Colors for drop-shotting and Ned rigs in deeper stained water

[wasabi_VA]

A pond I fish often is stained. Should I fish darker or lighter colored plastics when fishing 10 to 15' deep? I'm thinking there is so little light down there that a darker is best for the contrast?

 

 

[Boomstick]

I'm not sure there is exactly a right answer here, but it seems like you have the general right idea. I would try both and see if one works better. One advantage I could see using a brighter color like chartreuse is that even though it's 15' deep, you may get a number of bass to hit it on the fall.

[TnRiver46]

Purple. Always purple! 

[00bullitt]

58 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Purple. Always purple! 

I do agree....JuneBug type colors are my preferred for off colored water. I also prefer the heavily scented Berkley MaxScent Flat Worm in their smoke/purple for more off colored water. That MaxScent makes the bite so obvious and Im convinced it draws fish in and they hold on longer.

[roadwarrior]

I have had some luck with the Flat Worm recently.  6 1/2 lbs a couple of weeks ago!

 

[Jigfishn10]

Without actually seeing what "stained" is in your body of water, I'd start with white or black. They both seem to show up in any color water. Purples and blues work well especially in darker environments. If the stain is a greenish color then green is the ticket. From there, take a set of dice and roll. If snake eyes its red, 1-2 is yellow .... ?

 

[Bluebasser86]

Pick a dark color. It's not likely to matter in stained color at that depth. I'd probably go something 2 tone for some contrast to help them pick it out a little bit (black and blue, PB&J).

[Bankc]

Let the fish tell you what they want.  I usually start off with black and blue.  Junebug is my favorite, though purples work well too.  Anything that's really dark.  If it's really sunny out, or the water isn't too muddy, then I might start off with white are chartreuse.  But if the water is stained to less than 2 feet of visibility, I'm pretty much sticking to these colors.  I'll usually just try one light color and one dark color.  If they don't bite either of those colors, I'll try something else entirely.  The only times I'll switch from something like Junebug to black and blue, or white to chartreuse, is if I'm getting some, but not a lot of action on one color.  

[Munkin]

My drop shot worms are 4 colors; smoke, GP, white, and black. These cover all my bases for the areas I fish.

 

Allen

[GTN-NY]

1 hour ago, Munkin said:

My drop shot worms are 4 colors; smoke, GP, white, and black. These cover all my bases for the areas I fish.

 

Allen

GP?

[MN Fisher]

14 minutes ago, GTN said:

GP?

Green Pumpkin

[Munkin]

5 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

Green Pumpkin

Yes