Which color do you use? 2025
All about da bass reply :
If you had to choose one color for a crankbait, a jig, a plastic or even a topwater, what color do you like to throw?
Ktho reply :
Green/brown jig, green pumpkin plastic, white topwater. Don’t throw cranks much but when I do it’s either a chartreuse pattern or a shad pattern. I’m pretty much always fishing clear water reservoirs.
All about da bass reply :
I've never caught a fish on green pumpkin where I live, the only natural color I can get bit on is a watermelon seed or watermelon red color. Far as topwater goes I throw white bottomed baits on stormy days and dark bottomed baits on sunny or blue bird days. Crankbaits, I don't go out of the bait fish colors. Jigs I like to throw a watermelon red color, or orange, purple and black, black and blue.
Ktho reply :
On 5/23/2018 at 5:05 AM, All about da bass said:I've never caught a fish on green pumpkin where I live, the only natural color I can get bit on is a watermelon seed or watermelon red color. Far as topwater goes I throw white bottomed baits on stormy days and dark bottomed baits on sunny or blue bird days. Crankbaits, I don't go out of the bait fish colors. Jigs I like to throw a watermelon red color, or orange, purple and black, black and blue.
I think I’m a little more enthusiastic about green pumpkin than others but it’s absolutely my top tier confidence color for fishing any kind of plastics when fishing water with any sort of clarity. Most of the time the lakes I’m on are 8ft+ visibility to downright gin clear.
Mike L reply :
Hardly ever throw cranks but for plastics it would be Junebug.
Not that it matters much, but if I had to choose it would be green frogs, and white for moving top water.
Mike
Log Catcher reply :
If I could only pick one color for cranks and topwaters it would be a shad color. Soft plastics would be green pumpkin. For a jig it would be PB&J.
Lead Head reply :
I fish mostly dirty water so...
Cranks- root beer chartreuse
Jigs- green pumpkin w/ orange or red
Plastics- CA 420 (black/green with a little red)
Topwater frogs- yellow bottom
WRB reply :
Bass are color vision fish, why contemplate restricting the use of colors?
Tom
Catt reply :
Topwater - Bone Orange Belly
Spinnerbait - double gold willow leaf with a white skirt
Jig-n-Craw - Black-N-Blue
Trap - Toledo Gold
Square Bills - Sexy Shad
Rogue - gold, black back, orange belly
Deep diver - shad
Plastics - that's difficult! What's hot right now is Zoom's South Africa Special
CroakHunter reply :
On 5/23/2018 at 6:52 PM, Catt said:Plastics - that's difficult! What's hot right now is Zoom's South Africa Special
Shhhhhhh!!!
I like black or white for almost all baits. Skirted jigs and spinnerbaits I can accent with the color of my trailer.
Troy85 reply :
Topwater- White
Tx Rigged Plastics- Junebug
Weightless plastics/Senkos- Watermelon Red
Jig-Blacknblue
Crankbait- Sexy Shad
scaleface reply :
For crankbait A shad color with some chartreuse in it like chartreuse sexy shad .
All about da bass reply :
On 5/23/2018 at 11:55 AM, WRB said:Bass are color vision fish, why contemplate restricting the use of colors?
Tom
Because if people are like me and can't buy every color out there to use, what do they like to use color wise, that works best. There are some baits out there that work better on certain colors, they are imitating certain things. I was just asking a simple question bro.
WRB reply :
There isn’t a simple answer, popular or favorite colors are regional;
Green pumpkin soft plastics
Bkack blue jigs
Shad color crank baits
My preference is trail and error.
Start with purple tone soft plastic
Anywhere any time jig (black-purple-brown)
pearl white or black/red crank baits
Bone top water
trout swimbaits
white-chartreuse spinner/chatter
baits
nickle spoons
Tom
NittyGrittyBoy reply :
I fish muddy/murky rivers so cranks are red craw
Most my soft plastics are junebug/black and blue variation
Topwater I'm looking for basic white
fishballer06 reply :
Topwater - Black (all black)
Moving baits - Bluegill colors
Plastics/Jig - I'm a firm believer in our bass fishing lord and savior, Green Pumpkin
Hook2Jaw reply :
White for movers, watermelon red flake for wigglers, green pumpkin for jiggers.
Choosing one color hurts my heart. I try to keep 3-5 different colors available. Minimalist with a little variation.
All about da bass reply :
I'm really surprised about green pumpkin being so popular, I guess it's time to keep fishing with it til I get bit.
Hook2Jaw reply :
On 5/24/2018 at 2:00 AM, All about da bass said:I'm really surprised about green pumpkin being so popular, I guess it's time to keep fishing with it til I get bit.
Have you tried darker shades and gotten bit? The water clarity plays into your color choice heavily.
All about da bass reply :
On 5/24/2018 at 2:41 AM, Hook2Jaw said:Have you tried darker shades and gotten bit? The water clarity plays into your color choice heavily.
Yes I have, if black and blue or junebug counts.
Lead Head reply :
I lean on green pumpkin because my personal experience has been that it works well in all water conditions. Black/blue has never been as good for me as green pumpkin in clear water. I also feel like using a solid green pumpkin jig and changing the color/profile of the trailer let's me quickly and easily imitate several different types of forage.
OkobojiEagle reply :
hmmm... I guess dark for baits fished on or near bottom and light for baits fished top to mid-depths. Whatever shade of dark or light is available when I'm buying a particular bait.
oe
long island basser reply :
Top water: Black when sunny, bone/white when cloudy.
Crankbait: bluegill.
Jig: green pumkin/orange.
Plastics: green pumkin/red .
stepup reply :
Green Pumpkin or Watermelon red for plastics.
White bottom for top water.
PB&J for jigs.
White buzz baits.
White Fluke.
I will use pumpkin seed on my worms from time to time.
thinkingredneck reply :
I fish muddy and stained water. White or white chart for moving baits, yellow on top, junebug, candybug and green pumpkin plastics, black and blue jigs. Plus about twenty other colors.
mattkenzer reply :
Roy G. Biv
At some point throughout the season I have used all colors of the rainbow.
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