June Bug - The Color

[Darth-Baiter]

I ordered some plastic from Zoom in June-bug.  what an interesting color!!  I can't wait to try it on some of our California Bass.  I think it would be a good dirty water color.  the water I typically see in Clearlake, at Springtime.  I got the 6" lizard!!  I killed them in Green pumpkin last year.  

 

in Texas, we had a bug called the June Bug because they showed up in June.  the insect was NOT purple.  it was a rusty, brown color.

 

 

[Msl819]

June Bug is one of my most go to colors.  Not sure if it catches more fish but the purple catches my attention!  

[Big Rick]

That picture looks like a corn bug. 

 

If you really want a great looking color Zoom does a limited run every year of Junebug with the candy sparkles and call it Candybug. It's a great color that I have a lot of confidence in. However, it is hard to find at times. When I do find it I load up. 

[LCG]

Junebug is a huge confidence color for me. Works really well everywhere I have fished, from dirty to clean water.

[Bird]

Junebug also does very well in clear water around here.

Really like Zman wormZ in Junebug.....Neko rigged in the spring. 

[DitchPanda]

My favorite soft plastic color overall is green pumpkin..junebug is 2nd and much more productive color for me than black and blue.

[J._Bricker]

1 hour ago, Darth-Baiter said:

I ordered some plastic from Zoom in June-bug.  what an interesting color!!  I can't wait to try it on some of our California Bass.  I think it would be a good dirty water color.  the water I typically see in Clearlake, at Springtime.  I got the 6" lizard!!  I killed them in Green pumpkin last year.  

 

in Texas, we had a bug called the June Bug because they showed up in June.  the insect was NOT purple.  it was a rusty, brown color.

 

 

I hope those Zoom baits in Junebug aren’t brush hogs, ‘cause they don’t work in the Delta ?. And in Cali we call ‘em June bugs as well. At least I do when those corn nut size little bugs are bouncing off the facade of my house on those warm summer evenings…

[steve-pierce]

Those are June bugs in KY also

[Log Catcher]

I use Baby Brush Hogs, various Worms, and Super Hogs in June bug and have very good luck with them. This color works well in stained to murky water.

[GRiver]

Who come with theses name anyway? I mean some of them are unique to say the lease. I was looking at tubes the other and one was called “puke”. 
Actually it looked like something I would use, green and blue mix… close to okeechobe. ( another weird name … but it works. 

[jbrew73]

Our junebugs are green

[PressuredFishing]

Lizards and spring... is like peanut butter and jelly.

1 hour ago, GRiver said:

Who come with theses name anyway? I mean some of them are unique to say the lease. I was looking at tubes the other and one was called “puke”. 
Actually it looked like something I would use, green and blue mix… close to okeechobe. ( another weird name … but it works. 

This ^^^^, don't get me started in roboworms as a colorblind person... i just want a green or baitfish worm...? I could care less about Aaron and his magic or how he drinks tequila at sunrise!

[papajoe222]

I have to laugh at myself for using a junebug trailer on a black/blue jig thinking it was blue (I'm partially color blind). Did that for quite a while before the wife pointed out it was purple. Worked then and works now, both in combination with greens and blues and by itself, so I really don't care that it's purple.

[ATA]

This is green junebug, Ive seen them this color in SoCal

[scaleface]

Black grape has always been my favorite soft plastic color to use . The popularity of June bug doesnt surprise me at all . 

[Bankbeater]

Junebug works for me all through the year, in different water clarity.  One of my confidence colors. 

[Team9nine]

If I was stuck with only one color soft plastic to use for the rest of my life, Junebug is what I would live and die with  

[Catt]

Cinnamon Pepper Neon Junebug Laminate (Camouflage) is one of my goto colors.

[king fisher]

4 minutes ago, Catt said:

Cinnamon Pepper Neon Junebug Laminate (Camouflage) is one of my goto colors.

Or purple for short?

[Mobasser]

I consider junebug a must have color.

[rtwvumtneer6]

We call that a June Bug in Western PA.  Turn a light on at night and listen to them ping off your windows.  

 

Anyway, kind of reminds me of Zoom Motor Oil, which has also caught a few fish. 

 

I carry some June Bug baits, but prefer black with a purple flake ?

[WRB]

8 hours ago, ATA said:

This is green junebug, Ive seen them this color in SoCal

We have over 300 “June Bug”  varieties including the green chrome above and amber colored. 

June bug soft plastics I believe started in Florida, dark grape w/green flakes.

Tom

[Catt]

2 hours ago, WRB said:

June bug soft plastics I believe started in Florida, dark grape w/green flakes.

Tom

 

According to Larry Nixon Junebug started with Tom Mann's Black Grape color purple with green flake. He didn't mention the state of origin or company, possible Gator tail.

[Team9nine]

3 hours ago, WRB said:

We have over 300 “June Bug”  varieties including the green chrome above and amber colored. 

June bug soft plastics I believe started in Florida, dark grape w/green flakes.

Tom

 

1 hour ago, Catt said:

 

According to Larry Nixon Junebug started with Tom Mann's Black Grape color purple with green flake. He didn't mention the state of origin or company, possible Gator tail.

 

Agreed  Junebug originated with the original black-grape worm color to which green flakes were added.  I researched a bit last night and was able to track down mentions of it as far back as 1986. It's probably a bit older than that, and if I had to guess based on those references I found, Florida would be my first guess of origin, also, likely Culprit or Ditto, but not for certain. Only other guess would be Ed Chambers and Zoom, which was same basic area (Georgia).

[tander]

Wish Yamamoto  Senkos came in true Junebug. Maybe the new owners will change it. Junebug is my most used plastic bait color.