Blue

[WRB]

The color blue at onetime was the predominate soft plastic worm color, remember blueberry jelly worms?

Today it's hard to find a blue worm locally, you can still find blue soft plastic worms and jig trailers and blue is used as a highlite accent color.

I can't remember when I stopped using blue and changed to purple. My soft plastics have blue neon highlites and crankbaits have blue accents.

I am going to get out my blue jigs and soft plastics and introduce them to the local bass population.

Tom

[scaleface]

I bought 200  , 8 inch blueberry JellyWorms two years ago .  They should last me awhile .

[j bab]

Great point. I wonder if new colors are superior or if people just like new stuff? I wonder the same about some of the old school hard baits, are they outclassed by modern baits or just not as cool/new so no one uses them? I'm sure it's a combination of both, but I'd love to see someone fish with only old baits for a period of time and report back

[Mobasser]

16 minutes ago, WRB said:

The color blue at onetime was the predominate soft plastic worm color, remember blueberry jelly worms?

Today it's hard to find a blue worm locally, you can still find blue soft plastic worms and jig trailers and blue is used as a highlite accent color.

I can't remember when I stopped using blue and changed to purple. My soft plastics have blue neon highlites and crankbaits have blue accents.

I am going to get out my blue jigs and soft plastics and introduce them to the local bass population.

Tom

Tom, I used to love blue also. When the first electric blue worms hit my area years ago they couldn't keep them in stock. I've leaned towards purple and grape for years now too. But I'm sure blue will still work good, and agree that their hard to find also. Every color of blue now is a variation of blue mixed with other colors.

[scaleface]

5 minutes ago, j bab said:

Great point. I wonder if new colors are superior or if people just like new stuff? I wonder the same about some of the old school hard baits, are they outclassed by modern baits or just not as cool/new so no one uses them? I'm sure it's a combination of both, but I'd love to see someone fish with only old baits for a period of time and report back

I  use a lot of out of production baits but quit recommending them   because people cant purchase them anyway . 

[Mobasser]

I believe that blue was also Bill Dances favorite color for years too. 

[J Francho]

I don't think blue has lost any favor.  Just about every soft plastic line has some type of blue in it.

[flatcreek]

7 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

I believe that blue was also Bill Dances favorite color for years too. 

He throws a bps blue swipeworm alot on his recent shows.it’s a knockoff of the stembridge fliptail.

[Mike L]

52 minutes ago, scaleface said:

I bought 200  , 8 inch blueberry JellyWorms two years ago .  They should last me awhile .

I did also and that is the only large plastic I've gotten hit on all summer. 

 

 

 

Mike

[Catt]

The first bass I caught on Toledo Bend was on a blue Rebel Ringworm.

 

The first 15 bass limit I caught on Toledo Bend was on a blue Rebel Ringworm.

 

My favorite jig trailer is Sapphire Blue!

 

I forgot, one of my hottest lures this year!

 

 

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[TnRiver46]

Ironically, our very own @Bluebasser86 recently uploaded a video using a blue texas rig. He throws a lot of blue vibrating jigs too

[river-rat]

A blue plastic worm is still one of my favorites. Back in the 70's and 80's I used a blue Fliptail worm with great success.

 

Fliptail is back in business and I ordered 100 blue worms earlier this year and they still work. I used them weekend before last and caught more on this bait than the others. 

 

I also use Sapphire Blue Zoom trailers, Rage Craws and Rage Bugs.

 

Fliptail Lures - https://fliptail-lures.com/shop?olsPage=products 

[NYWayfarer]

An article in the latest In-Fisherman was about Bass vision studies. They concluded that Bass see blue similar to black...

 

Don't kill the messenger.

[tander]

2 hours ago, Mobasser said:

I believe that blue was also Bill Dances favorite color for years too. 

It was. He once said, it don't matter what color you throw, as long as it is blue.

[Dirtyeggroll]

52 minutes ago, NYWayfarer said:

An article in the latest In-Fisherman was about Bass vision studies. They concluded that Bass see blue similar to black...

 

Don't kill the messenger.

I was just about to reference some of the data published about this...

 

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

[Bluebasser86]

Sapphire blue is one of my favorite colors or plastic, jig, and bladed jig. I'm fine if nobody is fishing that color. I've got a 100pk of sapphire blue BIg Bite Baits YoMommas that's been my best pastic for about 2 months straight now. 

[OkobojiEagle]

1 hour ago, Dirtyeggroll said:

I was just about to reference some of the data published about this...

 

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

Perhaps you would give us a synopsis of the article.

 

oe

[fin]

5 minutes ago, OkobojiEagle said:

Perhaps you would give us a synopsis of the article.

 

oe

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In conclusion, this study showed that bass possess dichromatic vision with red and green cells in addition to a rod cell. A simple visual model of this visual system indicated that there are colors such as chartreuse yellow that bass should perceive as being similar to white. Our behavioral assays provided good support for the model prediction that chartreuse yellow is indistinguishable from white. The behavioral assays also indicated that blue is indistinguishable from black. Bass could readily identify red and green and could distinguish these colors from achromatic alternatives. Bass from Illinois and Florida populations possess similar photoreceptor sensitivities despite differences in environmental light composition. Whether bass from these light environments have innately different learning abilities or preferences for colors in currently unknown. Our findings have implications for the recreational fishing industry and for natural systems where bass are often a top predator.

However:

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Variation in the perception of visual cues is also complicated by the fact lighting environments vary dramatically in aquatic habitats. Lighting environments can vary due to the effects of water depth, algae, turbidity, dissolved organic matter, and time of day.

 

...

 

Hence, variation in visual system properties and variation in lighting environments make it difficult to predict how different fish species perceive visual cues in their habitats.

 

[rtwvumtneer6]

1 hour ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Sapphire blue is one of my favorite colors or plastic, jig, and bladed jig. I'm fine if nobody is fishing that color. I've got a 100pk of sapphire blue BIg Bite Baits YoMommas that's been my best pastic for about 2 months straight now. 

Haven't tried those, yet, but the Net Bait Paca Chunk? Jig trailers in Flippin' Blue takes a black/blue jig to the next level.  

[NYWayfarer]

 “The behavioral assays also indicated that blueis indistinguishable from black.”

 

That’s pretty much what the In-Fisherman article said. Now that I went back and read it again they were writing about the article @Dirtyeggroll referenced.

 

 

[Big Rick]

My favorite and most productive spinnerbait for years....

 

 

 

[primetime]

I feel like everyone in Florida uses either a black and blue soft bait or something in a green pumpkin blue mix....then Junebug...

 

I still have a pack of the Mann's Blue Jelly Worms. I should bring them back out and use them. I use the bright fire and ice blue culprits on sunny days when I am struggling and sometimes they come through.

 

THe Manns Blue color is a different blue than anything i have seen in years. You are right. I bet they would work well instead of a trick worm, especially with the translucent color, I always feel Roboworms and culprits work well because of the different colors compared to other baits, Mann's was once the worm to use, so has to work just as good today.

 

I have never seen a blue translucent Senko which is strange...Also Grape worms which were my favorite back in the day are never in color lineups. Everything has flake in it or a solid purple....I almost never use solid black anymore now that I think about it, except for trailers....Strange how the industry will change things up and stop selling good colors.....Producto has an 8" straight worm with a small paddle tail that is in a grape color that I love and alot of people actually use that worm, also in electric blue....But its an older niche Company/OEM.

[scaleface]

Blue Jelly worms I plan on throwing some next week .

[Raul]

Blue don't work at all

 

Red Shad, Tequila Sunrise and Fire n'Ice baby !

 

 

[r83srock]

3 hours ago, Big Rick said:

My favorite and most productive spinnerbait for years....

 

 

 

I have a few of those, like em a lot. I’m big on flippin blue and sapphire blue jig trailers and black and blue jigs are pretty much the only jig color I throw.