Spinnerbait blade color

[DitchPanda]

I remember seeing copper blade spinnerbaits when I was young...they seemed to go away and now I see more of them the past few years. I'll be honest I love spinnerbaits to a fault almost and always have but have never thrown a copper color blade. They intrigue me enough that I've bought and made several this winter and I'm wondering who in the bassresource community throws them? When do you throw them instead of say a gold blade?

[Hammer 4]

I'll throw a spinnerbait when ever I fish. As for blade colors, mostly I go with silver or gold willow's. I'm going to brake down and grab a couple with colored blades, maybe white, chartreuse, and possibly some sort of red color just to see if they catch fish better or not.  

[MIbassyaker]

Yeah, I have a few with copper blades. I actually fish with gold and copper blades more than silver.

My rules of thumb are mostly about forage and water clarity/stain. I like gold blades for places I fish that have mostly bluegill and sunfish forage. I like copper blades for darker, brownish-colored water, which in my area is common in the rivers.

[Boomstick]

I am honestly not as good with blade color as I am with skirt color and blade types themselves, but generally nickel puts off a lot of flash in clear water, and gold will be more visible in stained water while still putting off flash. Painted blades also work in stained water, in particular brighter colors. I believe copper falls more inline with painted blades in that it's particularly good for muddy water that they won't see a lot of flash in.

 

I often like hybrid gold and nickel blades myself, especially in water with a lot of chop.

[jimmyjoe]

   I had always thrown nickel single and nickel/gold double Colorado blades. Because of the replies that I got here on BR regarding black blades on spinnerbaits, I'm going to throw single-black-bladed spinnerbaits and copper bladed spinnerbaits, both with black skirts, this year. I fish muddy waters, and willow-leaf blades .... in any color .... have not produced for me. Copper spoons, OTOH, have produced early spring and early fall. Go figure.    ?   jj

[Boomstick]

1 minute ago, jimmyjoe said:

   I had always thrown nickel single and nickel/gold double Colorado blades. Because of the replies that I got here on BR regarding black blades on spinnerbaits, I'm going to throw single-black-bladed spinnerbaits and copper bladed spinnerbaits, both with black skirts, this year. I fish muddy waters, and willow-leaf blades .... in any color .... have not produced for me. Copper spoons, OTOH, have produced early spring and early fall. Go figure.    ?   jj

Painted black blades are also good for night fishing.

[DitchPanda]

My bad I just saw that I put this in the wrong forum and I'm not sure how to move it

[MIbassyaker]

3 minutes ago, DitchPanda said:

My bad I just saw that I put this in the wrong forum and I'm not sure how to move it

The moderators will move it when they see it.

[Boomstick]

4 minutes ago, DitchPanda said:

My bad I just saw that I put this in the wrong forum and I'm not sure how to move it

A mod will have to move it for you. No worries, honest mistake.

[keagbassr]

I love me some copper blades. I like to throw them in spring and fall on cloudy days though I'll use them on sunny windy days of I'm feeling the vibe. Bass seem to like them as well. 

[Dens228]

I use silver or gold.........silver when it's clear or clearish water, gold when it's not. 

[greentrout]

temperatures are now in the mid sixties to low seventies on the gulf coast ... pre spawn and spawn are here now ... on the water next week ...

 

favorite spinnerbait for prespawn ... humdinger 1/4 3/8 oz. colorado indiana blades ...l like gold blades in all water ...

 

 

good fishing ...

[zell_pop1]

I like the white colored ones on a cloudy morning or maybe chartreuse if water is stained. Of course black at night or muddy water.

[DitchPanda]

I'm jealous of you guys that live in the south... until I was 17 I lived down by the gulf and loved it... I've lived in northwest Iowa  for 20 years now and best case scenario we have at least a month id guess until ice out

 

Back to the blade color deal I've used colored blades with ok success..the copper blades really caught my eye again last weekend as I walked through Scheels and found a pack of hammered size 6 colorado copper blades for a couple bucks. I bought a pack, came home and modified a spinnerbait with one and a parrot colored skirt.

One of the ponds I fish is large...honestly more of a very small lake... It borders a river so it floods often and I'm thinking these large copper blades may be the ticket in there

[OnthePotomac]

At least on the Potomac we generally use gold Colorado blades in really cold, murky water then in spring go to a gold Colorado and silver willow, then in summer double silver willows.

[Fishes in trees]

I'm most likely to choose a copper blade when I have water visibility of less than 2 feet.  No real reason for that choice except that is when that color of blades have worked for me in the past.

[DitchPanda]

Thanks for all the replies...sounds like I was on the right track of when to use them..I will for sure be throwing some this spring as I'm sure to be confronted with muddy water

[Bluebasser86]

I have quite a few copper bladed spinnerbaits and the lack of options of baits with copper blades is a part of why I started making my own spinnerbaits. The copper War Eagle has caught a ton of smallmouth for me.

[scaleface]

A big single copper Colorado use to be my favorite spinnerbait . I rarely throw copper anymore but still carry a couple .  

[Catt]

Years ago I made & sold spinnerbaits to a select few tournament anglers. Being the dumb Cajun that I am my blade/skirt combination were not based off water clarity, they were based off available food source.

 

Bluegill, Bream, Google-eye Perch, & other various sunfish the #1 food source in southern waters. Copper better inmates these better than gold or silver.

[roadwarrior]

20 hours ago, Catt said:

Years ago I made & sold spinnerbaits to a select few tournament anglers. Being the dumb Cajun that I am my blade/skirt combination were not based off water clarity, they were based off available food source.

 

Bluegill, Bream, Google-eye Perch, & other various sunfish the #1 food source in southern waters. Copper better inmates these better than gold or silver.

[Munkin]

This year I plan on trying a lot of different colored blades.

 

Allen 

[GoneFishingLTN]

On 2/15/2020 at 9:54 AM, Catt said:

Years ago I made & sold spinnerbaits to a select few tournament anglers. Being the dumb Cajun that I am my blade/skirt combination were not based off water clarity, they were based off available food source.

 

Bluegill, Bream, Google-eye Perch, & other various sunfish the #1 food source in southern waters. Copper better inmates these better than gold or silver.

If you had to make a box of must have blade which sizes and styles would you buy?

[Catt]

1 hour ago, GoneFishingLTN said:

If you had to make a box of must have blade which sizes and styles would you buy?

 

For our marshes a #4 or 4 1/2 willowleaf & a #2 Colorado.

 

Toledo Bend a # 5 1/2 & 4 1/2 willowleaf 

Marshes ?

 

 

[river-rat]

Copper is one of my favorite blade colors. I use a #5 single blade with a blue/chartreuse/white rubber skirt like Catt is showing above.