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Location: Houlton, WI | Hi, ive been wondering your opinions on this. Overall, out of all baits, which color have you had the most success on? What colors do you recomend for different conditions? What colors do you recomend for crankbaits, swimbaits and topwater? |
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | It is such a broad question - one could write a book. I would say some overall great colors pretty much regardless of the water conditions are Black/orange, golds, solid black, silvers. Black/Orange has produced fish on every body of water I have caught fish on - Even saltwater, it has been one of my go to colors. |
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Location: madison wisconsin | Black/orange no matter what the water looks like. |
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| id say black, or any type of cisco pattern. |
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| I'd agree completely with 619musky! |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Black/Orange, Has out done any other colors for me.
Chartruse/White has also worked, and Gold in some baits seem to shine at times
Cisco color on some lakes is hard to beat.
Such a broad question with no wrong answers.
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Location: Southern W.Va. | Maybe I'm different but my go to color has been more of a walleye or smallmouth bass color, works for me. I've not had much luck with a cisco or shinner type of color. My #2 color would be a bright color like firetiger.
For what it's worth,
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Location: The desert | mnmusky101 - 5/15/2009 10:57 PM
Hi, ive been wondering your opinions on this. Overall, out of all baits, which color have you had the most success on? What colors do you recomend for different conditions? What colors do you recomend for crankbaits, swimbaits and topwater?
I've been contemplating the meaning of life recently, the answer to this question would be shorter than the dissertation you're looking for here. |
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Location: ne53 | Sucker, black/orange, black/red |
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| Jsandag, I agree you could write a book on this subject. I disagree about an overall color regardless of the water. In the winter Ive been a mate offshore for 18 years. We use all plastics. Say January in panama black/purple dark colors rule, while in cabo pink is the color in January. Spent 5 seasons in new caledonia January blue/white...April however it's all muted earth tones. IMO; color is extremely important for success. Especially for the ones that make a living fishing. The water, position of the sun/moon, water depth,etc. Only the fish and god no for sure. Now Muskie that's a different animal. They make a black marlin look brainless. IMO the musky is the smartest, toughest fish that swims to figure out.... That's way we love them. Color is very very very situational, that's why I chase muskie for sport and marlin for silver. All we can do is keep experimenting, toss colors and hope Neptune is good to us....... |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | Of the standard colors, golden shiner black, orange, and gold, or all black.
Of the custom color, the red dragon (the secret of the orient!) red and tan. |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | black on topwater. For crankbaits and gliders im starting to like holoform, like in a sucker pattern. Jailbird is cool, gets some attention. |
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | Azuler - 5/16/2009 9:15 AM
Jsandag, I agree you could write a book on this subject. I disagree about an overall color regardless of the water. In the winter Ive been a mate offshore for 18 years. We use all plastics. Say January in panama black/purple dark colors rule, while in cabo pink is the color in January. Spent 5 seasons in new caledonia January blue/white...April however it's all muted earth tones. IMO; color is extremely important for success. Especially for the ones that make a living fishing. The water, position of the sun/moon, water depth,etc. Only the fish and god no for sure. Now Muskie that's a different animal. They make a black marlin look brainless. IMO the musky is the smartest, toughest fish that swims to figure out.... That's way we love them. Color is very very very situational, that's why I chase muskie for sport and marlin for silver. All we can do is keep experimenting, toss colors and hope Neptune is good to us.......
The question was "Favorite" not the "Best"
I wasn't making a general call - especially about offshore fishing - I agree every place fresh or salt has it's goto colors - I'm just saying that BLK/ORG has been a slayer for me over the years. I have fished, worked, and been a dock rat at offshore sites since I could hold a rod, and used every color skirt imaginable. And true, every color has it's time and place. In the ocean, many times it is matching the forage - If the Black fin Tuna are in migration off Cat Cay Black/purple/blue is going to be the dynamo - if it's schoolie dolphin time in Abaco - all of the Yellow/Blue/Green dorado patterns are going to get the billfish going. If it's red tide off Mazatlan trolling the edges of the blue water with pink, red, or orange is going to get the nod. It is all relative. It is situational - but when something works it works. And boy does BLK/ORG work!
Edited by Jsondag 5/17/2009 11:36 PM
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| favorite means best. And like I said its "very very vey situational" . So for overall favorite color, save it for your Tommy Bahama you wear to grandma's....red tide in Mazatlan, I'd stay on shore and play with some "chichas" |
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | Mazatlan for two weeks - 10 of those days were poisoned with "Red Tide" - We went a little over 30 miles off the coast until we found the edge. Which was basically a night to day clarity change lined by a 4ft band of jellyfish as far as one could see. As soon as we got out of it, we put the lines out and trolled along side the garbage - It wasn't even a mile before the first sail pulled the right flat. We ended up with 5 sails and one blue that we estimated at just over 400 lbs.
It was a blessing that we found the blue water.
The Chica's were for the night - We were there to catch fish. |
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| I fish a southern shad based resevour. We have big river hearing, gizzard shad, and more, but my best colors have been walleye type colors, shades of brown/tan.
Go figure. |
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Location: Sw Pennsylvania | firetiger seems to catch fish for me no matter where i'm at...solid black is also a favorite of mine |
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Location: Hartford, Iowa | Black/orange, and black/green or chartruese have been good to me on the limited number of waters I have fished. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | If I only could have three colors for the rest of my life for all lure types........Orange, Black or Gold IMO for general pike/musky fishing.
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Location: Eagan, MN | I'm kinda partial to jailbird myself. I don't really know if the fish care for it any more than other colors, but I think it looks really cool!!! You don't see any bass or walleye lures in jailbird. |
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Location: c.wis | black/orange-black/silver-black/gold |
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Location: Oswego, IL | My colors:
Black/Orange
White/Orange
Black/Silver
White/Silver
White is pretty deadly too! |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | jpine - 5/16/2009 8:41 AM
Sucker, black/orange, black/red
Black/Silver was left out but these make up the pulse of a muskies heartbeat!
Edited by Sam Ubl 5/27/2009 11:56 AM
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