Plastic worm colors

[uicdent11]

After reorganizing my plastics, I have come across a few colors that I normally do not fish. I tend to stick to the naturals colors such as watermelon, pumpkinseed, etc. Here are a few of the colors that I recently discovered and I am wondering when to throw them.

1. Dark navy blue trick sticks

2. Blue w/glitter culprits (I also have this color in *** tube.)

3. Red culprits

4. Purple/red zoom mag 11

Thanks a lot for the help.

[PezJunkie]

I throw Blue Fleck and Watermelon Red, when one is not working I switch to the other.

[DINK WHISPERER]

Those are all colors i use for dark or stained water. I use the natural colors if the water is clear.

[uicdent11]

Pez,

In what water clarity do you throw the blue fleck?

[DINK WHISPERER]

That color works great for me mostly in moderately stained(3ft visibility) to chocolate milk color. If it's really dark i add a rattle as well.

[Catt]

Throw them any time you feel like it because no man can tell what colors will work when, only the bass can.

[PezJunkie]

stained

[Marty]

Throw them any time you feel like it because no man can tell what colors will work when, only the bass can.

My sentiments exactly.

[Grey Wolf]

Throw them any time you feel like it because no man can tell what colors will work when, only the bass can.

My sentiments exactly.

x3

[bigmountaineer]

Try them when nothing else will work you might just get surprised.

[soccplayer07]

i use dark colors in dark water.

[J. M. Richardson]

I have had most success with Watermelon Red Flake, Black/Blue, and some darker purple shades. Some success with pumpkin and plain Watermelon

[djmax22]

I use Blue Fleck and Red Shad {pwerworms. Usually they prefer one or the other. I fish clear water most of the time and the blue fleck has been dominating at times especially at night. Motoroil is another one that I like as well.

[eyedabassman]

I guide at night and I fish many tournaments ,I fish many clear lakes. I have fished dark colors at night and when fishing during the day and have done very well fishing dark worms like,black,black blue,junebug,red shad,teq.sunrise,black purple,greenpumpkin, so don't think that dark colors are just for dark water!

[Catt]

Ring Rascal Lures has a worm color called Starry Night; it is semi-dark smoke on top, clear see through smoke on the bottom with lots of silver glitter in the clear. Everyone says to use dark colors for night fishing so this goes against every thing you hear about night fishing and yet it is highly productive at night but no so much during day light hours. Why? Because of color contrast!

I've seen times when color made absolutely no difference at all, I've seen times when color make all the difference in the world, and I've seen times when I had to change colors after every other bass caught.

Remember about the time you think you have the bass figured out, the bass will prove you don't

[Blue Streak]

My best has been Camo and Junebug, particularly the Berkley version. Black with blue fleck or a blue tail is also very good along with Green Pumpkin and Watermelon of course. But I keep buying all of the latest to try.

[Paul Roberts]

The only thing I've felt fairly sure about was translucent worms under high visibility conditions: clear water and bright sun, and opaque worms under dark conditions. But, I'm always suspicious of color theories even my own! I guess I've just seen too many instances where they just don't hold up. We can all come up with anecdotes about times when color seemed important; but was it really? I wonder if color's not just a lot more important to people than it is to fish. Call me a skeptic (who has been known to switch colors!)

Kevin VanDam relates this story in one of his early books:

"During a tournament in MI a few years ago, the top four finishers were fishing the same weed flat that was about a quarter-mile in diameter. We were all pitching worms into the weeds and, as we later discovered, we were all using different color that each of us believed was the secret to our success. I was throwing a black worm and it was the only color I could get bit on. Yet one angler caught his on Junebug, another was using Red Shad, and another was convinced that pumpkin was the hot color. Obviously, color didn't matter to the fish as much as it did to us."

Nowadays, with the worm in Sexy Shad, and put on a red hook, might he be singing a different tune?

For me, I have my ideas, based on as much "reality" as I can muster. But, there are just so many variables in angling that I really can't tell how much color REALLY matters.

Al Lindner once described presentation as a tree, in terms of levels of importance: Speed and depth control are the trunk, color is out at the very tips of the twigs. Unless you have the trunk understood, and in control, the tips don't weigh in.

[Eddie Munster]

The only thing I've felt fairly sure about was translucent worms under high visibility conditions: clear water and bright sun, and opaque worms under dark conditions. But, I'm always suspicious of color theories even my own! I guess I've just seen too many instances where they just don't hold up. We can all come up with anecdotes about times when color seemed important; but was it really? I wonder if color's not just a lot more important to people than it is to fish. Call me a skeptic (who has been known to switch colors!)

Kevin VanDam relates this story in one of his early books:

"During a tournament in MI a few years ago, the top four finishers were fishing the same weed flat that was about a quarter-mile in diameter. We were all pitching worms into the weeds and, as we later discovered, we were all using different color that each of us believed was the secret to our success. I was throwing a black worm and it was the only color I could get bit on. Yet one angler caught his on Junebug, another was using Red Shad, and another was convinced that pumpkin was the hot color. Obviously, color didn't matter to the fish as much as it did to us."

Good post there. So primarily it's confidence first before color. I'd buy that. I fish Zoom Red Shads more than any other because I'm confident they'll boat some fish and they do. Probably because that's what I fish the most with.

My goal this season is to break the habit of giving up too quickly on a bait but mainly to keep the Zoom's put up until I've given the other baits their time in the water.

[bigmountaineer]

I usually tend to dark colors for dark waters, but you might be suprised at different times.