Crankbait eye color

[Guitarfish]

I was going thru the auction baits and was looking at crankbaits.  I said 'No, if it had yellow eyes I'd bid'.  Then I realized my go to baits all have a yellow eye.

 

Anyone else choose one eye color over the other in the same style crankbait?  

[Mike L]

No!

I really don’t care if it has an eye or not, and certainly not what color it would be. 

 

 

 

 

Mike

[Teal]

No.  Eyes dont matter to me.  I have some repaints that dont even have eyes..

 

[Jig Man]

Yes red.  I want mine to look slightly hungover so they will be easy prey.

[WRB]

Color discussionns for bass fishing is always interesting.

Between 1900 to about 1950 wooden plugs (crankbaits) had colored realistic glass eyes.

About 1950 era lures stopped being made with glass eyes changing to paint on eyes; white with black dot, red andxyellow with black dot being predominates D continues today. 

Arounf the early 90's halogram eyes started to be popular and common today.

Yellow goes in and out of favor, not with bass but bass anglers.

In my Flea market lures several decades of lures are posted, interesting eye colors. 

My favorite Bomber 7A ghost has big yellow eyes for example.

Tom

[Guitarfish]

14 minutes ago, Jig Man said:

Yes red.  I want mine to look slightly hungover so they will be easy prey.

The lure I was talking about had red eyes.  My luck has always leaned toward eyes that stand out (like yellow).

 

Even in the holo eyes I look for a gold or yellow ring.

[Dens228]

I barely even worry about the color of the entire lure.  I doubt I could tell you a single color of any eye on any lure I own.  

Light, dark, ghost............those are my general choices.  

[jimmyjoe]

   I consider eyes (and eye color) only on lures I retrieve very sl-o-o-w-ly. And those are usually very high in the water column or very low. If they're low, I want a big eye, preferably white. If they're high, I don't care about the color, I just want some contrast between the eye and the body.

   This isn't etched in stone. It's just something I've noticed.      jj

[DitchPanda]

Guess I never gave any care or consideration to eye color. Honestly I think bait color matters some but it's not super important. I give far more attention to bait length, bill style and diving depth.

[Guitarfish]

I think I agree with you about 90% but,  I have always picked lures that would seem to have coloring you might find in nature.  Crawdad colors are a favorite, shad colors, etc.  (Not confident in bright clown colors etc.).

 

If I have the depth range, shape and size,  I then pick my favorite colors.  If it looks like something to eat to me, the confidence my fish target will eat it grows.  And if it has yellow eyes well..........

[Bluebasser86]

A lot of my most productive hard baits don't even have eyes anymore. When I make bladed jigs for myself I never put the stick on eyes on the bait. Just not something I'm concerned about.