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Every color I've tried produced fish, as a rule I favor white or very light. The only plastic, except the rare use of a senko, are flukes and I use the same ones for fresh and salt water. Freshwater are rigged weedless and salt are mounted on a jig head, painted or not does not affect the catch rate.

  • Super User
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Pink or white trick worms are great in Virginia.

I have caught so many on a pink trick worm fished weightless that i can't even think of a number of bass that I have caught.

Give it a try and maybe you guys will like throwing it.

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White (aside from a spinnerbait trailer) purple and yellow.

I'm more of a green pumpkin, blue fleck, red Shad type of guy.

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for me, i'd say anything that is RED has never produced. I have caught something on everything else but red. you wont find anything in that color in my box :(

I think it's very interesting how one's "crap" color is someone else's go-to color. That's what makes this sport awesome, and at times frustrating!! I have caught tons of fish on a red shad worms.

My color is junebug....I use it and never catch anything on it. I've seen people in the same boat as me catch them on it and I know people that use it successfully and have all the confidence in the world in junebug, but I do not. I have them, but rarely use that color.

  • Super User
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JF, what is over your head?

I can't make it out.

One of these:

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  • Super User
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But what color haven't/won't you try? Black and white is another I've seen that I never tried.

I really can't think of color I've seen for sale that I wouldn't try. Having said that, there are many colors I simply don't buy. I've been trying to get my plastics selections under control for several years. I'm following two concepts in this effort.

Limit the number of selections within a particular type. For example, I buy Zoom Salty Super Flukes and Yum Houdini Shads. I no longer buy any other fluke-type baits. I try to follow that concept with other types, such as craws, straight worms, curl-tails worms, creatures, tubes, etc.

The other concept is to buy only a few key colors of each individual bait. Tjose are my guiding principles fro soft plastic bait selection. What colors depends on what's availble within each baits line-up. To keep it simple i want something dark blue, or black/blue; something like red shad; watermelon/red flake, pumpkin/dark flake, and that's about it. Even more simply put; blue, red, green and orange or brown.

I started this quest about four years ago. At this point, I have more plastics than I had when I started, so the effort can only be called a miserable failure.When I started I had four BPS double sided binder bags. Now I have seven.

Oh, well; the quest continues.

  • Like 2
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I have caught tons of fish on a red shad worms.

same here BD,red shad is killer for me,but with the solid tomato/bright red color,i cant buy a strike?

  • Super User
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I started this quest about four years ago. At this point, I have more plastics than I had when I started, so the effort can only be called a miserable failure.When I started I had four BPS double sided binder bags. Now I have seven.

Oh, well; the quest continues.

Simplification? Resistance is futile.

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I never use black or bright red and bright orange colors. havent used blue much either.

as for the pink/bubblegum colored plastics, theyve worked pretty good for me out of the pack i have. theyre bubblegum made by Haw River Tackle i think, and theyre a 7" floating worm. i fish them weightless on a 4/0 worm hook and the action is great on them. i give them a slight jerk and they slither through the water like a snake and sink slow, pond bass really seem to crush them...

  • Super User
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Wouln't be caught dead without solid black in just about any soft plastic around here in Florida! And that includes flukes. I'm like just about anyone else. I won't touch hunter orange worms or bright yellow. yellow is even supposed to be good in saltwater and I can't bring myself to even attempt it!

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Pink doesn't work on browns either....

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That's not fair. Soft Pink is my go to for steelhead jigs in clear water. For BASS fishing. I don't think so. I watched Jimmy Houston whack the bass on a bubble gum spinnerbait. Tried one. Bust.

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I can't remember who it is, but one of the elite guys fish a bubblegum bandit for reaction bites. I think pink and chart are awesome fluke colors for aggresive and territorial fish.

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I hear you Ghoti. I guess black or methiolate are 2 colors i won't buy. White (or mostly white) is my plastic color of choice.

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