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| Id like to here everybodys opinion on when black is the color to be throwing...Night/Day.....Clear/ Stained water...ect. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | night day morning evening afternoon dawn dusk sunrise sunset moonrise moonset moon overhead moon underfoot in the rain cloudy sunny overcast cold warm muggy hot dry |
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| So what your trying to tell me is......Anytime |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | black is beautiful = yes |
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| I like solid black on overcast days. Black hair and black blades on bucktails in particular. |
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| And it's pretty much a stained and clear lake color? |
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Location: syracuse indiana | yes anytime, black always puts fish in the boat |
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Location: where the fish are... | saw a mid 30's fish demolish a black bait today |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | +1
Anytime. |
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| I was going to say "wherever the water is wet", but Sled's answer will work too.
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| Yes, black is the ultimate muskie color anytime. But definetly on overcast skies and after dark, the black skirt black blade deal is hard to beat. |
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Location: Chicago | Black by far covers the gamut in terms of producing anytime anywhere. Flat out produces the best silhouette to fool a fish. While I have my own preferences at certain times for hot colors or black and hot mixes they never give the confidence I get when I need to reach down into the box for a new tool. You can always rely on black
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Location: South East Wisconsin | Black is good! |
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| Technically black is the absence of color. It absorbs all other "colors" of light therefore giving it the appearance to us as being black. It makes black more consistent across the spectrum of light you might have from day to day but there are situations when an orange surface bait will give a clearer profile than a black bait will but in other situations orange will blend in more. Black crosses all types of days...sunny, overcast, day, night, etc. but before I simply use black I will fine tune what I am throwing based on the conditions first and that more often than not leads me away from black. If sky conditions are constantly changing and I simply don't want to be changing baits every 3 minutes as the sun ducks behind clouds then I'll stick with black as it remains consistent. |
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| Black is always the repaint of choice, if you have a bait you like, but are suspicious the color sucks.
But I wouldn't overthink it.
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | You know what they say...Once you go black, you won't go....... 
The Ram Jam song of "Black Betty" gets sung quite often in my boat. Black IS beautiful. |
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Most of the time |
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Location: where the fish are... | not a bad way to start the season, but thats right your catching fish right now..... right? |
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Location: Money, PA | For me, black has been a good color for casting (jerkbaits mainly) but terrible and pretty much unproductive for trolling. I have NO clue why! |
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Location: On the water | I like black baits and I can not lie.. |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | Always bet on BLACK. |
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| once you go black you wont go back |
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| For my home area, Chautauqua lake, black has been consistently the best color in a shallow running casting bait. Have always liked black tails with silver plated or chartreuse blades, flat black, red throat jerk baits. Have met, known, many experienced musky fishermen, mainly casters, over the past 40 yrs. around here and black is overwhelmingly their 1st choice for color.
For open water trolling around here, natural finish baits seem to produce best. Perch, pike, golden shiner, silver flash, rainbow, (the old creek chub colors), are very good. My personal favorite for trolling is perch with a pale orange belly. If you're into trolling shallow over or along weed lines with say spinner baits, or jerk baits, IMO, cant go wrong with black. |
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| Black is always the most visible color. |
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Location: Houlton, WI | In my experience black is a great color for clear water |
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Location: Central Wi. | I've said it before, even your boat motor will run better if you paint it black. |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | every day that ends in Y  |
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| White is the new black. |
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Location: Chicago | Funny for years my favorite jackpots were spook and blue shad. I've been wanting that blue shad color pattern in a heavy slosher type WTD for a while now. |
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | Allot of black in the boxes here. On almost every type of bait I have I have a black one too. |
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| maybe this is why the mini medusa only comes in two colors one is all black and the second is half black! |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | I got one of the new Pro Mag Dawgs today in "Dark Baitfish"... awesome color for sure! |
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| I agree with Lee, white can be very effective too.
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| One more thing... I am a firm believer that color is the least important factor- to the fish at least.
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| Mine medussa comes in 5 colors if you check Musky tackle online. |
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| John - 4/24/2010 7:21 PM
One more thing... I am a firm believer that color is the least important factor- to the fish at least.
John
If that's the case, then you must only have one color in your tackle box. Why bother buying more than one color of any bait if color is the least important factor and of little consequence? What's the most important factor, John? Bait size? Action? I'm perplexed. |
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| Guest - 4/24/2010 7:34 PM
Mine medussa comes in 5 colors if you check Musky tackle online.
ah yeah your right, that's o.k. I was gonna get a black anyway lol |
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| When all else fails throw black!
When someone tells you they have a secret bait you know it's got to be black.
Good Fishing,
Scott M.
P.S. Take a variety of black baits on your next trip.
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Location: On the water | Also black works great on topwaters. |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | +1
Black topwater baits are definitely a go-to bait for me. |
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| Guest - 4/24/2010 7:59 PM
John - 4/24/2010 7:21 PM
One more thing... I am a firm believer that color is the least important factor- to the fish at least.
John
If that's the case, then you must only have one color in your tackle box. Why bother buying more than one color of any bait if color is the least important factor and of little consequence? What's the most important factor, John? Bait size? Action? I'm perplexed.
Guest:
The most important factor in my opinion is location. And no I don't have only one color bait in my tacklebox... I just voiced my opinion that color is the least important factor in catching muskies. If you believe otherwise that is your opinion- which you are entitled to.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | PSYS,
I also feel color is not the most important factor when considered the way most Muskie anglers look at it.
Black is always visible, and is, as such, always effective.
Since color defines contrast and contrast defines how well the fish sees the lure, however, I look to offer the most contrast possible, therefore opting for the old axiom 'dark day, dark lure, light day, light lure' unless fishing jigs.
If you look in my tackle box, you will see most of my favorites have black somewhere in the pattern.
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Location: APPLETON, WI | Thanks, you guys! |
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| Well put there Steve. That is a good theory, that I do agree with.
Edited by 50"skie 4/25/2010 5:36 PM
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| LT:"White is the new black."
Didn't we do a thread on that last year, Lee? |
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Location: lake x...where the hell is it? | it dont matter what color it is as long as its black!!! |
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