Is this true.....

[Mobydick]

I heard that dark colored lures work best on dark and cloudy days. And that light lures work best on light and sunny days. I tested it at the lake yesterday. It was very cloudy and dark. I tied on a shad colored( it's kinda dark blue, gray and silver) and caught 1 bass. Then tried a natural shad colored kinami worm, and it caught 5 bass. Of all the brighter colored lures I tried, none worked. Is that because what I said in the beginning of this post is true, or is that just what they were biting on.

[rdneckhntr]

On dark days darker lures can be seen better by fish.  On bright days you go with bright flashy baits.

[brian_82]

Its just a rule of thumb.

[ring fry]

As a general rule, yes.  However, that theory is just one of many factors that go into bait selection.  Wind, sun angle, water clarity, depth, along with dark/light days, in my opinion, are all about equal factors in determining what colors to START with.  Eventually the bass will tell you what they want.  Sometimes it can be no rhyme or reason as to what they want.  Some of them just don't read the right books and mags. ;D

[roadwarrior]

Bass ALWAYS like dark colors or white or some other color.   :

Well, seriously...I usually fish dark soft plastics regardless of the season, light or time of day.

[JuniorFisherJJ08]

Ring fry said it.

Factors:

* Overcast/Sunny

* Water Color

* Temp

* Type of Vegitation

* Wind

Im sure there are many more, but these are what I focus on.

[T-rig]

The color mostly only matters to us! Dark allways works for me but then I use them 99% of the time.

If I had confidence in light colors I probably would catch the same amount of fish.

[wvwask]

The color mostly only matters to us! Dark allways works for me but then I use them 99% of the time.

If I had confidence in light colors I probably would catch the same amount of fish.

Same here, I thow darker, shad like colors until the cows come home.  It is rare they don't produce.  

[Guest avid]

dark shades of natural colors seem to be the most reliable, but someone 'splain to me why a bright pink trick worm is a killer bait.

Guess we'll have to interview a bass.

[skillet]

 Unless it's a spinner bait, I'm probably throwing darker or more natural colors...

                                           As Ever,

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[Nate]

The color mostly only matters to us! Dark allways works for me but then I use them 99% of the time.

If I had confidence in light colors I probably would catch the same amount of fish.

i agree with t-rig.... i would use what you have the most confidence in...

[Senko4life]

I mostly use natural and more light colors, but i thinks thats just because thats what I have confidence in.  If the light colors arn't producing then I switch up until the bass tell me what they want.

[Catt]

It's a confidence thing, 85% of the time this is what I use regardless of conditions  

Plastic worms its Cinnamon Pepper Neon/June Bug Laminated (Camouflage)

Creature baits or trick worms its Watermelon Neon

Jigs its Black/Blue

Spinner baits its white skirt with double gold willow leaf

Rat-L-Traps or Rogues its gold, black back & orange belly

[mattm]

I think it is all confidence.  For instance I should just throw every soft plastic I have away if it isn't watermelon something.  Its all I end up throwing 99% of the time.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

Bass ALWAYS like dark colors or white or some other color.   :

Well, seriously...I usually fish dark soft plastics regardless of the season, light or time of day.

Ditto, "light" for me would be a sand, tan,pumpkin, a color most others would consider "dark" (soft plastics)

[grimlin]

dark shades of natural colors seem to be the most reliable, but someone 'splain to me why a bright pink trick worm is a killer bait.

Guess we'll have to interview a bass.

;D i got two packs of pink bait...i felt kinda girly for picking them up...but i hear they do work.

[Guest avid]

I wish I could say that color does not matter.

It would make lure buying so much easier.

But the fact is that I have used a bait, in a confidence color, lets say black/blue and got little action then switched to a different color, lets say green pumpkin and started nailing them.

Is it because the sun came out, or the wind shifted, or the moon aligned with mars and it's the dawning of the age of Aqaurius?

I don't know.  Alls I knows is when I changed color I caught fish.

[bassbob08]

when fishing a pink worm do you have to have a limp wrist? ;D ;D ;D ;D

[RoLo]

Well, there must be 100 variables that enter into every cast we make

(speed change, line-of-retrieve, sun behind cloud, lure bumps object, depth change, baitfish move in, baitfish move out).

I'd like to know how it can be proven that "color" ever made a positive or negative difference.

It's important to remember that "some color HAS to win", but the win doesn't HAVE to be the result of color, and usually isn't.

Once we think we've found that color, we won't give any other colors a chance, so now that color will claim 100% of our catch.

It really doesn't matter what color or colors we marry, because the intangible is "Confidence".

Here's another instance of "some color HAS to win": The highest percentage of auto fatalities took place in a Dark Blue car.

Do you suppose that Dark Blue had anything to do with those fatalities,

or was it due perhaps to one of more of the other 100 variables

Roger

[JuniorFisherJJ08]

Well, there must be 100 variables that enter into every cast we make

(speed change, line-of-retrieve, sun behind cloud, lure bumps object, depth change, baitfish move in, baitfish move out).

I'd like to know how it can be proven that "color" ever made a positive or negative difference.

It's important to remember that "some color HAS to win", but the win doesn't HAVE to be the result of color, and usually isn't.

Once we think we've found that color, we won't give any other colors a chance, so now that color will claim 100% of our catch.

It really doesn't matter what color or colors we marry, because the intangible is "Confidence".

Here's another instance of "some color HAS to win": The highest percentage of auto fatalities took place in a Dark Blue car.

Do you suppose that Dark Blue had anything to do with those fatalities,

or was it due perhaps to one of more of the other 100 variables

Roger

Rodger, its very easy to prove, notice a bass swimming the shore.  You throw a light senko out there he pays not attention to it.  Throw a dark senko out and BAM!  Im not saying thats true but Color does have a play in the fish you catch the more natural the better.

[RoLo]

Rodger, its very easy to prove, notice a bass swimming the shore. You throw a light senko out there he pays not attention to it. Throw a dark senko out and BAM! Im not saying thats true but Color does have a play in the fish you catch the more natural the better.

Yes, but that can also happen if you cast the same color twice to the same fish (e.g. 2" difference in line-of-retrieve)

In my opinion, color is very important but only inasmuch as it affects "lure visibility".

Once the lure has been noticed, I believe that more important criteria will determine whether a strike is triggered or not.

Factors such as lure action, lure depth, lure shape, lure size, speed-of-retrieve, line-of-retrieve, etc. (no two casts are identical).

Roger