Colors Besides Green Pumpkin Or Watermelon 2024

KentuckyDave reply :

I fish mainly clear to stained water at worst and was wondering what other colors work besides green pumpkin and watermelon? I'm mainly interested in colors for soft plastics only. Any insight would be wonderful

KYntucky Warmouth reply :

I see you fish Cedar Creek, fish there quit a bit from time to time. The main color I use is watermelon red but I also use junebug, watermelon magic, and plum apple in zoom baits, aarons magic from roboworm, and baby bass in a senko. I tend to stick with green baits for the most part.

bassh8er reply :

I only use black and GP for my plastics.

For swimbaits and Flukes, I'll tend towards baitifsh colors. Simplifying your color selection makes for a greater variety of baits, which I believe is more important than color.

I'd rather have 2 different colors of 10 different baits than 20 different colors of the same bait.

Felix77 reply :

Baby Bass and Black are 2 of my top. Green Pumpkin being my #1 color.

Sam reply :

Anyting with light blue in it.

Also, if KYWarmouth says he is catching them on his colors then by all means use his colors.

OkobojiEagle reply :

Roadkill

keith71 reply :

Oxblood,Cinnamon,Smoke and Plum are my favorite for clear water.

rockchalk06 reply :

Black n Blue

endless reply :

My favorite GO TO and all time color is Plum Apple, but June Bug has worked well too.

bassin is addicting reply :

other than green pumpkin and watermelon in clear to stained, i use junebug the most in stained to muddy water. and have luck with junebug even at night.

tholmes reply :

My most productive colors are Tequila Sunrise, Red Shad and Junebug. Green Pumpkin and Watermelon work well sometimes, but they wouldn't be my first choice.

Tom

Darren. reply :

Deviation on the theme of GP and watermelon, perhaps add a chartreuse tail to it. I've had some great success when traditional colors didn't work, adding chartreuse did the trick.

gripnrip reply :

I love purple hues as well! Also black/blue.

Snakehead Whisperer reply :

If it were me I'd also add motor oil, red, and blue fleck/junebug to the arsenal.

nascar2428 reply :

Watermelon red, and pumpkin seed were my go to last year. I added black and motor oil for this year, we'll see how those work.

ww2farmer reply :

I like bubble gum.........in any water clarity, with fluke and trick worm style baits.

WRB reply :

On 2/2/2013 at 4:42 AM, KentuckyDave said:
I fish mainly clear to stained water at worst and was wondering what other colors work besides green pumpkin and watermelon? I'm mainly interested in colors for soft plastics only. Any insight would be wonderful

Water clarity differs from person to person, no standard in bass fishing circles.

So for this discussion lets say clear water you can easily see bottom details at 10', slightly off color at 6' and stained water it's hard to see the bottom at 3' with sunlight overhead.

When the water is clear the full color spectrom of soft plastics can work and often do. More natural tones that mimic bait fish or bottom critters are good choices.

When the water is slightly off color the color selection is wide, opaque or less translucent in lieu of translucent colors work well.

Stained water defuses light quickly so translucent colors tend to fed into the background and more solid high contrast colors work better.

Color names are product created; watermelon is green, pumpkin is amber, both natural baitfish and crawdad colors in some waterways. Smoke Is translucent clear soft plastic and a good color choice in clear water.

Adding highlights to smoke is usually done with metallic flakes in black, silver, gold, copper, blue, purple, Green etc. smoke with a pearl white belly is a very good color where threadfin shad are baitfish. Adding silver and gold flakes to smoke pearl white works great in clear water. Translucent cinnamon is another good choice in clear and slightly off color water. Adding a neon blood vein in translucent Cinnamon like blue neon or purple neon with red flakes looks a lot like a live night crawler for example and works good in both clear and slightly off color water.

Stained water the low light you may need to use solid colors like black with contrasting blood veins in neon blue or dark purple with neon green or blue and dark brown with black or brown with neon orange belly. All these combinations works good in stained water or at night.

Tom

whitwolf reply :

Red shad, black, red bug, and white........

basseditor reply :

My number one producer is blue fleck

Teal reply :

Pumpkin seed. Okeechobee Craw. Zooms moccasin pattern. And of course black/blue and black/red.

All good producers. I also like motor oil colors in super clear water.

Wayne P. reply :

I mostly use these Zoom colors with no favorite. One produces as well and any other at any time:

Baby Bass, Mardi Gras, Green Pumpkin, Watermelon Purple, Watermelon Red, Watermelon, Watermelon Candy, Red Shad, Cotton Candy, Pumpkin, June Bug, Limeaid, Bubble Gum, Smokin Blue, Green Pumpkin Green, Green Pumpkin Red, Bait Fish, Moccasin Blue, White, Seedless Watermelon, Seedless Pumpkin, Junebug Red, Red Bug, Yellow, Lemon, Lemon Shad, Red/ Black Core, Natural Blue, Cherry Seed, Icicle, Green Pumpkin Blue, Watermelon/ Chart. Tail, Cinnamon Purple, Watermelon Magic, Green Pumpkin Magic, Margarita

Comfortably Numb reply :

_{I like browns and pumpkin. I like gold or copper flake in anything.}

fstr385 reply :

In worms, other than those 2, I like 10" ribbontail in texas red, pumpkin green/pearl, motor oil/chart., and black senko, pearl, baby bass, pumkin/pearl, dirt.

BobP reply :

As you can see from the responses, it's mainly a confidence thing. Mine are green pumpkin, watermelon, junebug, and smoke, all with black flake. More than anything, I wanted to settle on just a few colors to keep from going crazy and broke buying plastics. I use green pumpkin most of the time, in most water clarity. Watermelon in super clear water. Junebug in dirty or deep water, and smoke works well for me in clear cold water for some reason. I'm not saying that there isn't a perfect shade of plastic with the perfect flake color for each lake, at specific times, under specific conditions. Maybe there is, maybe not. But if you choose something generic green, something translucent, and something dark that you have confidence in, you will have the basics covered and will catch fish 95% of the time.

BassWhole! reply :

There are other colors?!

roadwarrior reply :

As you see in the responses to this thread, and every other "color" thread,

nearly everything is somebody's favorite! Pick something you like, that will

probably work just fine. Two of my favorites are Black w/ Blue Flake and

Falcon.

MCS reply :

On 2/2/2013 at 6:02 AM, tholmes said:

My most productive colors are Tequila Sunrise, Red Shad and Junebug. Green Pumpkin and Watermelon work well sometimes, but they wouldn't be my first choice.

Tom

In addition to these black with blue flake and sometimes a blue tip.

HeavyDluxe reply :

Something green, some craw-colored, and something black.

Crankenstein Crony reply :

Motor oil, ox blood, junebug, aaron's magic, baby bass, dirt, cotton candy, pumpkin

Jig Meister reply :

Anything green black or brown with various flecks.

Bluebasser86 reply :

Cinnamon/purple flake, pumpkin green flake, and summer craw are a few of my favorite clear to stained water colors.

Jake P reply :

I keep it simple. IMO colors are overrated. I use colors of baitfish and prey that bass see and eat. For me, color does not have to match bait. For instance, a craw is orange. I will throw an orange crank even though out doesn't resemble a craw. Simply because it is a familiar color and or the right time of the year for that prey to be present. Of that doesn't make sense, I'm sorry. Nyquil is a hell of a drug.

Jake P reply :

That being said. I like GP , falcon craw, smoke pearl, junebug, red Shad, watermelon.

I throw falcon craw and GP 85% of the time though.

flippin and pitchin reply :

scuppernong

Blue Streak reply :

In stained water Junebug is the best for me and I also like Berkley's Camo and Roadkill Camo which seems to be getting hard to find. If the water is a little darker black and black and blue are my best. In clear water stay with the greens.

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