"Staple" Colors You Have No Faith In

[Drawdown]

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

[Functional]

Walks out to bunker, shuts the door but leaves a 1" gap for my lips to peek out and quietly yell "Green Pumpkin". Immediately slams the door and throw the locks....

 

seriously though straight up GP does not work for me in worms, jigs, swim jigs, spinnerbaits, etc. I have to go to a watermelon that works very well but the minute i switch to GP its like Im fishing in a bath tub. More translucent greens, browns, black/blue and deep purples are the most productive in soft plastics. Shad colors for moving baits (jerkbaits excluded) and florescent green under bellies for frogs. 

[fishballer06]

Methiolate.

[Rockhopper]

Green Pumpkin has never produced for me. Ever.  Black/Blue produces every outing.

[LrgmouthShad]

Lots of love for Junebug here. It’s a great color and I don’t use it enough 

[Bazoo]

Worms, I pretty much use all the classic colors and don't have any issues. Sometimes they prefer one over the other. For worms, its junebug, watermelon red, green pumpkin, watermelon, and a handful of others depending. I almost never get bit on chartreuse though.

 

For crankbaits, all colors I've tried have worked to some degree.

 

I haven't yet had a jig bite on a bottom jig. Have had a swim jig fish though. So black/blue for jigs I guess is the one that doesn't work for me. However, I still continue to try.

[Log Catcher]

The only time black and blue work for me is on a jig and trailer. I can't catch anything on soft plastic Texas rig in that color. I'm not using green pumpkin as much as I did. Seem like the bite was falling off on that color for me.

[MIbassyaker]

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.

[gim]

10 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I really like plum apple because it matches my colorful personality 

I get called The Cactus by some of my co workers because of my personality at work.

 

“Sharp and prickly”

 

[GetFishorDieTryin]

Bluegill or GP based spinnerbaits have never produced well for me, but strangely enough I smash them on GP swim/vibrating jigs.

In cold water I cant seem to do well with Junebug, but once the water warms up its my favorite color to flip or pitch.  

 

[softwateronly]

White skirt spinnerbaits....gray, silver, blue, green in natural tones all work better for me.

 

@FishTank

Looks like a largo shad to me; I feel like there is a difference in action between the "real" colors and the dyed plastisol ones and it's not in the favor of the "real" ones.  They definitely got me with the minnow pattern.

 

scott

[LrgmouthShad]

17 hours ago, gimruis said:

I get called The Cactus by some of my co workers because of my personality at work.

 

“Sharp and prickly”

 

Somebody’s gotta keep people honest 

[Bankc]

Red is the worst.  Like a brownish, crawfish red.  It's camouflage.  The bass can't see it.  Orange isn't far behind.  Especially if it's a dirty orange. 
 

But, I must add that the water around here is rust colored, so that's probably why. 

 

If I ever found a rust colored braided fishing line, I'd buy it.  That's how I feel about red. 

[Huckfinn38]

Red crankbaits for sure... Over the years probably have $100 spent on red baits and can only remember 2 fish I caught on them.

[Fishingmickey]

22 hours ago, Rockhopper said:

Green Pumpkin has never produced for me. Ever.  Black/Blue produces every outing.

Black/Blue never, Green Pumpkin 10" Berkley power worm, bit down to a 8.5" always.  Don't you even dare try talking me out of my "Blue fleck" worms though. That deep purple worm with blue flecks in it.... ahhhhh yaah!

FM

[Huckfinn38]

Oh and anything chartreuse is becoming that way.  Almost like the bass have seen the color so much that they know not to touch it.  

[BassinCNY]

On 8/5/2024 at 12:06 PM, Mike L said:

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

I've thought about the reason why junebug doesn't seem to work as well for me as blacks, green pumpkins and watermelons and I think it's a match the hatch deal. Gobies are the biggest part of a bass's diet here so they just prefer those colors. At least that's my best guess. I still catch fish on junebug they just seem to be fewer and smaller.

[Spankey]

Certain reds will work for me. Some will not and I have not been throwing them. They tend to be crankbaits that are more of a cold color. 
A red Shad worm is I different story. I have no problem fishing that. 
There are some blues I will not waste my time or money fishing with. I have a couple of good producers that are blue that work great in the fall. I will not waste my time any longer fishing them at other parts of the season. My current PB Smallie was caught on blue. Caught in the fall. PB Smallie prior to that was caught in the fall on similar blue. 
 

[crypt]

bubblegum.........no, never,......never again.....ever...

[rgasr63]

I have my favorites junebug, grape,red shad,plum. I have caught fish with all of the basic colors at some point in time. I have found that it varies from pond to pond and lake to lake. If there are fish around where I am at I believe that a plastic worm or a craw bait will put the fish in the livewell. Dark colors for low light and water visibility. And brighter and clearer colors for sunny days and high visibility. 

[WRB]

My favorite Smallmouth bass color jig is Fritz named after Dave  Fritz.

Basically a hair jig with brown back, chartreuse with red around the head,

If interested I will send you a photo via your email.

Tom

PS, a friend caught the Montana state record using this jig.

[Bazoo]

I haven’t had much success with red or orange crankbaits, though I have had some, mostly on the river. Probably my least confident color.

[btoups]

Add me to the green pumpkin list.  I just don't like it and haven't had much success with it.  

[RB 77]

On 8/4/2024 at 10:06 PM, RevoSEMIpro said:

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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. 

[Munkin]

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