What color are your soft plastics? 2024
HeyCoach reply :
Do you have a color combination in each of your soft plastics that out fishes the same color of another lure? Like watermelon red is the best trick worm color while June bug catches more of your craw dad fish?
Also, does anybody use motor oil and chartreuse anymore? That used to be a big color a few decades ago.
LCG reply :
I keep it simple. Watermelon, junebug, black and blue, black, and white. Covers the basics whether clear or dirt water conditions.
FryDog62 reply :
I have most every color except green pumpkin...
Heartland reply :
Which very large pile would you be asking about?
MN Fisher reply :
On 1/21/2019 at 1:04 PM, Heartland said:Which very large pile would you be asking about?
I don't have large piles, but I do have differing color combinations depending on what style of plastic we're talking about.
Jrob78 reply :
I use whatever colors I think best fit a specific situation. I probably use green pumpkin or some green pumpkin variant more than anything else, doesn't matter what bait.
Bluebasser86 reply :
I try to keep it pretty simple, I use green pumpkins, watermelons, black/blue or solid black, junebug, and redbug/plum apple. I tend to use the darker colors more in bigger baits and natural colors more with smaller baits.
Oregon Native reply :
Seems like different lakes have a special different color...not always concrete but I feel it's a good start. But I do believe colors are huge. Watermelon candy in a tube is my go to....but I carry a half dozen others to try at various times too. If I had a dollar for every time those bass wouldn't eat the green pumkins or black I'd be rich. Usually I don't experiment if catching fish on a special color...but sometimes it's fun and can be amazing. It happened again this last rain filled Saturday. Friend tried two or three different colors....on a drop shot....Nada. I had on a color called Bill's Money.....I had a good day....friend....not so much till he changed. Crazy.
Bankbeater reply :
The majority of my plastics are grape, green pumpkin, black/blue, black, browns, and watermelon. I've got baits in bubble gum, shad, and white but those don't get used very much.
ike8120 reply :
I am just getting back into bass fishing. I have taken the suggestion from members on this forum and try to stay with the basic colors for clear water,(light colors) and stained water,(dark colors). I also look at the colors that mimic the fish and creatures where I am fishing.
scaleface reply :
Motor Oil use to be one of my top three colors . Black grape , blue and motor oil .
Mobasser reply :
Green pumpkin is my least favorite. I like blues, grape, purple, black and some reds
Mike L reply :
Like others have said..
For all plastics I tend to use mostly Junebug, black and blue and purple.
When a change up is necessary, then it's anything with a combination of red in it.
All white for bed fishing,
Motor oil for 10"Jelly worms,
White and chartreuse spinner baits,
And only Junebug chatterbaits with blacked out blade.
Mike
Dens228 reply :
Black/Blue combo, Watermelon/Red Flake, and Watermelon/Cream Laminate.
roadwarrior reply :
It depends on my outfit, I like colors that match or contrast.
I fish with a friend who throws a 12" orange/pink worm. Sometimes he is just
killin' it, but it's too ugly for me! No doubt some days there are "special" colors
and another color on a different day. My recommendation is to fish your favorite
color and you will do just fine.
ohboyitsrobby reply :
I really only throw a few colors. A watermelon, black/blue, and plum/redbug. I'll on a rare occasion throw other colors but very rarely. Until I stop catching em with these colors it'll stay this way
scaleface reply :
Colors are funny . The first time I tried a chartreuse pumpkin jelly worm , I slayed them . Catching one after another . One angler actually trolled out to me and tried to buy some . I have only caught a handful of bass with them since .
Troy85 reply :
Rivers, I use mostly Black/Blue or Black/Red, craw style baits mostly.
Tidal marsh, I use mostly Junebug and watermelon red, either worms or baby brush hogs most of the time. When the shrimp start migrating out of the marsh in late spring and again in the fall, I'll use green pumpkin magic baby brush hogs to imitate a shrimp.
Spankey reply :
I still use motor oil and motor oil w/ chartreuse tail. Same results as pumpkin and pumpkin w/ chart. tail basically. Basic provin color. Great Power Worm color.
BassWhole! reply :
On 1/21/2019 at 12:13 PM, HeyCoach said:Do you have a color combination in each of your soft plastics that out fishes the same color of another lure? Like watermelon red is the best trick worm color while June bug catches more of your craw dad fish?
Also, does anybody use motor oil and chartreuse anymore? That used to be a big color a few decades ago.
Yes, but only because some plastics are meant to imitate baitfish and others crawfish or sunfish, and also because similar colors that might work equally well, and I find somewhere for little or no $, and I'm color blind, so I'm never really sure what color I'm fishing, luckily the fish don't care.
BassinCNY reply :
Here are my top 4 most used plastic styles and most used colors.
5" stick bait, green pumpkin or black
3.5" tube, green pumpkin
trick worm, black
3.5" paddle tail, white or green pumpkin
Team9nine reply :
Now days, I use junebug in most all plastics. If that doesn't work, I'll try junebug, and if I still can't get bit, I'll look around and tie on junebug. Makes my life really simple and always seems to work for me ????
Carolina Rig reply :
All of the colors.
J.Vincent reply :
In 2018 my most productive color regardless of lure type was Purple and also another color which is out of production.....in 2017 my most productive color regardless of lure type was Green Pumpkin and also White. So essentially......my most productive color plastic seems to change from year to year, so I try not to get hung up too much on color.
stratoliner92 reply :
Stained/Muddy - Junebug, Junebug Red
Clear - Green Pumpkin, Pumpkin Seed
Those above 90% of time I use but I've got all colors of the rainbow and more sitting around from years of buying.
Funny when I look at them now, like markers in time past???? Banana, Hot Pink, Electric Blue, Red Shad....etc
mwh33 reply :
95% of my soft plastics are:
Green pumpkin
Watermelon green
Black/blue
June bug
White
Columbia Craw reply :
176 and 252
jbsoonerfan reply :
Depends on what color shirt I am wearing.......good thing green pumpkin goes with everything.
All kidding aside, I do use a lot of green pumpkin variations (black fleck, red, blue, purple, etc) But I like black/blue combos. Sometimes it's a white fluke or Okeechobee craw brush hog.
bowhunter63 reply :
Green pumpkin or darker colors.If there chasing, shad or bluegill colors.
FishTank reply :
Black with blue flake for most water conditions
Green pumpkin black flake when black and blue flake is not working
HeyCoach reply :
What colors of vibrating jig or swim jig do y’all use?
Kyhokie reply :
Yes.
MIbassyaker reply :
Anything with the words "pumpkin", "watermelon", or "grass" in the name, and anything with green flake.
WRB reply :
When bass anglers visit or move to California they bring with them production injection molded favorite color worms and can't catch a cold.
Before the Florida LMB bass strain was introduced we only had northern strain LMB and "normal" worms work good. FLMB in our reserviors morphed into very selective color patterns and took several years to unlock the fact these bass could be caught on artifical lures. Until the color discovery nearly everyone fished with live bait.
Nothing has changed, hand poured or auto poured (Roboworms) soft plastic worms rule here and colors change seasonally or sometimes hourly. A few have become standards; oxblood with light red flake, Margrita Multilator III or MM IIIand Prople worm ( cinnamon blue neon), Lightening Shad ( smoke with charteuse blood line and silver/gold flakes, Aaron's Majic a purple cinnanom laminate. Green worms of any kind are low percentage colors in worms.....but OK in jig trailers. Black & blue at night, June bug at dusk. Colors are a big deal out west.
Tom
HeyCoach reply :
On 1/25/2019 at 11:26 AM, WRB said:When bass anglers visit or move to California they bring with them production injection molded favorite color worms and can't catch a cold.
Before the Florida LMB bass strain was introduced we only had northern strain LMB and "normal" worms work good. FLMB in our reserviors morphed into very selective color patterns and took several years to unlock the fact these bass could be caught on artifical lures. Until the color discovery nearly everyone fished with live bait.
Nothing has changed, hand poured or auto poured (Roboworms) soft plastic worms rule here and colors change seasonally or sometimes hourly. A few have become standards; oxblood with light red flake, Margrita Multilator III or MM IIIand Prople worm ( cinnamon blue neon), Lightening Shad ( smoke with charteuse blood line and silver/gold flakes, Aaron's Majic a purple cinnanom laminate. Green worms of any kind are low percentage colors in worms.....but OK in jig trailers. Black & blue at night, June bug at dusk. Colors are a big deal out west.
Tom
I didn’t realize that about the colors. Berkly used to have a hand poured worm very similar to the current Zoom Z3 Swamp Crawlers. Very small profile, supple feeling plastic, very reactive to any sort of current or shake in the rod tip. Oxblood Red for me always would produce.
I hope to see if a trick worm or Senko in that same color will produce this year.
WRB reply :
Josh Upton of Upton Customs make a 6" dragon tail (trick worm) in oxblood red flake, he also make Oldschool a motor oil with chartreuse tail for anyone looking for it.
Check out his color offerings, I also like purple thunder if Shad are what bass are targeting and black grape blue neon and, and....
Tom
the reel ess reply :
Black, black/blue, purple...and watermelon.
I usually buy a pack of black and a pack of watermelon in most things. Then I end up using up the black over and over while storing the packs of watermelon. I guess it's just the water here. I'll usually dist off the natural colors in mid-summer when bass just won't bite anything and I have to go finesse to get a few dinks to bite. Purple seems to do well with worms. In the Trick Worm I catch WAAAAY more on the bubble gum and limetreuse than any of the other colors. Naturals do well when bass are in post spawn and the aforementioned mid-summer.
thinkingredneck reply :
Some days they want something different. Who knows why. I start with Candybug or Junebug. I carry a variety. And then there are shapes, sizes, presentations. ...
ratherbfishin1 reply :
I've always felt that colors are more for the fisherman than the fish. That said I have close to all the colors of baby brush hogs, senkos, chigger craws, peca chunks, etc.
tander reply :
Over the years I have narrowed my color selection down. 90% of the time I am using green pumpkin or junebug.
Sam reply :
I have too many soft plastics with too many colors.
Sorry, don't have a count or a favorite color although I do like Junebug, Watermelon, and Green Pumpkin with Black Flake the most, depending on water conditions.
whitwolf reply :
On 1/22/2019 at 12:24 AM, reason said:I'm color blind, so I'm never really sure what color I'm fishing, luckily the fish don't care.
@reason I too am color blind. It makes for interesting times.
I usually throw Black, Black and Red, Red Shad, Watermelon, or whatever strikes me that day. I have soft plastics in a ton of colors and most don't get used. I'm a firm believer in location and most of the time color doesn't matter.
MAN reply :
How do the bass know when to stop biting color "A" and start biting color "B"?
For instance...to stop biting Bubble Gum and start biting Margarita Multilator III? And how much of this change is really the fisherman and not really the fish?
Log Catcher reply :
Going back to the OP I love June bug on worms but I can't catch anything on June bug Baby Brush Hogs. Watermelon Seed is my best color for craws.
CrankFate reply :
Orange with glitter, Black, blue w/glitter, silver/white, green pumpkin, chartreuse tails, all white, all chartreuse, grey/white. That’s what’s in my current box of tricks (a six pack cooler that I use in place of a tackle box). But I use others.
I/MBasser reply :
On 1/25/2019 at 9:46 AM, HeyCoach said:What colors of vibrating jig or swim jig do y’all use?
Same philosophy as worms. Black/blue variants, green pumpkin variants and shad colors. If you're really into colors you can mix it up with trailers.
WRB reply :
If you ever have the experience when bass are on the specific color, your boat partner has it and you don't you will understand color makes a difference.
Being color blind like Aaron Martens and others on this site doesn't mean they can't see colors, they see them differently or can't distinguish between a few colors, as I understand color blindness. I had a fishing partner who was color blind and kept all his soft plastics in original bags to read what color his worms were because he wanted to know what color was working. If either of us started catching bass we always shared what color was working.
You can use 1 or 2 colors and catch bass if the bass are biting that color. You may never know if other colors are working a lot better if you believe it doesn't matter.
Tom
ChrisD46 reply :
Worms , Craws & Creatures : Green Pumpkin , Watermelon Red , Watermelon Candy , Junebug , Black & Blue , Plum
Shad & Bluegill Imitators : Pearl White , Shad , Green Pumpkin , Black & Blue
Catt reply :
I've seen times color made no difference at all
I've seen times color made all the difference
I've seen times I had constantly colors thought out the day
lo n slo reply :
On 1/27/2019 at 1:57 AM, WRB said:If you ever have the experience when bass are on the specific color, your boat partner has it and you don't you will understand color makes a difference.
Being color blind like Aaron Martens and others on this site doesn't mean they can't see colors, they see them differently or can't distinguish between a few colors, as I understand color blindness. I had a fishing partner who was color blind and kept all his soft plastics in original bags to read what color his worms were because he wanted to know what color was working. If either of us started catching bass we always shared what color was working.
You can use 1 or 2 colors and catch bass if the bass are biting that color. You may never know if other colors are working a lot better if you believe it doesn't matter.
Tom
spot on. i failed both color blindness tests when i joined the Marines, red/green and blue/green. it’s the varying shades of those colors is what gives me problems. it can be frustrating at times.
WRB reply :
I forgot that my son is color blind but he can tell the difference between red and green traffic lights.
There are a few advantages to being color blind. For example my son can see bed fish or bass in the water as they contrast from the natural bottom colors, he says they look like litghter iridescent green and stand out.
I have always labeled my soft plastics so I can read the bags or boxes at night easier and for my color blind son and other fishing partners.
Tom
BassThumb reply :
Hard to narrow it down because each type of soft plastic bait has different colors that produce. For example, what works for a 7" plastic work may not be ideal for a Senko skipped under a dock or a swimbait used as a swimjig trailer.
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