Creature Baits - Color Position?

[Bartableman7]

What do you all do?.... Creature bait is double colored.  Black and blue:  Which side up?  Dark and light...dark side always up?  Thoughts and ideas...

[river-rat]

I always rig the dark side up. 

[J Francho]

Probably yes

 

Seriously, this just a personal taste thing.  I put the hook through the side that is lighter, or has the hook groove.

[Team9nine]

Don't screw this one up or you'll never get a bite 

[Tennessee Boy]

I always go dark side up if I'm fishing in the northern hemisphere.  

[Bankbeater]

It depends which side is more torn up.

[Skunkmaster-k]

I usually fish them with the accent down , but I have been known to shake it up a bit. 

[TOXIC]

If you match the hatch, most water bait species have lighter bellies and darker topsides.  Shad and craws for example.  I try to rig it with that in mind and even carry it over to laminate Senkos.  

[GaryH]

Dark side up. That’s usually natural in nature. Looking down the dark blends into the bottom and looking up the lighter blends into the sky. Just like Mother Nature intended for defense and also for predators.

 

[J Francho]

Does everyone think a Texas rig always lands hook side down? 

[WRB]

I always had the darker side up until using hand pours with flat belly’s. The hand pour guys always poured the darker colors into the round bottom of the mold with lighter colors for flat belly side. 

I would tear up the “standard” rigging the hook up thru the flat bottom out the round top. So would reverse the hook into fresh soft plastic with the belly up to save worms etc. 

The swimming action with the round side down flat side up worked better and caught more bass. 

Regardless of the color I prefer flat side up round side down.

Just the opposite of how I learned to rig decades ago.

Looks strange but swims better creating more strikes from bass and that is the goal.

Tom

[Finessegenics]

I don’t think it really matters. But I go dark side up because it looks best to my eyes. Not sure about the bass though 

[ajschn06]

23 hours ago, Bartableman7 said:

What do you all do?.... Creature bait is double colored.  Black and blue:  Which side up?  Dark and light...dark side always up?  Thoughts and ideas...

 

They'll work either way, but they are designed to be lighter side down....

[Munkin]

20 hours ago, GaryH said:

Dark side up. That’s usually natural in nature. Looking down the dark blends into the bottom and looking up the lighter blends into the sky. Just like Mother Nature intended for defense and also for predators.

 

 

X2

 

Allen

[MIbassyaker]

On 9/22/2021 at 8:47 PM, GaryH said:

Dark side up. That’s usually natural in nature. Looking down the dark blends into the bottom and looking up the lighter blends into the sky. Just like Mother Nature intended for defense and also for predators.

 

 

Yup. Countershading.

[RealtreeByGod]

That is something I've never thought of. Countershading in nature exists to camouflage against predators looking that aren't on the same plane, but aren't there alot of situations where you'd want contrast more than anything and therefore would rather have dark on bottom?