Best conditions for white colors?

[TriStateBassin106]

Title really says it all, I want to gain confidence in white my spinners and chatterbaits I have laying around that I don't use, also my lakes don't have shad. 

 

When should I throw white baits? Overcast? In Muddy water? During spawn? 

[TnRiver46]

I throw them all the time, any conditions. A white grub is unbelievably effective.

[Mike L]

I’ll throw a white moving bait as part of  my rotation to zero in on a pattern regardless of conditions. 
I have no hard and fast rules. 

If there’s no shad I let the water clarity and color determine what to start with and add white as one of my last choices.
If there is shad, I always start with white/chartreuse. 
 

Also, for sight fishing on beds white is my color of choice.  
 

 

 

Mike

[jbsoonerfan]

For me, I like white moving baits (lipless, spinnerbait, chatterbait, etc) in relatively clear water and sun. The dirtier the water and the darker the sky gets, the darker I go with my baits.

 

I only throw white soft plastics when I am bed fishing, and that is only so I can see it. LOL

[TnRiver46]

6 minutes ago, jbsoonerfan said:

For me, I like white moving baits (lipless, spinnerbait, chatterbait, etc) in relatively clear water and sun. The dirtier the water and the darker the sky gets, the darker I go with my baits.

 

I only throw white soft plastics when I am bed fishing, and that is only so I can see it. LOL

 No white fluke? 

[Jig Man]

White spinnerbait... clear water, dirty water, clear sky, cloudy sky, day, night are the good times to use it.

 

Other white baits...anytime you use an Arig.

[jbsoonerfan]

2 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

 No white fluke? 

I haven't thrown one in a cool minute. I used to do really good taking a pearl color and dipping the tail in some chart spike-it. Might have to give that a shot again this year.

[DitchPanda]

White is a fantastic color for me for certain baits. Spinnerbaits I prefer white or a shad pattern...swim jigs and bladed jigs I prefer bluegill colors. Flukes I prefer white or shads over gill colors. As mentioned above a white twister tail is one of the fish catchingest things you could ever throw. Also a bone (kind of a yellowish off white) jerk bait or popper can be extremely effective at times.

[Deleted account]

I thought we weren't doing **** anymore...

[Mobasser]

I've had pretty good luck on white over the years, under various conditions. White spinnerbaits, white plastic grubs, and the white underside of many topwater baits can be good also.

[ec1]

Soinnerbaits and jerkbaits in white all day almost everywhere! 
I like white in stained waters most of the time but I don’t think I have trouble with them even in crystal clear water

[Hammer 4]

I toss a white, or shad pattern spinnerbait all year long and in all types of water conditions. Caught a ton of fish on them.

[scaleface]

Bright colored spinnerbaits work so well during  the pre spawn  that everybody is throwing them . 

[Catt]

When y'all gonna learn, if ya don't tell the bass there are no Shad they won't know.

 

Spinnerbaits I throw white, white/chartreuse, white/chartreuse/blue. I select which one based on how I feel after observing weather, water, & season.

 

Ya I know! It's a gut feeling but I follow gut feeling.

 

White plastic, I do not throw em beds but do however throw them pre-spawn.

 

Especially white lizards & Rage Craws.

 

And of course soft jerkbaits 

[Michigander]

We don't have shad here either, but we have light colored panfish and the bass seem not to mind. As long as it looks like food or something that deserves to die, a bass will probably take a shot at it eventually.

[Spankey]

I guess I’ve always been pretty narrow minded about the color white. Only using it in a spinnerbait, Swimbait, softjerk and grub. The grub pretty much swam in the water column. And pearl pattern Crankbaits. 
 

But Never once thought about trying it in a lizard, bug or rodent type, worm, or crawdad or floating worm. Never gave it a chance. 

[Dens228]

10 hours ago, Catt said:

When y'all gonna learn, if ya don't tell the bass there are no Shad they won't know.

 

Spinnerbaits I throw white, white/chartreuse, white/chartreuse/blue. I select which one based on how I feel after observing weather, water, & season.

 

Ya I know! It's a gut feeling but I follow gut feeling.

 

White plastic, I do not throw em beds but do however throw them pre-spawn.

 

Especially white lizards & Rage Craws.

 

And of course soft jerkbaits 

I was going to say the same thing regarding shad.........I've caught ton's of bass using shad colors in waters with no shad.  More than any other pattern.  I would bet that 90% of my hardbaits are a shad variation.   People give way to much power of deductive reasoning to a fish. 

[Bankc]

White is probably the most versatile color.  It might not be the best color in any given situation, but it's almost certainly never going to be the worst.  

[J Francho]

When the water is wet.

[detroit1]

4" white/blk. pepper Chompers worm is my favorite d/s worm. Same color on a bitsy tube was my go to years ago.

[plawren53202]

The juvenile bluegill in my neck of the woods are so washed out in color during the colder months that I would tend to call that "white." I think the motion of something resembling a baby bluegill combined with white color would work on non-shad waters. Agree with the others that when trying to lock in the preferred color for the day I might try white under nearly any conditions.

[WRB]

My most productive crank baits were original Super Cedar 300 white ghost and Bomber 7A custom painted white ghost. White works in all lighting conditions from night to bright noon overhead sun.

White jigs, chatter and spinnerbaits with white trailers, structure spoons with white feathers, white surface lures,  just about everything; pearl white, bone white, translucent white, lots of shades of white.

Tom

[gim]

My brother always started with something in white when he fished with me. 100% of the time. White frog, spinnerbait, chatterbait, stick bait, tube, topwater, or crank bait. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t. He usually kept throwing “whitey” even after I started catching fish on something else too.

 

I admit that I have a number of lures in white. They work. I prefer that color when the water is a little murkier and a more natural color in clear water conditions. I bought a vision 110 jerk bait in French pearl OB and I look forward to using it this spring.

[Delaware Valley Tackle]

Shallow and relatively clear water. Lower the light , darker the color. 

[WRB]

I caught a 34 lb 5 bass limit on Casitas at night during a tournament using the white ghost Super Cedar...no rattles. Sometimes conventional wisdom isn’t passed onto the bass.

Tom