For baits and lures..... If you could only choose 3..... Regardless of the bait or lure, state, or season. What would be your 3 must have colors?
Gold , silver and green
White. Black. Green Pumpkin.
Green Pumpkin, Chartreuse, purple
Green Pumpkin, watermellon, black
White, Brown and Green Pumpkin
White, black, watermelon black fleck.
Green Pumpkin, Green Pumpkin, Green Pumpkin.
Green, black and silver
Hum,
Black, GP and watermelon
Quote from: TimH on December 10, 2014, 11:11:16 AM
Green Pumpkin, Chartreuse, purple
That's a pretty good list too! I might have to edit my answer...
Quote from: dartag on December 10, 2014, 04:33:56 PM
Green Pumpkin, Green Pumpkin, Green Pumpkin.
I wonder some days if it really is that simple...? But what would all the bait companies do then?!? ;D
Quote from: t-bone on December 10, 2014, 08:00:37 PM
Green, black and silver
Silver? That's interesting. Do you mean literally silver, or maybe nickel?
So the question was for baits and lures - for hard lures, hard to go wrong with silver.
Great minds think a like, out of the three colors chosen. Every one has green as one of their 3 choices
Green, white, blue. I try to choose colors that are in the natural spectrum of colors that a bass can see and would think that it was edible. These three colors are in that spectrum.
BD ;D
Since bass have 2 vision color pigments, red & green, I've always used colors within that spectrum. I generally prefer green pumpkin, crawfish patterns-orange/brown, & my third choice tends to be baitfish/natural colors like shad, perch, bluegill, which obviously have several colors. I remember reading about an experiment on bass that have never seen lures before and what colors would get the most strikes. The experimenters had 9 different colored regular floating rapalas and the silver/black back one had twice as many hits. All the other raps were painted one color and the 2nd, 3rd, & 4th most stuck colors were dark violet, green, and black. The one that was struck the least was painted all red. The regular blk/silver rap was struck the most and it wasn't even close. I have always used mostly green pumpkin or natural colors, but since fishing is so much about confidence, that's what I'm most comfortable using. I know some guys love firetiger, or swear red hooks are better, etc., but I'm convinced most of the battle is finding active fish & putting a lure in front of them that resembles something they want to eat. I don't think color matters that much.
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I've found that lure color, has a lot to do with catching fish. Water clarity,sky conditions and matching the bait in the lake. Can be the difference , between a good day and a poor day on any lake.
It's easy.........dark colors in dirty water, light colors in clear water. And sometimes color doesn't even matter. To a bass, if it looks like food, it must be food, so they eat it.
BD. ;D