Green pumpkin vs watermelon

[Mr. Aquarium]

Which one do you prefer? Notice a difference between them? 

[00bullitt]

Splittin hairs! Pick one...cant say it matters a whole bunch to the fish.

 

Rule of thumb...more  than 5' visibility in clear water, run with Watermelon.

 

With that said.....if I could only have one color, it would be green pumpkin or black.

[Team9nine]

Green pumpkin - hands down. Won't even buy watermelon anymore...but most all of my waters are stained to some degree, and it just seems like GP does better. I've got a couple watermelon colored baits, and I'll toss them from time to time, but I really think they do better in more transparent (clear) environments. Might just be in my head - who knows. Whatever gives you confidence...and that isn't watermelon for me 

[Munkin]

GP most of the time but watermelon for really clear water.

 

Allen

[heavyduty]

Another vote for GP. In my circle of fishing buddies no one ever talks of throwing watermelon. Now that could mean two things; they don't throw it or it's their secret color.... fishermen... go figure

[Log Catcher]

Read an article years ago about this. It said to use green pumpkin on cloudy days and use watermelon seed on days with sunshine. This is with decent visibility in the water. Green pumpkin would be better in waters with more stain in it.

[Mr. Aquarium]

Wow never heard of the difference between them. Like Gp for stained and watermelon for clear

[Finessegenics]

I believe they're similar enough that one or the other won't make a difference for you. Green pumpkin just seems a little darker. So I feel like GP would stand out better in muddier water but it still looks natural enough that it would not look odd in clear water. All that means it can be more versatile than watermelon.

 

Keep in mind that colors can be different across brands...some green pumpkins are basically brown. Some watermelons are kind of transparent, while others are opaque. I treat them as the same but if I had to choose one it would be GP. 

[optimator]

I caught my PB on a watermelon Senko. Guess what my preference is...

[throttleplate]

watermellon copper with orange-red underbelly my go-to in clear water. Just bought on sale for $1.74 a pack of gp berkley 8 inch kingtails and will test them out this May when bass season opens.

[TriStateBassin106]

1 hour ago, Team9nine said:

Green pumpkin - hands down. Won't even buy watermelon anymore...but most all of my waters are stained to some degree, and it just seems like GP does better. I've got a couple watermelon colored baits, and I'll toss them from time to time, but I really think they do better in more transparent (clear) environments. Might just be in my head - who knows. Whatever gives you confidence...and that isn't watermelon for me 

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[LCG]

It's funny never was able to catch anything of a green pumkin senko. One of my go to confidence bait is now a watermelon red BPS stick-o. Fish stained water mostly, some clear. 

[Mbirdsley]

I fish one lake that watermelon absolutely kills on and that’s about it. That lake is clear but not super gin clear the lake has a lot of vegiatation too.   Green pumpkin seems to work better in really gin clear water with either a hard sandy or rocky substrate.  Last year summer craw and blue black flake was top producers in anything plastic 

[MIbassyaker]

I fish with both effectively, but with Watermelon I like some colored flake, like red or "candy" (green and violet). Green Pumpkin I like plain, or with Candy or "Magic" flake. 

 

Any rhyme or reason behind these preferences? Probably not. I just like they way they look in the water.

 

You know what my best color is, though? Not Green pumpkin, but Pumpkin with Green flake:

 

I just wish more companies made a version of it.

[Team9nine]

4 minutes ago, MIbassyaker said:

You know what my best color is, though? Not Green pumpkin, but Pumpkin with Green flake:

 

I just wish more companies made a version of it.

 

Rootbeer pepper green - one of my top 2 or 3 jig trailer colors. Zoom makes a nice version of it in many of their plastics 

[MIbassyaker]

1 minute ago, Team9nine said:

 

Rootbeer pepper green - one of my top 2 or 3 jig trailer colors. Zoom makes a nice version of it in many of their plastics 

 

Berkely is Pumpkin Green flake, Big Bite baits is "Pumpkin-Green Pepper", Mr. Twister is "Pumpkin Pepper Green".  Similar to Zoom, GYCB calls it "Rootbeer Black and Green", although they also have  "pumpkin black and green" that is too red for my taste. 

 

Kalins and Chompers have a good version too, but forget what its called.  Strike King Perfect Plastics has something similar in "Amistad Special", but you can only get it the Ocho and Game Hawg. In Rage Tail there's "Amber Green" which seems basically the same, but I've only seen it for the rage craw.

[papajoe222]

Everyone in my club swears by green pumpkin. I prefer purple, or watermelon. A plum worm with the tail dipped in red dye has been my go to color there for years.

[WRB]

Who can identify or define green pumpkin? Every sift plastic supplier differs. Watermelon however wasn’t as wide spread.

Watermelon red flake was a hot color for Yamamoto and still is. 

We went through the green weenie phase in the 80’s. Light green weenie, green weenie, dark green weenie, green weenie /black and red flake, green weenie/ green flake, green weenie w/ blue flake etc, etc. How does green pumpkin differ from green weenie? Green pumpkin doesn’t have cinnamon  belly, otherwise it’s watermelon.

Green weenie, watermelon and green pumpkin all catch bass if you use it.

Tom

[DitchPanda]

Agree with @WRB its hard to define green pumpkin. Lets take a few popular bait:pit boss-green with almost lime hints....D-bomb-plain old forest green almost...zoom trick worm-pretty much brown.

[Bankbeater]

I use both colors in the same water.  I don't think there is much of a difference between the two colors.

[Bluebasser86]

Green pumpkin in more stained water or cloudy days. Watermelon in more clear water or sunny days.

 

I prefer green pumpkin of the 2.

[MIbassyaker]

I understand "Green Pumpkin" to be a form of "pumpkin" that has some green in it. Thus, it is actually a sort of "greenish-brown".  Watermelon, on the other hand seems to be just a muted, translucent green.

 

While different companies colors vary, there are at least two generalizations present in most versions of these colors:

-Green pumpkin is distinctly brownish whereas watermelon is not.

-Watermelon is more translucent than green pumpkin.

 

However, it's usually only possible to notice these distinctions when you have a side-by-side comparison.

[Munkin]

No one has mentioned Japanese green pumpkin. 

 

Allen 

[Spankey]

The only reason I fish watermelon in clearer water is because that’s the rumor to fish it in clearer water. I never go into a study about it. I find myself throwing GP way more often.  
 

But in my experience Green pumpkin is not the end all or do all of soft plastics. A few others top that in my situation. A great productive color it is. 

[NoShoes]

I think it’s easy to get paralysis by analysis with colors. I find green pumpkin, June bug, and black covers me. 
 

I also don’t put out 20 lb bags either though...