Red Worms

[Heron]

When fishing worms, is the color Red, actually a a productive color?  

 

How would you rank it against other colors Like Green Pumpkin, Junebug, Watermelon,etc?

[WRB]

The human eye can see thousands of shades of red, blue and green, we don't know how many shades of those colors a bass can see. 

Every lake that I have fished will have a specific color the bass prefer over other colors and that can change hourly. I prefer using darker shades of red like cardinal verses lighter scarlet. I also prefer red highlites in some lures.

Tom

 

[Darren.]

I haven't had "great" success with worms in the red spectrum as far

as fully colored. Where I *have* had success is with red flakes

in the worms - i.e., watermelon red flake.

 

I use that color in a variety of soft plastics. Good stuff, IMO.

[Bluebasser86]

Plum-apple and redbug are 2 of my very favorite worm colors. If I had to pick, ,I'd rather have redbug over watermelon as long as I got green pumpkin for my other color. Not sure I own any junebug worms.

[flatcreek]

Zoom red bug is one of my favorites year round

[LonnieP]

A Red Shad Berkley power worm has always been productive for me. 

[Kidflex]

I love fishing red colored worms. Redbug, plum apple, red shad. Especially mid to late summer. 

[RealtreeByGod]

My Red Shad Laminate Senkos were markedly less productive than Watermelon Candy in the same area and same conditions. 

 

Take that as you will. 

[Big Swimbait]

Not really red (redish orange), but the Zoom Trick Worm in Merthiolate has produced for me for years. Deadly in the Spring, then I might as well put it up until the dog days of Summer. Then it gets hammered again.

[ohboyitsrobby]

I fish 3 reddish colors a lot in the summer. Plum, red bug and cranberry. Sometimes one outperforms the other but they all 3 are a staple of my summertime 

[RealtreeByGod]

Does Plum Apple even count as red? At least in flukes, it's more purplish, looks like a Junebug Candy or something. 

 

Also have never caught anything on these, despite catching a bunch on Green Pumpkin Magic, White, and White / Chart Tail.

 

 

[lo n slo]

https://m.bassmaster.com/slideshow/bryan-kerchal-remembered

 

this reminds me of the late Bryan Kerchal, who won the 94 Classic on High Rock Lake by throwing a red shad worm around docks. my hero.

[Spankey]

8 hours ago, lo n slo said:

https://m.bassmaster.com/slideshow/bryan-kerchal-remembered

 

this reminds me of the late Bryan Kerchal, who won the 94 Classic on High Rock Lake by throwing a red shad worm around docks. my hero.

Great post! ?? Thanks. 

[Catt]

My PB was caught on a Red Chrome Rat-L-Trap ?

 

Rage Tail's Delta Red is deadly!

 

 

[Bluebasser86]

9 hours ago, RealtreeByGod said:

Does Plum Apple even count as red? At least in flukes, it's more purplish, looks like a Junebug Candy or something. 

 

Also have never caught anything on these, despite catching a bunch on Green Pumpkin Magic, White, and White / Chart Tail.

 

 

To me it does, it's a dark red whereas Junebug is decidedly purple. 

[Log Catcher]

The Zoom Red Bug color is the only red I have had any luck with. I know a guy that swears by the Cherry Seed color and I can't get a fish to even look at it.

[Bankbeater]

I’ve never had very good luck with red plastics, but red or orange lipless baits seem to work great in murky or muddy water. 

[ChrisD46]

First bass I ever caught was on a red plastic  worm with a couple of bright plastic orange / red beads and a small silver propeller on the front in the mid 1960's ... Today I consider plum , plum apple , red bug , etc. colors to all  be "red" worms .