Color Selector

[basshunter2009]

Has anyone here ever used a Spike-It Color-C-Lector? If so what do they do and is it worth spending 120 bucks on one?

[KYntucky Warmouth]

Roland Martin swears by a color selector

[Grey Wolf]

NO.   JMHO

[Bantam1]

Roland Martin swears by a color selector

I think he also swore by the pocket fisherman and the helicopter lure  :

But he does endorse Mega Strike which I love.

[YeahSure]

There is a brief description and its only 95 there. Never heard of it until now, looks pretty sweet though.

[Raul]

I 've got a Color C-Lector unit I inherited from a friend who passed away, he was a sucker for fishing gadgets and got any gadgety looking thing, if he were alive now I bet he would have purchased a Biosonix unit. I even got a big bunch of Color C-Lector approved baits form during the Color C-Lector craze/era ( same way I 've got photofinish lures from the photofinish craze/era and guanim finish lures from the guanim craze/era ).

I 've never paid too much attention to the gadget when my pal was alive and we went fishing, he used it extensively and don 't remember seeing any evidence his catch ratio getting better when choosing the colors the unit recommended.  :-?

The unit is there somewhere gatheting dust and the only reason I haven 't trashed it is because it has sentimental value.

[D4u2s0t]

Has anyone here ever used a Spike-It Color-C-Lector? If so what do they do and is it worth spending 120 bucks on one?

If you truly take the time to experiement, you'll see that color is the lowest item on the totem pole of succesful fishing.  Focus more on your presentation and lure placement.

[Koop]

waist of money imo.  There is an iphone app for $3 that does the same thing pretty much.  Import weather conditons temp water clarity etc and it tells you what color to use.  

[.ghoti.]

I have no idea if that thing will enable you to catch any more fish.

I do know that it has caught a lot of fishermen over the years.

My Dad had one when they first hit the market. Why he bought one I'll never know. He never used an artificial bait in his life. He was a live bait fishermen all the way.

[cart7t]

Dr. Loren Hill made a fortune off of those.  The lure manufacturers did too.  Do you remember the solid color lures they were selling that matched the primary colors shown on the selector?  A pack of crankbaits that looked like a rainbow.

;D

My friend bought one when they came out well over 20 years ago.  They didn't work then and they'll do no better now.  

[Koop]

One thing they do well however is give new anglers an idea of what works and basic principals.  

This can be learned however by reading (and you save ($100).

[SWH]

Never heard of it but looks like a gimick to me... although its well worth the time to go to http://www.ispikeit.com/ and click on the link at the top of the page and have a look at their spokeswomen...  ;D

[Derek84]

ColorCLector.... eh.... Spokeswoman....  ;D   ;D

[SWH]

its no wonder they sold a bunch of those gimmicks

[cart7t]

Never heard of it but looks like a gimick to me... although its well worth the time to go to http://www.ispikeit.com/ and click on the link at the top of the page and have a look at their spokeswomen... ;D

Actually, it's not so much a gimmick as that it doesn't do what those that buy it would like it to do.

Which is, tell which color on a given day a bass is most likely to strike.

What it does do is indicate which the color the bass can best see given the existing water clarity and light conditions.

The actual principals of the device are backed by lab experiments by Dr Loren Hill. The problem is, what buyers wanted from the unit they didn't get.

For example, if I come home from work and the wife has a juicy T-bone steak on a plate at a candle lit dinner table I could probably see the steak a lot easier if it was colored Flourescent Orange, I doubt I'd eat it though.

[90x]

JIMMY HOUSTON!!!!!!!!

[.ghoti.]

cart7t, you owe me a bottle of Windex. I just spewed coffee all over my desk.

Flouro-orange T-bone.

[Sfritr]

I believe it was invented by the BAIT MONKEY to keep us intrigued enough to buy more lures..........  DANG MONKEY

[Quinte bass]

Save your money...as good an investment as waterfront somewhere very wet in Florida...😀

[gregsummers]

I was a student of Dr. Loren Hill way back when (circa 1973). I counted him as a friend up until he passed. I know a little about the research regarding the Color-C- Lector and the graduate assistant that worked on its development. From what I gathered from the GA, the field research, that backed the laboratory studies, was a little sketchy. The device itself was not much more than a probe that measures water clarity. Then in turn that clarity was partnered with the physics of light wavelength penetration in water. The GA told of being outfitted with SCUBA gear and dragged behind a boat trying to ID fish that he saw while water clarity measurements were taken simultaneously. Sound fishy (no pun intended)?