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Location: WI | As winter drags on here in Wisconsin I begin painting lures for clients and friends. One thing that becomes very clear every year is the vast difference in what people want me to paint for them. This begs the question, what's your favorite color bait.
I guess I tend to go for the natural with a bit of extra color like glitter perch or hot white fish. |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | Once you cast black, you'll never go back ! |
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | Depends on where you fish really, but I love good 'ole black and silver, or black and white...on everything! It's funny but I think it is a pattern a lot of people don't fish other than bucktails. |
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Location: new richmond, wi. & isle, mn | dfkiii - 2/1/2014 10:26 AM
Once you cast black, you'll never go back ! . " White is the new black " |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Most of my casting is done with a firetiger suick or a black spinnerbait with a small silver blade and a large flame willowleaf blade. For trolling what we call world record perch. |
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Location: ON | Black and orange or perch.
Boring but they work
Also had good success with bluegill/pumpkinseed last year. Going to fish this colour much more this year.
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Location: Planet Meltdown | Natural perch, redbar perch, black, black / nickel worked well for me last season. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Anything with Chart in it. Or all black... but cant go wrong with anything orange |
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Location: Illinois | Tough call there. For sure depends on sky, water clarity, bait fish, etc. Biggest fish this year was caught on a OPP buck tail. Last color in the world that day I thought would work, so I guess keep an open mind and don't be afraid to switch up a lot on the good spots! That is why those guide's tackle boxes are so big!!! |
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Location: St Paul, Minnesota | I mainly fish Minnesota+Wisconsin and for all intents and purposes I feel the most comfortable throwing Perch colored lures. On clearer lakes I like a more natural perch coloration and on stained/tannic water I tend to go for louder brighter fire-tiger and sunset perch colorations. There's just some (possibly false) sense of confidence I get by having the stripes on the lure, I can't explain it. |
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Location: Sw Pennsylvania | Firetiger for me no question |
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| Black, black and white, black orange, black silver, black Char.. |
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Location: Aurora | Hot pink or pink tiger.
It's a chameleon colour in nearly all conditions and always produces.
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | If I were listed to two I'd go fire tiger and B/Orange |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | I usually throw black baits of any kind but depending on the lake, I throw black with some compliment like chartreuse, blue, or purple. BUT...I throw walleye colored pounders mostly. |
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Location: Thief River Falls MN | Black and chartruese, lotsa close seconds though |
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| I like white a lot. |
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Location: On the Niagara River in Buffalo, NY | Golden Scale Sucker! |
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Location: S.W. WI | These 2 are my favs........ Because they get chewed.
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| Any that Paul Fec paints. They are all great works of art, hard to pick just one. |
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Location: SE, WI. | Clear water or Dirty...Firetiger'!!!!! |
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| I am on st clair. after thousands of baits I wood go
9 dollar bass..perch..special perch as standards.
go east in tanic/tea colored coppers and orange.
every water system has its secrets |
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Location: Hayward, WI | Rudedog - 2/1/2014 9:11 PM
These 2 are my favs........ Because they get chewed.
Nice pictures! Looks like they were well used. How does that Big Game run? 
I tend towards walleye colored wood or rubber baits, but also like blue/silver in any type of bait. I have a blue/silver-silver Cowgirl that got eaten a LOT, and a blue/silver Curly Sue that looks like hamburger too.
With that said I don't usually get too excited about having multiple baits in different colors. |
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| I`m not so sure it really matters but prizum firetiger is a fav. |
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Location: S.W. WI | muskyrat - 2/2/2014 11:48 AM
I`m not so sure it really matters but prizum firetiger is a fav.
I will swear color makes absolutely no difference......... and then I will be so nit-picky about certain colors. Funny. |
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| Albino Firetiger or Bullhead would be my 2 favorites the last 2 years.
Jeff Hanson
madisonmuskyguide.com
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Location: Sycamore, IL | As long as a lures got some white in it I've got confidence in it. Black/white, Lemonhead, sucker and white belly perch are my go to colors...but firetiger has been a growing favorite in my boat these past few years. I have had numerous experiences trolling where one color out performs others by a large margin... |
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Location: WI | Can't go wrong throwing black & orange. Natural colors in clear water is just a given, although it's never worked for me. And I really like the flash of prism lures in stained water. |
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| All great colors, but dont forget about copper-copper or gold and orange is a great combo. |
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| Funny story. The one color of a favorite lure of mine I never liked because it didn`t catch a fish the few times I used it. My friends shunned that color for over a decade based on my less than objective opinion. Then one day a local guide friend of mine was down to that one color. He was forced to use it and caught a 49" and a 50" on it plus a bunch of smaller fish. Then I get a call out of the blue. You got any of those lures in the color you don`t like? I knew rite away something was up. Now it`s a go too color for us lol. |
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Location: Lake St.Clair | Mark Smith's wild sucker |
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Location: On the Niagara River in Buffalo, NY | Paul,That color rocks at Chautauqua Lake! |
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| LarryJones - 2/3/2014 4:59 PM
Paul,That color rocks at Chautauqua Lake!
yeah pikie is a old classic that is also one of my best at every condition |
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| Larry you gave me an old Tuff shad with the cats eyes in that color. When I got you the Marge. I still have that lure. Still have a few you gave me plus bunch of Marge baits too. That Black with chartruse strips like you got on the Marge is hot too. My buddy had a BK that color and it rocked until I hung it on a stump. |
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Location: Muskegon Michigan | I also see the differences in color choices from all over the Musky range. It is really quite amazing and I am thankful for the diverse tastes in colors. If not for that painting lures would be very boring. I actually sell very few All white or all Black lures. The most sought after pattern has been Fire Perch(Orange Belly Perch) . Looking back over our casting logs sampling about 500 fish I see most of our My wife and my fish came on some form of dark Olive and gold ( Brook Trout)or Brown and gold (Coco Perch). Trolling was close between White Belly perch and Olive Frog. Blue frog also was a close second. We did real well in 2006 on a brown barred perch we call Coco Perch and now it seems my Pikie scale perch is doing real well. But for us mostly Natural Dark olives and browns with Lots of Gold. |
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| maybe its kind of sad to pay full price for a black lure? |
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| Give me a good shad bait in all white all day long. |
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Location: new berlin | Ben modicas bluegil... Awsome color |
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| I catch a few spotties, some barred fish, but the ones that get me going are those
deep green sided dark bronze backed ski's!
oh, bait colors? they eat whatever you have confidence in
if it moves, it's food!
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