Super User SirSnookalot Posted February 9, 2012 Super User Posted February 9, 2012 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. Quote
Super User Sam Posted February 9, 2012 Super User Posted February 9, 2012 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. Quote
backwater4 Posted February 9, 2012 Posted February 9, 2012 White (aside from a spinnerbait trailer) purple and yellow. I'm more of a green pumpkin, blue fleck, red Shad type of guy. Quote
tholmes Posted February 9, 2012 Posted February 9, 2012 Black Really? As far as solid colors go, black is easily my best producer. Give it a try! Tom Quote
Bass Dude Posted February 9, 2012 Posted February 9, 2012 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. Quote
Super User J Francho Posted February 9, 2012 Super User Posted February 9, 2012 JF, what is over your head? I can't make it out. One of these: Quote
Super User .ghoti. Posted February 9, 2012 Super User Posted February 9, 2012 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. 2 Quote
POPRG Posted February 9, 2012 Posted February 9, 2012 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? Quote
Super User J Francho Posted February 9, 2012 Super User Posted February 9, 2012 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. 1 Quote
Super User roadwarrior Posted February 9, 2012 Super User Posted February 9, 2012 Never fished "pink". Maybe I will give it a try. Quote
Super User J Francho Posted February 9, 2012 Super User Posted February 9, 2012 Pink doesn't work on browns either.... Quote
Hyrule Bass Posted February 9, 2012 Posted February 9, 2012 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... Quote
SausageFingers Posted February 9, 2012 Posted February 9, 2012 Black. And for some strange reason, green pumpking without any flake. With flake, no problem. I think its just a confidence thing for me. Quote
Super User Bassin_Fin@tic Posted February 9, 2012 Super User Posted February 9, 2012 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! Quote
urp Posted February 10, 2012 Posted February 10, 2012 White is my #1 plastic color and is strong in hardbaits. Quote
flippin and pitchin Posted February 10, 2012 Posted February 10, 2012 Pink doesn't work on browns either.... 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. Quote
bigbassctchr101 Posted February 10, 2012 Posted February 10, 2012 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. Quote
detroit1 Posted February 10, 2012 Posted February 10, 2012 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. Quote
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