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WRB reply :
The color blue at onetime was the predominate soft plastic worm color, remember blueberry jelly worms?
Today it's hard to find a blue worm locally, you can still find blue soft plastic worms and jig trailers and blue is used as a highlite accent color.
I can't remember when I stopped using blue and changed to purple. My soft plastics have blue neon highlites and crankbaits have blue accents.
I am going to get out my blue jigs and soft plastics and introduce them to the local bass population.
Tom
scaleface reply :
I bought 200 , 8 inch blueberry JellyWorms two years ago . They should last me awhile .
j bab reply :
Great point. I wonder if new colors are superior or if people just like new stuff? I wonder the same about some of the old school hard baits, are they outclassed by modern baits or just not as cool/new so no one uses them? I'm sure it's a combination of both, but I'd love to see someone fish with only old baits for a period of time and report back 
Mobasser reply :
On 10/5/2019 at 1:17 AM, WRB said:The color blue at onetime was the predominate soft plastic worm color, remember blueberry jelly worms?
Today it's hard to find a blue worm locally, you can still find blue soft plastic worms and jig trailers and blue is used as a highlite accent color.
I can't remember when I stopped using blue and changed to purple. My soft plastics have blue neon highlites and crankbaits have blue accents.
I am going to get out my blue jigs and soft plastics and introduce them to the local bass population.
Tom
Tom, I used to love blue also. When the first electric blue worms hit my area years ago they couldn't keep them in stock. I've leaned towards purple and grape for years now too. But I'm sure blue will still work good, and agree that their hard to find also. Every color of blue now is a variation of blue mixed with other colors.
scaleface reply :
On 10/5/2019 at 1:35 AM, j bab said:Great point. I wonder if new colors are superior or if people just like new stuff? I wonder the same about some of the old school hard baits, are they outclassed by modern baits or just not as cool/new so no one uses them? I'm sure it's a combination of both, but I'd love to see someone fish with only old baits for a period of time and report back
I use a lot of out of production baits but quit recommending them because people cant purchase them anyway .
Mobasser reply :
I believe that blue was also Bill Dances favorite color for years too.
J Francho reply :
I don't think blue has lost any favor. Just about every soft plastic line has some type of blue in it.
flatcreek reply :
On 10/5/2019 at 1:45 AM, Mobasser said:I believe that blue was also Bill Dances favorite color for years too.
He throws a bps blue swipeworm alot on his recent shows.it’s a knockoff of the stembridge fliptail.
Mike L reply :
On 10/5/2019 at 1:31 AM, scaleface said:I bought 200 , 8 inch blueberry JellyWorms two years ago . They should last me awhile .
I did also and that is the only large plastic I've gotten hit on all summer.
Mike
Catt reply :
The first bass I caught on Toledo Bend was on a blue Rebel Ringworm.
The first 15 bass limit I caught on Toledo Bend was on a blue Rebel Ringworm.
My favorite jig trailer is Sapphire Blue!
I forgot, one of my hottest lures this year!
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TnRiver46 reply :
Ironically, our very own @Bluebasser86 recently uploaded a video using a blue texas rig. He throws a lot of blue vibrating jigs too
riverat reply :
A blue plastic worm is still one of my favorites. Back in the 70's and 80's I used a blue Fliptail worm with great success.
Fliptail is back in business and I ordered 100 blue worms earlier this year and they still work. I used them weekend before last and caught more on this bait than the others.
I also use Sapphire Blue Zoom trailers, Rage Craws and Rage Bugs.
Fliptail Lures - https://fliptail-lures.com/shop?olsPage=products
NYWayfarer reply :
An article in the latest In-Fisherman was about Bass vision studies. They concluded that Bass see blue similar to black...
Don't kill the messenger.
tander reply :
On 10/5/2019 at 1:45 AM, Mobasser said:I believe that blue was also Bill Dances favorite color for years too.
It was. He once said, it don't matter what color you throw, as long as it is blue.
Dirtyeggroll reply :
On 10/5/2019 at 3:12 AM, NYWayfarer said:An article in the latest In-Fisherman was about Bass vision studies. They concluded that Bass see blue similar to black...
Don't kill the messenger.
I was just about to reference some of the data published about this...
https://academic.oup.com/cz/article/65/1/43/4924236/
Bluebasser86 reply :
Sapphire blue is one of my favorite colors or plastic, jig, and bladed jig. I'm fine if nobody is fishing that color. I've got a 100pk of sapphire blue BIg Bite Baits YoMommas that's been my best pastic for about 2 months straight now.
OkobojiEagle reply :
On 10/5/2019 at 4:06 AM, Dirtyeggroll said:I was just about to reference some of the data published about this...
https://academic.oup.com/cz/article/65/1/43/4924236/
Perhaps you would give us a synopsis of the article.
oe
fin reply :
On 10/5/2019 at 5:15 AM, OkobojiEagle said:Perhaps you would give us a synopsis of the article.
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QuoteIn conclusion, this study showed that bass possess dichromatic vision with red and green cells in addition to a rod cell. A simple visual model of this visual system indicated that there are colors such as chartreuse yellow that bass should perceive as being similar to white. Our behavioral assays provided good support for the model prediction that chartreuse yellow is indistinguishable from white. The behavioral assays also indicated that blue is indistinguishable from black. Bass could readily identify red and green and could distinguish these colors from achromatic alternatives. Bass from Illinois and Florida populations possess similar photoreceptor sensitivities despite differences in environmental light composition. Whether bass from these light environments have innately different learning abilities or preferences for colors in currently unknown. Our findings have implications for the recreational fishing industry and for natural systems where bass are often a top predator.
However:
QuoteVariation in the perception of visual cues is also complicated by the fact lighting environments vary dramatically in aquatic habitats. Lighting environments can vary due to the effects of water depth, algae, turbidity, dissolved organic matter, and time of day.
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Hence, variation in visual system properties and variation in lighting environments make it difficult to predict how different fish species perceive visual cues in their habitats.
rtwvumtneer6 reply :
On 10/5/2019 at 4:29 AM, Bluebasser86 said:Sapphire blue is one of my favorite colors or plastic, jig, and bladed jig. I'm fine if nobody is fishing that color. I've got a 100pk of sapphire blue BIg Bite Baits YoMommas that's been my best pastic for about 2 months straight now.
Haven't tried those, yet, but the Net Bait Paca Chunk? Jig trailers in Flippin' Blue takes a black/blue jig to the next level.
NYWayfarer reply :
“The behavioral assays also indicated that blueis indistinguishable from black.”
That’s pretty much what the In-Fisherman article said. Now that I went back and read it again they were writing about the article @Dirtyeggroll referenced.
Big Rick reply :
My favorite and most productive spinnerbait for years....
primetime reply :
I feel like everyone in Florida uses either a black and blue soft bait or something in a green pumpkin blue mix....then Junebug...
I still have a pack of the Mann's Blue Jelly Worms. I should bring them back out and use them. I use the bright fire and ice blue culprits on sunny days when I am struggling and sometimes they come through.
THe Manns Blue color is a different blue than anything i have seen in years. You are right. I bet they would work well instead of a trick worm, especially with the translucent color, I always feel Roboworms and culprits work well because of the different colors compared to other baits, Mann's was once the worm to use, so has to work just as good today.
I have never seen a blue translucent Senko which is strange...Also Grape worms which were my favorite back in the day are never in color lineups. Everything has flake in it or a solid purple....I almost never use solid black anymore now that I think about it, except for trailers....Strange how the industry will change things up and stop selling good colors.....Producto has an 8" straight worm with a small paddle tail that is in a grape color that I love and alot of people actually use that worm, also in electric blue....But its an older niche Company/OEM.
scaleface reply :
Blue Jelly worms I plan on throwing some next week .
Raul reply :
Blue don't work at all
Red Shad, Tequila Sunrise and Fire n'Ice baby !
r83srock reply :
On 10/5/2019 at 7:38 AM, Big Rick said:My favorite and most productive spinnerbait for years....
I have a few of those, like em a lot. I’m big on flippin blue and sapphire blue jig trailers and black and blue jigs are pretty much the only jig color I throw.
Bluebasser86 reply :
I like the bright blue, some companies call it sapphire blue, backwater blue, swampwater blue, it's bright blue whatever they want to call it. It works great here, especially during the summer months when the water turns green with algae blooms. Also a great color at night. You cant really see how green the water is behind me in the last picture. Blue was the only color of anything I could get them to eat that day.
WRB reply :
Like I said blue was my go to color back in the 70’s and into the 80’s, then I retired blue jigs and worms preferring purple.
Lures with blue high lites I have always used, it’s bright solid blue that worked so well and apparently still does if you use it!
Tom
Todd2 reply :
There was a study done at a small lake that I read about several years back. I think in Illinois somewhere. I don't remember much of the details except blue jigs worked fast along the bottom was the #1 lure in the study.
1201vilbig reply :
This blue/core shot worm from KC Injection Baits has been my best color since he started making it - although the red/black core shot has been good also.
J Francho reply :
On 10/5/2019 at 9:17 AM, Raul said:Blue don't work at all
Howdy stranger!
OnthePotomac reply :
It is interesting that over the years surveys of bass anglers has revealed that green pumpkin has moved to the top of the most used color.
PhishLI reply :
The closest color to blue I've thrown in soft plastics is Junebug, but haven't had much success at all. Junebug's blue-ish I suppose? I had to return some stuff to Dix yesterday and they kicked out one of those "15% off of your total purchese within 3 hour" deals with the return receipt.
The day before I'd backlashed after an unresolved dig-in after a snag and sent a chatterbait into the great blue yonder, so I needed to shop anyway... I came across these ZMan RaZor ShadZ on the clearance rack and thought of this topic by WRB. They're really blue. Much more so than my picture shows. So I'll give 'em a try. I've had so much success this season with the Hazedong Shad in green pumpkin- blue, which is similar in profile. I really don't see any blue in the mix in this particular bait as it just looks like green pumpkin to me, but I'm color blind to certain shades of green and blue. I'll put in some work with these very blue ZMans and see if they like it.
waymont reply :
I've never stopped using the BlackGrape 8" Jelly Worm. It's a nice deep blue color. It's worked for almost 40 years, why stop.
BassCats reply :
Yall are giving away my secret
Harold Scoggins reply :
Gene Larew HooDaddy Blackberry Sapphire
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