What Are Your Confidence Colors?

[Trickerie]

Hey all,

What are your confidence colors on certain baits? I'll go first:

Most Plastics: Mixtures of green/red, black and clear

Buzzbait: black

Spinners: White

Frogs: black/chart with defined white markings

Walkers: Bone

Cranks: Shiner colors

Jigs: None

Jerkbaits: None

I really stink at jigs and jerks lol

[SoFlaBassAddict]

Something dark

Something light

Something moderate

Something flashy

I've never been in a situation where I've "had" to have a specific color. Just pick the appropriate color shade based on clarity.

[tomustang]

The color of bluegill, bass, shiner, and shad

[J Francho]

For plastics, black, green, or brown.

[flippin and pitchin]

Greens and browns. Almost every lure I have has some mix of green and brown in it with the exception of some black blue (jig) and or pearl white (Fluke) lures. Various Crayfish and Bluegill/Perch color patterns are my most productive.

[DRhodes]

Most Plastics: Natural Colors (green, brown)

Buzzbait: Black

Spinners: Any color as long as it's white

Frogs: Natural Green

Walkers: Dont fish a walker much

Cranks: Bluegill, Bass, and Shad colors

Jigs: Black and Blue

Jerkbaits: Silver

[endless]

For plastics June bug, watermelon red, Green Pumpkin, black blue swirl or laminate. For wacky Plum Apple.

for cranks blue gill, any thing shad from sexy shad to just black/ gray.

Spinnerbaits, chatterbaits ghost shad or with chartreuse, buzzbaits same as spinners or black

Jigs I'm still learning but main color is black blue but want to find out about this PB&J.

Frogs still haven't found a favorite but the main producer for me was leopard.

[Nitrofreak]

For me it's not the color itself that I have confidence in, I have caught fish on all different kinds of colors from blue/black to motor oil, it has to be the way each bait is used in conjunction with color to catch fish that I have confidence in.

I have confidence in a very broad spectrum of baits and colors... IMO, you have to or you will suffer mentally, especially when you have to go outside of your comfort zone to find fish.

[Trickerie]

I agree that you need to be confident in baits, but I believe to be fully confident in a bait you need a color or a few colors you are happy fishing with. For example, I'm more confident in a bream yum dinger than any of their other colors!

[SAC2]

plastics= pumpkinseed of various assorted watermelons. thats where the dye markers come in handy to give em flair

spinnerbaits= white/chartruese, black (dye markers fix these up too)

cranks=shad, bluegill

jerkbaits= ghosts, perch, shiner

topwater= white belly mostly

jigs= pumpkin, black blue

[NCLifetimer]

Most Plastics: darker green, blue

Buzzbait: black

Spinners: White

Cranks: white with black, blue or a little yellow

Jigs: brown or black/blue

[Gatorbassman]

Plastics. Black, Green Pumpkin, Watermelon, Red Bug, June Bug

Buzzbaits- Black or White

Spinnerbaits - Glimmer blue and Chartreuse

Cranks - I don't have a confidence color. I use them all.

Jigs - A color combo I make myself. I call it Classic.

[bigbill]

When i first got into bass fishing I purchased a Combo-C-Lector that we put the probe in the water and it tells us what colors to use. I found it to be very successful. Its so good that KVD has one on his boat for tough days....

My hottest crankbait colors are;

For normal clear water conditions to slightly stained water.

Blue/white (minnow color, looks brown to the fish i been told)

Redcrawdad (red)

Greencraw (dark green)

Browncraw (brown)

Silver Shad (natural bait color)

For stained to muddy water conditions;

Fire craw (bright fire tiger)

Fire tiger

Chartruece

For spinnerbaits;

White/blue skirt w/ mr twister trailer

or

Chatruece skirt w/mr twister trailer

From shore i prefer the 1/8oz spinnerbaits.

[ww2farmer]

If all else fails..........I use something in green pumpkin.

[clayton86]

Plastics- green/red

Jigs- black and blue

Top water- white

Cranks-red craw patterns

Flukes(it's own plastic category)-silver or white

[Roach87]

Plastics - watermelon red or pumpkin with black flakes

Cranks - firetiger or sexy shad

Jig - brown

[basscatcher8]

Plastics - Black/Blue and GreenPumpkin/Chartruse. If its a craw black body with blue claws or greenpumkin with chartruse claws. Same with tubes or worms. Ive just always caught alot of fish on those two color combos.

Cranks - I like natural colors like the silver with black back or blue back. The bluegil patterns also work for me.

Buzzbaits/Spinnerbaits - white mixed with some silver but mostly white. I can see them better myself and I know the fish can see them as well.

[SausageFingers]

Plastics - Green pumpkin/purple, that Lime Passion color in the Havoc series, and Falcon Craw from the Rage line

Jigs - Silver/White with black, blue gill shades (brown, green, purple mix), brown/orange

Cranks - Red, Chart, and bluegill patterns

[Flukeman]

White, green, brown, black

[Bankbeater]

C-rig and T-rig's - greens, browns, and dark colors

jigs - blue/black, black, green, tan/orange

flukes - white

[NCbassmaster4Life]

all natural colors

[backcast88]

Plastics: pumpkin and/or chartreuse

Spinnerbaits: white

Jigs: brown

Crankbaits: any shad color or chartreuse

[tholmes]

Worms - some shade of purple, green pumpkin, watermelon, junebug, black

Craws & creatures - a natural craw color, black/blue

Jigs - black/blue, watermelon, green pumpkin

Spinnerbaits/buzzbaits - I don't fish 'em a lot, I suppose my "confidence" colors would be white/chartreuse and black with gold or copper blades

Crankbaits - Shad, brown craw, bluegill

Grubs - watermelon/red flake and smoke/silver flake

Tom

[JoePhish]

Soft Plastic: Black w/ Blue Fleck, Green w/ Gold Fleck

Jig: Black, Brown, Green

Frog: Black, Green

Top Water: Black, White, Yellow

Crank: Gold, Silver, Baby Bass