

Red Shad is popular but I don’t seem to do well with Red Shad in Michigan; but it’s also known as a regional color with greater productivity in Texas, Louisiana and Florida. I don’t exactly know for sure why this is, but I avoid Red plastics like the plague. 

[Koz]

Black has never worked for me. I had a black Whopper Plopper 130 and never even had a strike on it.

 

But I plan to change that tomorrow. I bought a black Whopper Plopper 90 and I'm going to fish the darn thing until I catch something and break my bad luck streak with black lures. Cloudy skies tomorrow show it should be a decent day for topwaters in the early evening. Fingers crossed...

[snake95]

I've caught largemouth bass at the northern limit of their range in northern Ontario with junebug that is supposed to be great in tannic FL waters.

Caught them on just about every color in a crystal clear south FL pond.

Caught plenty on pink and white in GA ponds.

Caught them on realistic Kietech silver flash minnow in fast-moving but highly stained water in north GA.

When it comes to color for me: haven't met one that won't get a bite.

[Bankbeater]

I have never had very good luck with baby bass, pink, chartreuse, or a chartreuse tail. Watermelon red is funny.  Either the bass will go after it as soon as it hits the water, or they will ignore it completely.

[Scott F]

I’m not sure who defines what colors are “popular”. It must be the cool guys who hang around the bait shop. 

While not specifically a color, I’ve never caught fish on lures with realistic paint jobs. It makes sense to me that bait fish coloration helps them blend in to their surroundings. Those that stick out from the background would be easier for predators to find and be eaten first. I want my bait to be visible and look like an easy meal. 

[burrows]

Red crankbaits