Colors For Tanic (Tea Colored) Water? 2025
NMUbassin reply :
Hello,
I have a big tournament coming up on a body of water that I am unfamiliar with and I am trying to out together a little gameplan for the days I get to prefish.
From what I've heard, the water is really tanic, or tea colored, has tons of smallies and is really deep. I was wondering which color patterns were more likely to be effective in this color of water. I've always had better luck on darker colors in muddy or stained water, so should I expect the same principles to apply to tanic water color?
The lake is an impoundment on a river system that is well-known for it's smallmouth fishing in the spring. Sounds like they become pretty hard to find during the summer months.
Catch and Grease reply :
Green pumpkin!!
Raul reply :
Never mind about which color, when the visbility is poor make it loud, make it shiny, make it fat, make it vibrate powerfully and the bass will find it.
Bluebasser86 reply :
Tannic water is often very different from stained water. You can usually see through tannic colored water for quite a ways, it's just the color of tea.
I seem to have a lot of luck in tannic water on gold colored baits. Either spinnerbaits with gold blades, gold colored cranks, or plastics with gold like golden shiner or sand colors.
ChrisD46 reply :
Florida has a lot of tanic colored water - can't go wrong with golld / gold flash colors and Junebug in soft plastics.
kikstand454 reply :
Yup. Gold and dark is your answer. Tannic water as mentioned above is actually really clear, its just tinted.
ColdSVT reply :
If there are smallies chartruese and bubblegum are almost always good choices
White is another good flavor
frogflogger reply :
good advice - gold, chartreuse and bubble gum are all colors smallies love to attack
Siebert Outdoors reply :
I'd have to go Black blue jig and green pumpkin purple/gold rage menace on a shaky head. Cranks I'd go with something black back with chart sides.
Dwight Hottle reply :
Pink or bubblegum color will work best.
Alonerankin2 reply :
What these other Guys said, A staple for me in Fl. Has always been Gold... Rattle baits, Green Pumkin Gold Flake,Straight tale worms as well as chrome rattletraps and black ribbon tales...
Good luck on you're Tournament
RAMBLER reply :
Firetiger; spinner baits, crank baits, soft jerk baits FIRETIGER.
WIGuide reply :
Gold, chrome, chartreuse, white, black & blue, red & black, and firetiger are all good colors.
Alonerankin2 reply :
I should add.. That my earlier post was same water color, and Gold flash excells at it, as well as chrome, however that was LMB, as far as Smallies? None in Fl. That I ever caught, so Mr. Hottle is a smallmouth Fisher, I would pay attention to his color choices, most Defiantly.
lmbfisherman reply :
On 7/30/2014 at 8:30 PM, ColdSVT said:If there are smallies chartruese and bubblegum are almost always good choices
White is another good flavor
Ditto! Did this last weekend. Not just for Smallies..pike and Largies too.
NMUbassin reply :
I really appreciate all of the information, guys!
lmbfisherman reply :
On 7/31/2014 at 12:18 AM, ACbassin said:I really appreciate all of the information, guys!
To add to the White and White/CHT colors. Normally this lake is gin clear, but this year for the first time it was tea color (I think it has to do with the rain we are getting..getting a lot more than normal). Anyway, I was worried about the White skirt on my SB. So I checked how it looked underwater, to me anyway it looked like the white was actually a bit yellow (cht) instead of white. I was like if this is what I see, I wonder what the fish sees. I was worried for nothing, I used white ice super flukes too and caught fish.
ww2farmer reply :
I fished a lot of tea colored water when I lived in Florida. For soft plastics, red shad, and junebug were the best producers for me.
NathanW reply :
For smallmouth I go with the green color that roboworm uses in their "aarons magic" colored worm, or yamamoto "Watermelon 042". Its darker that what I view as traditional watermelon, it pops pretty good in brown tinted water and we all know SM love green. I don't like green pumkin or pumkin just because I feel like they match the water color and dont pop. Looking at your bait if you cannot see it likely they cannot either.
When I am fishing largmouth in the same type of water its a very easy choice of junebug or some type of plum color or something close, no need for anything else. Black wont get the nod unless we are talking less than one foot of visibility or very low light conditions.
NMUbassin reply :
Thanks to everybody!
Kevin22 reply :
Late to the party, but I'll give my experiences. One lake here gets real tanic late fall (surrounded by oak trees). Anything white or gold lights up like a light bulb.
Weld's Largemouth reply :
On 7/30/2014 at 8:30 PM, ColdSVT said:If there are smallies chartruese and bubblegum are almost always good choices
White is another good flavor
Lol I picture you chewing on bubble gum senkos
ColdSVT reply :
On 7/31/2014 at 10:58 AM, Weld said:Lol I picture you chewing on bubble gum senkos
Lol...to be honest i have only one pack of senkos...they are watermelon pepper and have been in the boat for five years lol
When i was in maine i loved a bubblegum fluke for smallies...almost like bobber fishin..watch the fluke dissapear and set the hook! Lol
mod479 reply :
On 8/1/2014 at 2:17 AM, ColdSVT said:Lol...to be honest i have only one pack of senkos...they are watermelon pepper and have been in the boat for five years lol
When i was in maine i loved a bubblegum fluke for smallies...almost like bobber fishin..watch the fluke dissapear and set the hook! Lol
Went out and had to see for myself. Water is clear but stained and tea colored, tried a bubblegum D-shad on a keel weighted EWG 3/0. Lost one first cast, got this one on the followup. Hard stikes, color looks great in stained water. You guys made a believer outta me haha
Alonerankin2 reply :
On 8/1/2014 at 7:49 PM, mod479 said:Went out and had to see for myself. Water is clear but stained and tea colored, tried a bubblegum D-shad on a keel weighted EWG 3/0. Lost one first cast, got this one on the followup. Hard stikes, color looks great in stained water. You guys made a believer outta me haha
Cool! Neat looking fish, been awhile since I caught one that color.....
mod479 reply :
On 8/1/2014 at 7:53 PM, Alonerankin2 said:Cool! Neat looking fish, been awhile since I caught one that color.....
Thank you, I thought so too. Its always cool how they can change their coloration based on where you find them. This one came out of a channel, deepest part of this particular section of river.
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