Black Color Top Water Walking Bait ?

[ChrisD46]

*Looking to investigate  adding to my top water walking bait collection ... Anybody use a black color walking bait such as a Sexy Dawg , Spook ,etc. ?  I have a black color Whopper Plopper (Loon) already for night / heavy overcast conditions  - but no black color  walk - the - dog - top water baits , so trying to determine if needed ? When you might use , etc. ?

[jbsoonerfan]

I just ordered the J-Walker in the maverick color to try them out. I also ordered 2 Choppos in the same color to give them a shot as well. I have always been mostly white to clear color walking bait fan but I will sure give these a shot.

[Mobasser]

I've done pretty good on the older Heddon black shore minnow color with a spook.

[snake95]

2 hours ago, ChrisD46 said:

Anybody use a black color walking bait

I use black sammys with yellow stripes (archer bee) and have done well on them in North GA ponds this year.

 

I have been using a larger 1 oz size (128 maybe?).

 

I wound up with this bait because it was cheap, not because I thought I needed the color.

 

Kinda ugly, but the bass didn't think so.

 

Threw it during post spawn and small bass hammered it no matter how I fished it.  

 

[plawren53202]

I don't fish walking baits a lot, but a black buzzbait, Whopper Plopper (loon), or toad are my most consistent producers in topwaters. I use them any time light is low, including clouds but also that first morning/last evening light. I can't imagine why the same wouldn't apply to a walking bait.

 

I really like black baits that have just a spot of a bright color on the bottom. For example my black size 90 Choppo has just a touch of a bright orange on the bottom, just behind the eyelet (the front of the body). Seems like I get a lot of fish that target that because seems like I get a lot more front treble hookups on the Choppo than my Loon pattern Whopper Ploppers (solid black on the bottom). Having said that, fish love the all black bottom Loon WP too, it saved me from the skunk last evening LOL. 

[Tizi]

I just picked up a 6th Sense Catwalk and Speed Wake in Black Magic...

[ChrisD46]

I would think in low light I would do better with a whopper plopper, buzz bait , etc. in black color but you never know - I figure it can't hurt to have a black walking bait then.

[MIbassyaker]

3 hours ago, snake95 said:

I use black sammys with yellow stripes (archer bee) and have done well on them in North GA ponds this year.

 

I have been using a larger 1 oz size (128 maybe?).

 

I wound up with this bait because it was cheap, not because I thought I needed the color.

 

Kinda ugly, but the bass didn't think so.

 

Threw it during post spawn and small bass hammered it no matter how I fished it.  

 

 

I use the Sammy and Gunfish in this color too.

[TnRiver46]

If you want it flat black, I would just paint one myself 

[papajoe222]

A black pattern (Black Shore Shad) Super Spook Jr is one of my most productive daytime producers. 

[Bluebasser86]

I use to do really well on a black Spook at night. Stopped fishing it because I dodged the bait flying back at me too many times from overanxious hook sets. I have a Super Spook Jr black with a chartreuse back I had a friend paint for me but I haven't ever even thrown it, looks great though.

[Brett's_daddy]

That new 6th Sense Catwalk in Black Magic looks great!

[BassNJake]

Black or white anytime, I let the fish tell me if they have a preference

Sometimes you can start with the black one in the early morning and keep throwing it all day

I tend to walk faster than others and really think its about the profile as seen from underwater and not so much the color.

 

But then you have the days where they'll eat a bone one and nothing else 

So there's that aspect as well

 

 

 

 

[Bluebasser86]

9 hours ago, Brett's_daddy said:

That new 6th Sense Catwalk in Black Magic looks great!

I don't know about that color, but that bait is pretty sweet.

[roadwarrior]

[Brett's_daddy]

11 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I don't know about that color, but that bait is pretty sweet.

What color is that, the Shad Scales? Besides a great paint job is there anything that makes this different/better than other Spook-style pencil baits?

[boostr]

12 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I don't know about that color, but that bait is pretty sweet.

Chrome Black back walkers work for me as well.

 

I use black topwaters during the day because I don't fish at night, and they work just as well as white or natural color.

[Bluebasser86]

3 hours ago, Brett's_daddy said:

What color is that, the Shad Scales? Besides a great paint job is there anything that makes this different/better than other Spook-style pencil baits?

Yeah it's shad scales color. It's one of the closest baits to the Paycheck Repoman I've found.

[DitchPanda]

For me I've had better luck on bone or shad colored poppers and walkers. But for buzzbait and frog I throw black 90% of the time.

[WRB]

Big black top water walking lures are standard for day time musky anglers.

I see 3 custom Vixen lures on eBay, 1 is black, $40 for the set.

I have a musky size black wooden Jitter Bug and custom trout color available, not exactly walking lures.

Tom

[Munkin]

My two colors for topwater are black or white belly. While it doesn't catch the numbers a MS Black (I think that is what it is called) LC Sammy has caught me a lot of bigger SM in the river.

 

Allen