Solid Color Bait You Never Use 2024

JDuncan reply :

Is there a solid color soft plastic you always disreguard or ignore for whatever reason? White or albino are colors i never give a chance. Just curious if anyone else does this on a conscious or subconcious level.

msolorio reply :

yea, same as you. for some reason white and albino never get a chance, i have some baits that are those colors but they really never get used.

Gangley reply :

White soft plastics rarely get used. I will throw a bone popper and white/grey back cranks, but rarely do I throw a solid white soft plastic. Actually, I think the only white soft plastic I have ever thrown was a pearl white fluke. I have no doubt that white works, its just not one of my confidence colors.

MNGeorge reply :

Oxblood has never produced one single bite for me, either plain or with some kind of flake in it. White, on the other hand, is a "go to" color for me in fluke type baits, grubs and occasionally tubes.

bigbassctchr101 reply :

I can't think of a color that I haven't thrown and caught at least one fish on. White/Albino flukes are confidence baits as well as chartruese and bubble gum flukes.

Sapphire blue jig chunks

Yellow floating worms on the back of buzzbaits

green pretty much a mainstay for many people

reds-blacks-purples- all night time colors

Maybe grey! just cuz I can't think of any reason why I would want grey over a white or black.

crankbait2009 reply :

for me, i'd say anything that is RED has never produced. I have caught something on everything else but red. you wont find anything in that color in my box

tholmes reply :

I've caught fish on white grubs, but never on any other white soft plastic. THe other colors that I've never caught anything on are bubblegum and orange.

Tom

zip pow reply :

Light brown bought some never ever going to use them

J Francho reply :

Opaque orange or yellow would be ones I never tried. Ohers that are see through orange like pumpkin I've had luck with, but those usually have flakes in them. What's funny is trout, salmon, and steelhead go nuts for all those solid colors - white, pink, orange, yellow, green. Bright green would be another. They always have flakes in them.

.ghoti. reply :

Interesting question. I can't think of a soft plastic color, that I've tried, that hasn't produced at least one time or another.

J Francho reply :

But what color haven't/won't you try? Black and white is another I've seen that I never tried.

5bass reply :

A solid color bait? Blaze orange (I see lots of trick worm type baits in this color) Never bought any, never thrown any and probably won't anytime soon. (they'll probably be killin' blaze orange trick worms this spring)

J Francho reply :

Scott, they kill pink and orange jerkbaits up here...a "not so much a secret anymore" in my circles.

Look what's flying over my head:

And what it caught:

Why they would work for hardbaits, and not soft is probably a myth. I still ain't throwing an orange worm, LOL.

Ima Bass Ninja reply :

Bubblegum has never produced for me.....On my home lake if you don't have a white fluke in the boat you are gonna miss out on allot of fish....

WCCT reply :

On 2/9/2012 at 4:08 AM, J Francho said:

But what color haven't/won't you try? Black and white is another I've seen that I never tried.

Black and white is one I have never really wanted to try either. When I had my bait company, I had a couple of guys special order this color. One guy ordered something like 300 4" ringworms. It must work.

Hi Salenity reply :

Pink worms! If there comes a day I need to use them I'm out.

Hi Salenity reply :

I use a White paddle tale with large black flakes a lot.

Sam reply :

JF, what is over your head?

I can't make it out.

JDuncan reply :

Bubble gum is a color ive been wanting to try but havnt, ill grab a pack.. Walk around the store then end up putting it back

flippin and pitchin reply :

Bubble gum. No way.

heavyduty reply :

Bubblegum is a confidence color for me!

Like some, I can't think of a color that I haven't caught at least one on....

zip pow reply :

On 2/9/2012 at 6:09 AM, Hi Salenity said:

Pink worms! If there comes a day I need to use them I'm out.

come to gville in the spawn and i'll make you beg for a sissy pink floating worm. Ha ha

Pond fisher reply :

Black

Hooligan reply :

The solid I just can't come to throw is some hideously ugly cherry red from, I think, Luck E Strike. I'm sure it would work somewhere, but I haven't found the need.

POPRG reply :

got schooled by my partner who was using a bubblegum/pink trickworm once..the d**n thing would barely even touch down and it would get annihilated!

He actually found out about the "magic color" a few days earlier when i was working,told me about it and i still would not break down and buy this day-glo pink bait..thought he was kidding around.

never had much luck w/ that color anywhere else,but it still crushes 'em today on this one lake!?!?

Have bad luck w/ all solid red or orange..

SirSnookalot reply :

Every color I've tried produced fish, as a rule I favor white or very light. The only plastic, except the rare use of a senko, are flukes and I use the same ones for fresh and salt water. Freshwater are rigged weedless and salt are mounted on a jig head, painted or not does not affect the catch rate.

Sam reply :

Pink or white trick worms are great in Virginia.

I have caught so many on a pink trick worm fished weightless that i can't even think of a number of bass that I have caught.

Give it a try and maybe you guys will like throwing it.

backwater4 reply :

White (aside from a spinnerbait trailer) purple and yellow.

I'm more of a green pumpkin, blue fleck, red Shad type of guy.

tholmes reply :

On 2/9/2012 at 10:17 AM, Pond fisher said:

Black

Really? As far as solid colors go, black is easily my best producer.

Give it a try!

Tom

Bass Dude reply :

On 2/9/2012 at 2:14 AM, crankbait2009 said:

for me, i'd say anything that is RED has never produced. I have caught something on everything else but red. you wont find anything in that color in my box

I think it's very interesting how one's "crap" color is someone else's go-to color. That's what makes this sport awesome, and at times frustrating!! I have caught tons of fish on a red shad worms.

My color is junebug....I use it and never catch anything on it. I've seen people in the same boat as me catch them on it and I know people that use it successfully and have all the confidence in the world in junebug, but I do not. I have them, but rarely use that color.

J Francho reply :

On 2/9/2012 at 6:49 AM, Sam said:

JF, what is over your head?

I can't make it out.

One of these:

.ghoti. reply :

On 2/9/2012 at 4:08 AM, J Francho said:

But what color haven't/won't you try? Black and white is another I've seen that I never tried.

I really can't think of color I've seen for sale that I wouldn't try. Having said that, there are many colors I simply don't buy. I've been trying to get my plastics selections under control for several years. I'm following two concepts in this effort.

Limit the number of selections within a particular type. For example, I buy Zoom Salty Super Flukes and Yum Houdini Shads. I no longer buy any other fluke-type baits. I try to follow that concept with other types, such as craws, straight worms, curl-tails worms, creatures, tubes, etc.

The other concept is to buy only a few key colors of each individual bait. Tjose are my guiding principles fro soft plastic bait selection. What colors depends on what's availble within each baits line-up. To keep it simple i want something dark blue, or black/blue; something like red shad; watermelon/red flake, pumpkin/dark flake, and that's about it. Even more simply put; blue, red, green and orange or brown.

I started this quest about four years ago. At this point, I have more plastics than I had when I started, so the effort can only be called a miserable failure.When I started I had four BPS double sided binder bags. Now I have seven.

Oh, well; the quest continues.

POPRG reply :

On 2/9/2012 at 9:39 PM, Bass Dude said:
I have caught tons of fish on a red shad worms.

same here BD,red shad is killer for me,but with the solid tomato/bright red color,i cant buy a strike?

J Francho reply :

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I started this quest about four years ago. At this point, I have more plastics than I had when I started, so the effort can only be called a miserable failure.When I started I had four BPS double sided binder bags. Now I have seven.
Oh, well; the quest continues.

Simplification? Resistance is futile.

roadwarrior reply :

Never fished "pink". Maybe I will give it a try.

J Francho reply :

Pink doesn't work on browns either....

Hyrule Bass reply :

I never use black or bright red and bright orange colors. havent used blue much either.

as for the pink/bubblegum colored plastics, theyve worked pretty good for me out of the pack i have. theyre bubblegum made by Haw River Tackle i think, and theyre a 7" floating worm. i fish them weightless on a 4/0 worm hook and the action is great on them. i give them a slight jerk and they slither through the water like a snake and sink slow, pond bass really seem to crush them...

SausageFingers reply :

Black. And for some strange reason, green pumpking without any flake. With flake, no problem.

I think its just a confidence thing for me.

Bassin_Fin@tic reply :

_{Wouln't be caught dead without solid black in just about any soft plastic around here in Florida! And that includes flukes. I'm like just about anyone else. I won't touch hunter orange worms or bright yellow. yellow is even supposed to be good in saltwater and I can't bring myself to even attempt it!}

urp reply :

White is my #1 plastic color and is strong in hardbaits.

flippin and pitchin reply :

On 2/9/2012 at 11:30 PM, J Francho said:

Pink doesn't work on browns either....

That's not fair. Soft Pink is my go to for steelhead jigs in clear water. For BASS fishing. I don't think so. I watched Jimmy Houston whack the bass on a bubble gum spinnerbait. Tried one. Bust.

bigbassctchr101 reply :

I can't remember who it is, but one of the elite guys fish a bubblegum bandit for reaction bites. I think pink and chart are awesome fluke colors for aggresive and territorial fish.

detroit1 reply :

I hear you Ghoti. I guess black or methiolate are 2 colors i won't buy. White (or mostly white) is my plastic color of choice.

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