Color that surprised you

[Bankbeater]

Chartreuse pumpkin plastic worm.  The first time I used one I was sure it was going to scare the bass, but it works in clear water.

[Columbia Craw]

Green pumpkin

[BigAngus752]

Another vote for coppertreuse.  It's a weird (and I assume made up) name from Z-Man.  Normally NOTHING bright colored works in any of the lakes I fish but this color is an absolute hammer.  I've tried numerous other colors of the ElaZtech with little result but the coppertruese on a Ned or T-rig is a skunk-buster.  

[WRB]

Back in the 80’s I had a custom hand pour made that was supposed to be light green weenie with a purple blood line.

Pick up the worm and Bryan said this is the ugliest worm he ever poured. I looked it and “what f*** is this?? The worm was pea soup solid green, not translucent, with wine red blood line. Bryan apologized and handed my the 100 bag and said he would make over.

I tossed the bag of ugly worms in my boat and forgot about them. About a year later I was fishing in the rain and found the ugly worms and gave them a try, nothing else was working. I was fish Deep Cat ledge and on my 1st cast hook a 5 lb Rainbow trout on the ugly worm. The hour the bite turned on and several bass between 7 lbs to 9 lbs. there was a tin boat anchored with a man and his son fishing crawdads and hadn’t had bite for hours. The yield over asking what was ai using. So I moved over to the tin boat and offered him some ugly worms and got ticked thinking I was joking with him and turned my offer down. 

I caught bass on that  ugly at several lakes. when I ran out Bryan wouldn’t make them for me, too ugly no one else will buy them and didn’t remember what colors he used to make it up.

Tom

[crypt]

years ago, 20 or so---there was a worm color called Critter that was poured by a local fisherman out of Kissimee that was clear but had 3 colors of glitter in it. was an awesome bait for a while. then he just quit making them. he had 7 and 8 inch curly tails. man I miss them.

[PaulVE64]

Morning dawn.

I caught a fish while rigging up another rod.

[CrashVector]

Green pumpkin magic.

 

I had never had much luck on lures with glitter/metallic flakes in it.

 

People here swear by the watermelon green with red flakes, and I've never done well on it.

 

However, green pumpkin magic colored senkos/stickbaits have done well for me.

[Cgolf]

Kalin's Ron's Craw. This color catches a lot of fish in clear and stained water. Very versatile color that I wish was also available in other bait styles.

 

Motor oil red also catches em in both water types, which was a surprise in clear water but not as much as the above color.

[LrgmouthShad]

Watermelon candy

[JustJames]

Zman The deal or Yamamoto Shad color, is really surprised me here but not in a good way. I used to catch plenty of fish elsewhere with this color, but here doesn’t seem to work quite as well. 

[Jig Man]

1 hour ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Watermelon candy

Me too.  When our Lew’s store closed I bought out their entire stock of Elaztech worms.  There were about a dozen watermelon candy packs that I found when I was sorting them.  I wondered if anything would bite them.  They do.

[LrgmouthShad]

9 minutes ago, Jig Man said:

Me too.  When our Lew’s store closed I bought out their entire stock of Elaztech worms.  There were about a dozen watermelon candy packs that I found when I was sorting them.  I wondered if anything would bite them.  They do.

I think the flake colors imitate bluegill/sunfish well as well as the overall color of the bait. It's a great color along with watermelon red for me. 

[thediscochef]

On 11/15/2021 at 9:40 PM, DitchPanda said:

Pretty simple..is there a soft plastic color that you picked up and didn't have high hopes for that really impressed you? For me its been a mudbug color z man trd. I picked up a pack as an experiment and when I got them I was a little unimpressed. Its basically a dark cinnamon brown back with a light cinnamon pearl belly with copper flake...kinda blah looking honestly. But thankfully the fish don't  agree and they chomp it. What about you?

The same plastic but in White Lightning

Caught me a personal best LMB and several 5-10lbs blue catfish

[Yakalong]

Seems like when I order something online I'm usually a few dollars away from free shipping. So I will buy a color that I normally wouldn't buy. Lime green and white worm has worked well.

[Munkin]

On 11/19/2021 at 10:40 AM, Bass_Fishing_Socal said:

Zman The deal or Yamamoto Shad color, is really surprised me here but not in a good way. I used to catch plenty of fish elsewhere with this color, but here doesn’t seem to work quite as well. 

 

Yamamoto natural shad is the one color I found in the store that I knew would work. 

 

Allen 

[a1712]

Yum Sugar Plum. Was looking for a alternative clear water color stickbait and found the Yum 4" Dinger in Sugar Plum at my local Ollie's. We wore them out on it all summer. Brian.

[king fisher]

I don't have any surprise colors I caught bass on, but I do have one I didn't catch with.

     When I was fourteen, I a read an article where Bill Dance said he fished any color of worm as long as it was blue.  Because Bill Dance was my favorite fisherman, and I believed what ever was printed in a magazine has to be 100% true( Like the internet now), I used what little money I had and bought some blue worms.  After having zero luck with blue for half a summer I decided two things.  1. He must of meant to say purple, and 2. Rolan Martin was my favorite bass pro.

[WRB]

Tom Mann’s BlueBerry 7” Jelly worms was a go to worm for me in the 70’s. Bill Dance was promoting Strike King Diamond Back 6” worms and Blue was his favorite color during that era.

Fishing the Mexican lake Guerrero in the late 60’s Strembridge 9” Flip Tail Red worms was the hot color. Couldn’t catch a cold on the red locally.

Tom  

 

[Aaron_H]

On 11/16/2021 at 7:18 AM, Catt said:

Back in the early 70s my father-in-law at the time went down to Lake Guerrero & returned with several sacks of Fire & Ice worms. Everyone had a hardy laugh until he tied em on.

 

My all time favorite Cinnamon Pepper Neon Junebug Laminate...Camouflage 

 

Fire & Ice is my answer, too. A buddy of mine told me he'd been catching good sized bass in the canal behind his house and invited me to come fish it, and gave me a pack of 7.5" Culprits in that color as his "magic bait."

 

I laughed to myself about how absolutely goofy they looked. And laughed, and laughed....until I caught a 6lb 6oz bass the first time out with it. I still think it looks goofy, and "magic bait" is a hokey belief, but dang if that color didn't surprise me. Thinking on it, though, it really shouldn't be a surprise; red works, blue works, why wouldn't red and blue be effective?

[Munkin]

8 hours ago, king fisher said:

I don't have any surprise colors I caught bass on, but I do have one I didn't catch with.

     When I was fourteen, I a read an article where Bill Dance said he fished any color of worm as long as it was blue.  Because Bill Dance was my favorite fisherman, and I believed what ever was printed in a magazine has to be 100% true( Like the internet now), I used what little money I had and bought some blue worms.  After having zero luck with blue for half a summer I decided two things.  1. He must of meant to say purple, and 2. Rolan Martin was my favorite bass pro.

 

I have one of those as well: Zoom Castic Choice. It is GP over pumpkinseed and when I saw it I thought now here is a winner.  Nope,  caught like 3 bass on that color.  I could catch them on both solid pumpkinseed or GP but switch to Castic choice and nothing. Finally just gave away or melted down the baits I had in that color. 

 

Allen 

[Log Catcher]

I also have one that surprised me the wrong way. Plum. I heard some many things about how good this color is supposed to be I had to try it. I bought a pack of Mag II worms in that color. I caught one bass on that color. When there were only two left in the pack  I threw them away. Watermelon Red is another color people love that doesn't work for me.