What are your staple colors?

[Bankbeater]

Crankbaits: gray and fire tiger.

Soft plastics: purple, black, green pumpkin, black/blue. 

Spinnerbaits: white

Jigs: black, black/blue, watermelon, orange/black. 

Topwater: bone, black, chrome. 

Lipless cranks: orange, gold/black back, chrome/blue back. 

[FryDog62]

I experiment with and enjoy using about every color except green pumpkin.. ?

[Big Mike in Fl]

Color is a funny thing, I always feel like we put way more thought in it than we should. I tend to believe if a bass is gonna hit a black and blue worm, it’s gonna hit a June bug just the same. I feel like if a fish is gonna hit an Arkansas shiner then it’s probably gonna hit baby bass, and so on and so forth. I’m sure some people will disagree but I’ve never seen much of a change. 

    I will say in my “home waters” of Garcia reservoir, when I first started throwing senko style baits, smoke shad seemed to be the best color. After a few years they seemed to lose interest in that and keyed in on watermelon/red flake. That lasted for a while and now they seem to predominantly go after junebug. I’m not saying the other colors don’t still catch some, just that June bug seems to catch the most. But I’d bet others who fish that lake will tell you a different color works better. 

     With all that said, here are the colors I typically use;

 

spinner baits are are almost always white, maybe sexy shad. 

Swim jigs are either bluegill or baitfish type color depending what I’m trying to imitate. 

sticks are usually either junebug or watermelon/red flake

trick worms on bottom are typically dark, but if I fish them higher on the water column I like white. 

Swim baits and flukes, cranks, and top water plugs are always some sort of dark back/ light bottom

jigs/creatures/craws are almost always black, blue, or brown.

 

Pretty much, match the available forage. i’m probably missing some stuff here but that’s pretty much my staples.

 

[Hawkeye21]

Black/blue

Green Pumpkin

White

Black

Sexy Shad

[Black Hawk Basser]

Cranks: Red craw, shad, firetiger, chrome

 

Spinnerbaits: White, Black/Red

 

Plastics: White, Shad variations, brown/blue, motor oil

 

Jigs: Brown, black

 

I recently watched a video from Nick Lindner saying that bass probably see chartreuse the same as white, and they see blue the same as black.  So white/chartreuse and black/blue baits probably look just all white and all black to the bass.  Our eyes perceive a heck of a lot more than theirs do.  To me, that means keep it simple and you'll be fine.

[yosef]

I fish a lot of clear water and sprayed grass is one of my favorites. 

[NittyGrittyBoy]

Whichever color the bait monkey says I need. 

[MIbassyaker]

On 4/24/2019 at 11:55 AM, Pickle_Power said:

Cranks: Red craw, shad, firetiger, chrome

 

Spinnerbaits: White, Black/Red

 

Plastics: White, Shad variations, brown/blue, motor oil

 

Jigs: Brown, black

 

I recently watched a video from Nick Lindner saying that bass probably see chartreuse the same as white, and they see blue the same as black.  So white/chartreuse and black/blue baits probably look just all white and all black to the bass.  Our eyes perceive a heck of a lot more than theirs do.  To me, that means keep it simple and you'll be fine.

 

He may have been referring to a study that was discussed here not long ago. Here's the study:

https://academic.oup.com/cz/article/65/1/43/4924236

 

And the thread discussing it is here:

 

 

[Munkin]

Soft plastics: GP, watermelon. black, junebug, and smoke sometimes with different colored flake.

Topwater: white or black belly (this covers buzzbaits as well).

Jerkbaits: Translucent (e.g. Ghost minnow), reflective (silver, gold, etc), and Opaque (shell white, Ayu. etc.) this category is where I carry the most baits in different styles and colors spring and fall.

Jigs: GP, Black, brown, and or a combination of the 3.

Swim jigs: Whitish, sunfish, or GP.

Spinnerbaits: Whitish, shad, solid black. and whatever random color I decided to make that week.

Crankbaits: shad, chart. w/black back, and crayfish for the river.

 

Allen

[Tennessee Boy]

Me trying to choose a color is like this dog trying to choose a tennis ball.

 

 

[Boomstick]

For soft plastics, I always have a green pumpkin and brown color. Often black and blue, and also for worms I usually keep some brihgt pink ones around as that can be effective.

 

For jigs, I generally keep white and brown or black (or some mix around) and may add in a white/chartreuse color for dirty water as well.

 

For spinnerbaits, my theory is there's generally four categories. White for clear water, white/chartreuse or chartreuse for dirty water, a mix of white and milder color like a sexy shad color for example will work in most water, and black for night.

 

For cranks, I'll make sure I have some silver for the spring, bluegill, perch and craw colors, although cranks are the one lure I'll really try all sorts of different colors. Last year I made a killing with a silver & blue colored River2Sea Biggie Smalls crank.

 

For topwater (and even square bills to a lesser extent), I believe the belly color is the most important, so I'll try some yellow and some white.

[Kyle S]

On 4/22/2019 at 7:13 PM, bassinwithburg said:

If I had to make it as simple as i possibly could:

• Anything that goes on a hook: Green pumpkin & Black and Blue 
• Skirt colors: Green Pumpkin, Black and Blue, Shad, White & Chartreuse
• Cranks: Red (craw), sexy shad, ghost shad, firetiger, bluegill
• Jerkbaits: Ghost Minnow, pearl, White & Chartreuse
• Any Topwater (belly color): white, black

Honorable mentions: Watermelon (red flake or seed), plum, junebug

I have to second this...Keeping things simple such as color selection, I feel truly helps me be more efficient while out on the water.?

[teamfyss]

On ‎4‎/‎28‎/‎2019 at 4:08 AM, Kyle S said:

I have to second this...Keeping things simple such as color selection, I feel truly helps me be more efficient while out on the water.?

Exactly why I made this post, I'm really trying to keep my tackle selection as "small" as possible with solid go-to baits.

[928JLH]

Green pumpkin, black and blue, white, bream, chartreuse, and ghost minnow.

 

Keep it pretty simple. Do change things up depending on the seasons. Gotta throw your reds for pre spawn. Always usually run white shad profiles winter time. Keep my AYU, Sungill, and natural colors for post spawn through summer not deviating much.

[greentrout]

90 percent of my plastic fishing is with zoom trick worms ... in my worm binder are the following three colors: junebug/red fleck .... green pumpkin ... watermelon/red fleck ...

 

i believe in the kiss method ...

 

good fishing ... 

[Largies4Life]

On ‎4‎/‎22‎/‎2019 at 7:50 PM, bassinwithburg said:

I have been exclusively fishing dirty jigs for about 2 years now

I'm the same exact way. All my confidence is in Dirty Jigs, but I did come across the 6th sense jigs and am giving those a try this year because they have that screw lock and I think my trailers will hold up a lot longer on that screw lock compared to the keeper on the Dirty Jigs. That's my only complaint with them, I just burn through trailers so often with them.

[HeyCoach]

I had luck for several seasons with an oxblood red finesse worm on a shaky head. 

[N Florida Mike]

My go -to colors are Watermelon seed , ,watermelon red., watermelon.slice,

  .June bug, red shad. Green pumpkin, esp. With a chartruese tail.

A newer color that yum came out with is Alabama craw. Sort of a june bug on one side and pumkin on the other. Bass love it !

I have caught fish on most colors but these do the best for me in the moderatelystained to clear waters I fish. In dark,  tannic stained waters I do best with black, black grape or June bug.(;which makes it a very versatile color )

I believe colors do matter, depending on water clarity and forage color.

[Sam]

Junebug

Green Pumpkin

Watermelon

 

Depending on the water clarity.

 

Silver for crankbaits.

 

White and chartreuse for spinnerbaits and Chatterbaits.

[wcjohnson]

Soft plastics - green pumpkin, watermelon w/ red fleck, black and blue, smoke with red or purple fleck, and the wildcard - sweet potato pie (Wave 5" Tiki-Sticks) never seen a color like it, but it works!

 

Jigs - black and blue, green pumpkin, brown

 

Cranks - any one of or combination of the 'sexy' type colors; chartreuse, teal, aqua green

 

Spinners/Chatters - bluegill, black, white

 

Top - black and white

 

I'm a sucker for unique or cool looking soft plastics like the sweet potato pie or tequila sunrise from how well they worked at farm ponds while I was growing up. Gotta love the Walmart sin bin baits!