"Staple" Colors You Have No Faith In

[RevoSEMIpro]

What are colors/patterns that you have either never had the success you "should" have with them or used to throw and have lost faith for whatever reason?

 

I'll start;

 

Black & Blue - jigs, trailer, plastics, all of it.   Have given it more than the ol' college try.  Never lived up to expectations....even as they dwindled, lol.

 

Bluegill - cranks, swim jigs, bladed baits, everything.  Fishing the upper Mississippi they are obviously a huge forage source.  No dice for me with one exception - Orange Bream colored KVD 1.5 and 2.5's.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[DaubsNU1]

@RevoSEMIpro, the black and blue jig-n-pig works well here in Nebraska. As does any Bluegill colored crank, square bill, jerk-bait, etc. 

 

I can't catch a cold on june-bug colored anything. 

[PaulVE64]

Red

 

[Mike L]

Considering the success that folks have using bright off the wall colors like “merthiolate and bubble gum” I just don’t get it. 
Nothing in the water is hot pink but guys on here use it and apparently are successful with it. 
I just never felt the need to throw a neon anything to get bit. 
 

Equipment/Presentation 
It makes me crazy if any outing has deteriorated to the point that I have to use anything finesse. 

If I knew beforehand that the only way I could catch a fish is by looking down at a screen all day, holding a UL spinning rod with 6# line, jiggling a 3” baby blue plastic all day waiting for a 2# fish to come swimming by, I’d just rather stay in bed 

 

 

 

 

Mike

[Bankbeater]

Different shades of brown just don't seem to work around here.  If I'm wanting to fish with a natural color I'll go with some type of green color.

 

Red is another color.  Once in a while it works, but I have much better luck with orange.

 

[SC53]

Sexy Shad and red color in cranks or jerk baits. 
Pumpkin in worm colors have not been that good for me here in Florida.

[scaleface]

Red

[GRiver]

Red or orange, I’m not a fan of or should I say the fish aren’t.

Those crawdad pattern cranks, I have never caught anything on them, even when I lived in NC. 
@Mike Lwhen I moved here, I was told to use bubblegum, was surprised when it was just hot pink….. but it does work.

1 hour ago, DaubsNU1 said:

I can't catch a cold on june-bug colored anything. 

Junebug is my color here, that and Okeechobee. 

[LrgmouthShad]

They’ve all worked for me. I have a war against green pumpkin though. It’s simply too bland and ugly. I’m fine with a trailer being green pumpkin as long as the jig or whatever has got some color to it. Plain ol green pumpkin though? No way. Needs some Spike-It or needs to be Green Pumpkin Red, Green Pumpkin Blue, Green Pumpkin Purple. Anything but Green Pumpkin. 

[PaulVE64]

 

[gim]

Firetiger seems to be fairly popular here and I own a few lures in that pattern.  However, the pike seem to love that color.  Flashy, bright colors are magnets for them so I rarely use that pattern if I can avoid it.

[Catt]

Green Pumpkin 👎

[FishTank]

Realistic looking baits. The ones that try to mimic the exact patterns of fish.  They just don't seem to work for me.

 

Like this guy from Storm. Every color I have tried from them seems to work but this one.

 

 

 

[BassinCNY]

Junebug

[LonnieP]

Black and Blue Jigs and trailers. I catch more bass on a jig than anything else but have never caught one on Black/Blue.

[Pat Brown]

I'm in the 'basically when you're on a good bite it doesn't matter' camp AND different situations call for different colors so they're all good sometimes.

 

That being said - around here the water is pretty clear most of the time so I don't fish a lot of super bright neon colors much.

 

I do better in general on colors that mimic forage.

 

When visibility gets worse I like darker colors more than super bright neon colors or I'll just use white which is natural / stands out/ mimics everything.

[Aaron_H]

4 hours ago, SC53 said:

Sexy Shad and red color in cranks or jerk baits. 
Pumpkin in worm colors have not been that good for me here in Florida.

 

Very, very limited success on red for me as well, Steve. A red lipless did get me my 8lb 10oz PB tilapia, though 😅

 

3 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

They’ve all worked for me. I have a war against green pumpkin though. It’s simply too bland and ugly. I’m fine with a trailer being green pumpkin as long as the jig or whatever has got some color to it. Plain ol green pumpkin though? No way. Needs some Spike-It or needs to be Green Pumpkin Red, Green Pumpkin Blue, Green Pumpkin Purple. Anything but Green Pumpkin. 

 

How dare you, sir.

 

[LrgmouthShad]

I really like plum apple because it matches my colorful personality 

[Pat Brown]

Plum Apple can't make up its mind.  Is it a plum?  Is it an apple?

 

[Wprich]

1 hour ago, BassinCNY said:

Junebug

Junebug for me to never caught a fish on a junebug worm, creature, or lizard and I have tried.

[Mike L]

26 minutes ago, Wprich said:

Junebug for me to never caught a fish on a junebug worm, creature, or lizard and I have tried.

Interesting how things are so very different. 
 

June bug is my #1, slam dunk, absolute, no questions asked choice regardless of style, size or shape of every plastic I use. 

(Only exception is for sight fishing)

 

 

 

 

Mike

[Bird]

I won't throw bubble gum so it's red. 😁

[king fisher]

When fishing plastic worms I only throw Junebug, green pumpkin, and Watermelon Candy.  I also throw black and blue seven inch Senkos, but that is only becasue I can't find 7inch ones in Junebug anymore.  

 

All other colors of worms I don't catch anything with.  The fact that I never fish any other colors may be a contributing factor to my lack of success.

[casts_by_fly]

another junebug here.  I've fished it at times and have yet to catch a fish on it to the point where I've stopped carrying it.

 

I still carry brown/pumpkinseed/orange in jigs, but I can't think of a fish I've caught on that color either.  

[WRB]

Our lakes Threadfin Shad, crawdads and young of the year bluegill, crappie and carp make up the primary prey sourced.

Hatchery stocked  rainbow trout if they restart that program .

Shad colors pearl white/iridescent blue back.

Crawdad colors red-brown or brown-green w/red purple specks.

Bluegill colors green w/blue-purple dark green bars.

Crappie, green w/black specks.

Carp colors gold-brown.

Trout colors green back w/ black specks and pearl white.

The only staple color I only use at night or mid winter is black-blue.

Tom