"Staple" Colors You Have No Faith In

[Aaron_H]

1 hour ago, Munkin said:

Black and blue jigs

Firetiger hard baits

The color blue in general 

 

Can't believe GP is on this list? I have caught bass in 8 states on GP.

 

Allen

 

People saying green pumpkin have deeply wounded me. It's my "if I could only have one" color. 😅

[Bazoo]

 

On 8/5/2024 at 7:49 PM, MIbassyaker said:

Hmm......none?
 

I like some colors better than others, in certain times and places. But I can't think of any that I would flatly have no confidence in.

I agree completely.

 

I used to not have any confidence in clown... until I had a Shallow Shad Rap in clown and slayed them.

 

Firetiger, I haven't used much, but I have confidence in it sure. I had a firetiger chug bug when I was a youngster... I don't think I ever caught anything on it. Course the fact that I was a kid with no clue could have played some bearing.

 

Blue is a color I have a lot of confidence in for crankbaits and spinnerbaits. Not solid blue, but some blue mixed in to whatever the color is.

 

Solid color crankbaits are a no go, I don't care what color they are I want them to have some contrast, preferably in the back, unless they are white/bone.

[Pat Brown]

9 hours ago, RB 77 said:

While I have caught fish on black n blue jigs and plastics, I find almost every single other color to be more productive and it's not for lack of trying. I own a bunch of black n blue jigs, but just find that greens and browns are way more productive for me. Same with plastics. 

 

Try throwing green pumpkin variation trailers on your black and blue jigs and add just a touch of chartreuse to the tails of the trailers.  It can be a great way of using a black and blue jig in slightly cleaner water!  👍🏻

[tholmes]

The colors/patterns that I can't catch anything on are: 

Firetiger. Any so called "perch" color, especially Rapala's perch color

Baby bass

Chartreuse

Orange or red

I've caught the most on some of the colors that others have said don't produce for them.

Blue and black jigs have probably caught more bass for me than any other jig color. Green Pumpkin is a close second. 

 

Tom

 

[BayouSlide]

On 8/5/2024 at 12:44 PM, Drawdown said:

Black and blue, also sapphire blue…but I think it’s because I don’t fish those enough.

 

I have the exact opposite experience here in South Louisiana where "clear" when it comes to water is a relative concept. In particular, sapphire blue in t-rigged craws or, especially, sapphire blue worms on a shaky head are my go to and among my top producers.

[Drawdown]

23 hours ago, BayouSlide said:

 

I have the exact opposite experience here in South Louisiana where "clear" when it comes to water is a relative concept. In particular, sapphire blue in t-rigged craws or, especially, sapphire blue worms on a shaky head are my go to and among my top producers.

Would you say your water tends to be brackish? Having a sort of black or otherwise tannic “tint” even when clear?

[BayouSlide]

2 hours ago, Drawdown said:

Would you say your water tends to be brackish? Having a sort of black or otherwise tannic “tint” even when clear?

 

In South Louisiana and the Atchafalaya Basin it is normally varying shades of brown, muddy with sediment, with visibility in inches rather than feet. The bayous in particular are muddy, the Bayou Teche near my house is the color of cafe a' lait.

 

You can sometimes see a tannic tint in some bodies of water that are a little clearer, due perhaps to myriad cypress trees dropping needles and seed balls.

[Drawdown]

15 hours ago, BayouSlide said:

 

In South Louisiana and the Atchafalaya Basin it is normally varying shades of brown, muddy with sediment, with visibility in inches rather than feet. The bayous in particular are muddy, the Bayou Teche near my house is the color of cafe a' lait.

That would be a neat experience to me. I’ve fished “chocolate milk” and other shades of muddy water, but these are just temporary states after storms and tend to shut feeding down anywhere but inches from the bank.

To fish in a place where it’s like that almost year-round would be very different, since fish must stay active despite low visibility. I could see how that totally changes color selection.