What colors are your go-to's for plastics?

[Tatsu Dave]

Don't matter what you use in plastics, what are your five favorite colors you have confidence and sucess with. I started with basic blk/blue, pumpkin, watermelon, and junebug years back. As I fished I found other colors that seemed to out produce the stand-by's. Still use some but have some others that seem to be more what the fish want, in the eighty's everything was chartreuse and pearl but hardly ever use them now. Maybe we change and not the fish I suppose  Here's the five I always have on deck when I go out......

Rainbow Trout (that pink belly is magic)

Junebug (never stopped with this color from way back)

Watermelon Gold Flake (better than the red flake for me)

Crime Scene (this one always seems to work)

Trophy Hunter (this one is a Grandebass color/combo of GP and Junebug DEADLY)

 

Honorable Mention

Okeechobee Craw (variation of blk/blue and tan)

309 (new XZone color)

 

I knew I wouldn't be able to stop at five  

 

 

[Bluebasser86]

Green pumpkin

black and blue

sapphire blue

Junebug

watermelon red

 

Red bug and Plum apple would get my honorable mentions.

[Tatsu Dave]

Just tried a bag of Plum/Apple ribbontail worms the other day, got to say they did catch bass pretty steady. That color really looks good coming thru the water.

[Mike L]

Junebug 

Watermelon red
Red Shad

Green pumpkin 

 

 

Mike

[Dens228]

Black/blue flake

Watermelon/red flake

Sungill

[Jig Man]

Green pumpkin/black flake

Green pumpkin/red flake

Watermelon/red flake

Black

Pumpkin seed

[MIbassyaker]

Anything with the words "Pumpkin" or "watermelon" in the name.

Anything with green flakes.

Anything countershaded (darker on top, lighter on bottom)

 

My favorite color is a light pumpkin or amber with green flakes, which is hard to find a good version of. Some of the better examples I know of:

-the Berkley chigger craw comes in "Pumpkin Green"

-Big Bite Baits has several baits in "pumpkin pepper green"

-Strike king has "amber green" and "amistad special" in a few of the Rage and KVD perfect plastics series

-Strike King also used to make the elaztech 3x finesse worm in "pumpkin green", but discontinued (however, I stocked up and it is elaztech, so I'll never run out)

 

On the other hand, Zoom has "rootbeer pepper green" which is close, but a little too opaque orange for my taste. And GYCB has "pumpkin black & green flake" which is too reddish.

 

 

[scaleface]

Purple

blue

black char

 

 

[DaubsNU1]

Blue fleck

Pumpkin

Watermelon

Black

 

(I'm pretty standard and lame...I do love the rainbow trout colored Slug-go...been a constant producer for many years!)

[plawren53202]

Any combination of green pumpkin/light blue (Moon Juice, Yum's "Bream", some Okeechobee Craw variations)

Junebug

Black/blue

Green pumpkin/black flake

Purple variations (morning dawn/tequila sunrise)

[Talio]

Depends on what I see what I'm on the water.  If I think there are shad, I throw white.  If I think there are bluegill, I'll throw something green.  However, my new favorite is green pumpkin with blue flake.  We have a lot of pumpkin seeds around here, and I feel like that color works really well for that presentation.  Almost all my worms are black if I can help it or the closest color to black I can get, just because I think it stands out.  Hot Pink is my preferred weightless trick worm color for when I'm dancing on the surface or over weed beds.  For jigs, I like a brownish colored skirt with a black trailer, but I'll also do black skirt with green pumpkin because black crawl trailers can be rare.  I don't do a lot of chartreuse though.  I feel like everyone is throwing chartreuse baits, so I avoid it.

[Bird]

And the theme continues. 

 

Pumpkin 

Watermelon red 

Junebug 

Black/blue 

Cotton candy chartreuse 

 

I actually do pretty well with chartreuse tail in clear water, not sure why. Lol 

[Tatsu Dave]

1 hour ago, DaubsNU1 said:

I'm pretty standard and lame...I do love the rainbow trout colored Slug-go...been a constant producer for many years

Thats where I first discovered the color myself, up here the small brookies are a desired forage fish most places I fish. When I discovered stickbaits I went looking for that  Slug-go color and found GY senko's and yum dinger's, Funny sometimes they want the dead stick fall like dinger's and most of the time they want that senko wiggle more. Pickerel and bass both tear em' up so I keep at least 50 or more all the time in the box. Rainbow Trout and Junebug have accounted for all the big heavyweights over the last four years.....way I see it big smart largemouth should be listened to  

[Steelhead]

Green Pumpkin

Watermelon Seed

Green Pumpkin Orange

Black

Smoke Pepper

 

Some of the more specific/special colors include Zoom's Cucumber Seed, Zman's Purple Death, Kalin's Clear Hologram and Xzone's Perch. 

[Tatsu Dave]

1 hour ago, MIbassyaker said:

My favorite color is a light pumpkin or amber with green flakes, which is hard to find a good version of. Some of the better examples I know of:

-the Berkley chigger craw comes in "Pumpkin Green"

-Big Bite Baits has several baits in "pumpkin pepper green"

-Strike king has "amber green" and "amistad special" in a few of the Rage and KVD perfect plastics series

-Strike King also used to make the elaztech 3x finesse worm in "pumpkin green", but discontinued (however, I stocked up and it is elaztech, so I'll never run out)

Sounds close to Watermelon candy or half of crime scene without the darker laminated back. I think its the green flakes that make crime scene work so well for me. My son thinks it looks like pumpkin pepper green which he likes a lot.

[Chonch12]

everyone pretty much covered mine so Ill throw out 3 I enjoy I did not see on the list

 

Falcon Lake - Strike King

Chart Shad - Zako for White Chatter has been money all year

Morning Dawn - Roboworm (think this is universal as well)

[Bankc]

Black/Blue

Junebug

Chartreuse Pepper

 

I've wasted a lot of money on Green Pumpkin, but the waters around here are just too dirty for them to be of much use.  

[TriStateBassin106]

Black n blue = Dirty water all weather conditions/stained water on cloudy days 

Green Pumpkin = Stained water on sunny days/Clearer water cloudy days

Watermelon Red flake = Clearer water sunny days, the Yamamoto Watermelon Red senko that shade is really good for stained or slighty dirty water 

 

IMO I hate white soft plastics, I've never caught anything on them. 

 

Also I'm not really sold on the different flakes. If I can't catch anything on something with green or purple flake it's probably the fish just not being generally inteterested in anything. 

 

I've had days where I've caught fish on both Straight black worms and also worms with blue flecks added to em. 

 

 

[roadwarrior]

Your favorite color will work just fine.

 

[J Francho]

What if your favorite color is pink?

 

[roadwarrior]

A few years ago, maybe on your recommendation, I found some pink Fat Ika.

Still unopened and I assume, fresh.  When smallmouth fishing ramps up on the

Tennessee River in a couple of weeks, this will be the lure used for the first cast.

 

 

 

[J Francho]

Fish are really dumb for pink.  Almost any species bites it.

[Bankbeater]

Black / Blue

Grape

Watermelon

Green Pumpkin

Chartreuse Pumpkin

 

I think that’s about it for this year. 

[BlakeMolone]

I absolutely love electric Shad for paddletails

[Log Catcher]

Black Emerald

Junebug

Sprayed Grass

Smoke Purple Red

Watermelon Seed