Blue Saphire

[Heron]

Ok gents, help me out with this

 

I’ve always turned away from the blue sapphire colored baits, and any other blue color.  For no other reason that it just never made sense to me, and I have absolutely no concept of when I would use it, except for maybe low visibility. 

 

is the blue sapphire a color that the fish truly go for?  Is this color a real thing, or just meant for catching us rod swingers?

 

thx

[roadwarrior]

Good color around here.  

[DitchPanda]

@Bluebasser86 shall be along shortly....

[Bluebasser86]

I could provide a few pages of pictures of fish with blue baits hanging out of their mouths, plastics, jigs, and bladed jigs. 

 

Low light conditions are for sure a good time for it, but it's a great color during the daylight hours as well. For me personally, the best times are when the water gets warm, and especially when it gets a green tint to it from algae blooms we often see in the summer months. Lakes with lots of grass seem to be good "blue", lakes also.

[OkobojiEagle]

Crayfish around my lakes develop bright blue claws and markings during part of the season.

 

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[Catt]

3 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Low light conditions are for sure a good time for it, but it's a great color during the daylight hours as well.

 

When I throw a black-n-blue jig the trailer will be sapphire blue!

 

Sapphire blue lizard is deadly during pre-spawn/spawn.

 

Lot of anglers throw white when bed fishing, I throw sapphire blue.

 

Shhhhh! ?

 

 

[BayouSlide]

Sapphire blue is my go-to in worms, creatures, etc. Confidence bait. ??

[Mobasser]

Next to purple/grape colors, blue is one of my favorites. I've used sapphire blue, electric blue, and standard blue colors for years. All have worked well.

[Spy]

Blues work well in my tannic, coastal water and a blue saphire trailer adds a subtle flash when desired.  

[BrianMDTX]

I’ve done well with electric blue Senkos. And blue/black jigs seem to be extremely common. 

[papajoe222]

I've been a proponent of purple plastics for decades and I have absolutely no idea why they produce so well. All I can offer is: you won't know until you try.

[Jigfishn10]

Pink is an awesome color, why not blue?  

Besides:

Starting from the top and going clockwise:

1. Blue as we see it out of water.

2. Blue in blue water.

3. Blue in green water.

4. Blue in brown/red water.

 

It's a color that just shows up.

[Catt]

It has been said the blue can be seen deeper than any color.

[WRB]

Blue neon has been a accent color in California for decades, still is.

The first blue worm I used was Tom Mann’s Blueberry Jelly worms in the late 60’s my go too color worm back in the day.

Brown/blue vinyl skirt jig w/blue pork trailer was a “secrete” combo out west during the 70’s. 

Chrome blue back crankbaits have always produced good results.

Blue Sapphire and Mann’s blueberry soft plastic look the same to me. Blue neon is similar translucent shade of blue  but it reflects light like micro flakes  or live shad.

Tom 

[river-rat]

 

I also use a sapphire blue trailer on a black and blue jig. And a sapphire blue UV Speed Craw, Baby Brush Hog, and Rage Bug are consistent producers in the Atchafalaya Basin.

 

I don't know that there are any particular "conditions" that sapphire blue works best in. I just know this color works. 

 

 

[NorthernBasser]

Blue or black/blue is a staple for me, all year round. Especially jigs.

 

And we all know how well red colors work in the spring, but I especially do well early in the season with a jig paired with a blue Zoom Salty Chunk. 

 

[Spankey]

I’m sort of with you on the blue color. I don’t use it when it comes to soft plastics. Not a solid  blue worm or creature. 
 

Blue crankbaits, different story. Seem to be a working color for me in the fall. I assume it is because water is cleared. I am fishing them slightly deeper in the fall but not extremely deeper.

 

I don’t fish them through the summer. They don’t produce during that time. 

[Heron]

Well thank you everyone for the input.

 

i went out and bought some blue items to try on my jigs.

 

we’ll see how it goes

[king fisher]

Many people use black and blue jigs, soft plastics, and chaterbaits.  For some reason most people think spinnerbaits have to be white.  Try a black and blue spinnerbait sometime.  You may be surprised.

[J.Bass]

On 2/19/2022 at 8:21 AM, Heron said:

Ok gents, help me out with this

 

I’ve always turned away from the blue sapphire colored baits, and any other blue color.  For no other reason that it just never made sense to me, and I have absolutely no concept of when I would use it, except for maybe low visibility. 

 

is the blue sapphire a color that the fish truly go for?  Is this color a real thing, or just meant for catching us rod swingers?

 

thx

If you aren't using blue as @Bluebasser86 would say you arent using your whole arsenal. We have power lakes by me especially Lasalle Lake. The bass range from hybrid stripers, white bass, smallmouth, and largemouth bass. I use religiously black and chrome or blue and chrome Rat-L-trap 1/2 ounce. Ive caught monster largemouth out there and had a hybrid stripers pull almost all my line out. It surfaced and when I went to turn it around it shook the blue and chrome Rat-L-trap out of its mouth. I even had smallmouth hammer the blue and chrome color. Its very effective color as the blue can mimic certain minnows.

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On 2/19/2022 at 8:10 PM, Catt said:

It has been said the blue can be seen deeper than any color.

Newton just rolled over a tad..

[Dogface]

On 2/20/2022 at 2:02 PM, WRB said:

The first blue worm I used was Tom Mann’s Blueberry Jelly worms in the late 60’s my go too color worm back in the day.

 

Tom 

 

Around the late 50's and early 60's I helped out at a sporting good store. One day the owner, Phil, handed me some blue rubber worms and asked me to try them.  He said they were supposed to work. I thought "blue". Are they crazy?

 

A few days later my friends and I were swimming in a local creek. I decided to try the blue worm and let Phil know how I did. I swam across the creek to a hole I knew held bass and sunfish. I climbed out on the limb of a tree that had fallen into the creek. The limb was over the water. I rigged up my worm and was getting my gear together. The worm was dangling below me a few inches over the water. I heard a big splash below me and thought my friends were throwing rocks at me. Then there is another splash but none of my friends are even looking in my direction. I look down to see a bass jump out of the water and try to get my blue worm. I lowered the worm to the surface and caught my first bass on a rubber worm.....a blue rubber worm!

 

So it began. ?