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So I see this name that I've not really noticed before and I'm intrigued. Problem is I can't really tell what color it is exactly cuz online pics rarely do colors justice and I haven't seen it locally. Is this a productive color? What color is it actually?

  • Super User
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Scuppernong is a species of grape.  They can grow to a reddish brown color.  There are crawfish that take on that color.  I tried it in a Power Team crawfish soft bait.  It hasn’t shown to be anything special so far.

  • Global Moderator
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It's a solid, but not particularly spectacular color for me. Kind of a reddish/brownish color. I have confidence in it, but I'd rather fish plain green pumpkin or other colors instead.

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I have it in some Zoom worms.  To me it’s like a dark coffee color.  I had a friend that would kill it with this color.

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  • Super User
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I think the color got its start in the Harry and Charlie cartoons published in Bassmaster . Their favorite lure was was a 12 inch  scuppernong jelly worm .  I bought some 6 inch jelly worms in that color but they are to stiff and hard to use . I never had jelly worms like that before . 

  • Super User
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I always have some Reins Swampmovers in scuppernong with me.  This color, to me, is like nightcrawlers or earthworms....so, fairly natural

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  • Global Moderator
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I would tell you about scuppernong, but then I’d have to kill you 

  • Super User
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Soft baits by Zoom have been around in that pattern since the early ‘80s. Worth having a pack or two of that in a Brush Hogs. Decent working natural type color. 

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Thats like the color Methyolate. Pics dont seem to do it justice. It looks like a bright red to me. 

  • Super User
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1 hour ago, Luke Barnes said:

Thats like the color Methyolate. Pics dont seem to do it justice. It looks like a bright red to me. 

Merthiolate is southern for pink. :P

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1 minute ago, J Francho said:

Merthiolate is southern for pink. :P

Ahhh. I first heard of it watching Fluke Master. I had to rewind it and listen again. I was like what did he just say???

  • Super User
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Never been a fan of scuppernong. Reminds me a lot of motor oil in that I was never a fan of that color either. Believe Tom Mann of Mann's Bait (Jelly Worm) gets the credit for first coming out with the color in his worm lineup. I can track it back to him to at least 1974.

 

Merthiolate - you need to be "older" to remember that, along with Mercurochrome. If you had either put on a scrape or cut as a kid back in the 60s or 70s, then you know where the color name came from and why :thumbsup:

  • Super User
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21 minutes ago, Luke Barnes said:

Ahhh. I first heard of it watching Fluke Master. I had to rewind it and listen again. I was like what did he just say???

Dip your craw tips in Merthiolate JJ's Magic ;)

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1 hour ago, Team9nine said:

Never been a fan of scuppernong. Reminds me a lot of motor oil in that I was never a fan of that color either. Believe Tom Mann of Mann's Bait (Jelly Worm) gets the credit for first coming out with the color in his worm lineup. I can track it back to him to at least 1974.

 

Merthiolate - you need to be "older" to remember that, along with Mercurochrome. If you had either put on a scrape or cut as a kid back in the 60s or 70s, then you know where the color name came from and why :thumbsup:

My mom and older cousins told me about Mercurochrome but to me it sounds radioactive! 

1 hour ago, J Francho said:

Dip your craw tips in Merthiolate JJ's Magic ;)

I like where you are going with this!! I was just thinking today I need some red dip dye! 

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  • Super User
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I am sure Harry & Carlie used Scuppernong because it’s sounds good. Tom Mann used berry colors to identify his product, smart man. When motor oil became popular he may have used Scuppernong but it was brownish in lieu of greenish red. Other then Harry & Carlie the color never became as popular as motor oil now superseded by green pumpkin.

Tom 

  • Super User
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19 minutes ago, WRB said:

I am sure Harry & Carlie used Scuppernong because it’s sounds good.

I think you're onto something!

 

Spoken in an English accent: "I prefer a spot of lemon in my Scuppernong tea!"

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  • Global Moderator
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Scuppernong and motoroil  worms are excellent for bass from here down to the Gulf of Mexico. A lot of folks make scuppernong wine out of the fruit, I always understood it as a champagne colored muscadine, or as we say in TN/NC “musky dimes”

  • Super User
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20 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

champagne

This is the only champagne I know

 

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  • Global Moderator
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6 minutes ago, J Francho said:

This is the only champagne I know

 

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That’s the good stuff. My local watering hole actually sells those “champagne “ bottles of high life around holidays 

  • Super User
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I saw them for the first time this past December.  Almost bought one, but she who must be obeyed vetoed it, since I rarely drink anymore.  I love that the year is on it.

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  • Global Moderator
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11 minutes ago, J Francho said:

I saw them for the first time this past December.  Almost bought one, but she who must be obeyed vetoed it, since I rarely drink anymore.  I love that the year is on it.

I’ve received one the last two or three Christmases  haha

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  • Super User
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4 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I’ve received one the last two or three Christmases  haha

You are loved.

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  • Super User
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1 hour ago, J Francho said:

This is the only champagne I know

 

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This here...this I support!

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