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Location: Athens, Ohio | Heading for the northwoods, wondering what bait colors work best in the tannic colored waters? thanks, m |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Colour catches fishermen action catches fish. When I fished inland stained water I was partial to firetiger and jailbird mainly because I could see it but #*^@ed if they didn`t work as well or better after the paint was gone. After switching to the gin clear waters of Lake Ontario and the Larry I continued catching fish on the same colours. No manufacturer is going to tell you you don`t need 20 colours . Black works everywhere .
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Location: Chisholm, MN | horsehunter - 9/9/2020 8:33 AM
Colour catches fishermen action catches fish. When I fished inland stained water I was partial to firetiger and jailbird mainly because I could see it but #*^@ed if they didn`t work as well or better after the paint was gone. After switching to the gin clear waters of Lake Ontario and the Larry I continued catching fish on the same colours. No manufacturer is going to tell you you don`t need 20 colours . Black works everywhere .
If it moves it`s food
As much as I hate to admit it, I think you are right. I know some very smart and great fisherman that wouldn't agree with me but it's a self fulfilling prophesy. The bite you get is on what you are throwing. How do you know if a certain color would have worked better or worse? It's impossible to tell. Put another color on and stop catching fish? Well what if the fish stopped biting when you switched colors? And then started biting again when you switched back? |
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| What those ^^^^ guys said. But when you look back at history, fluorescent colors,firetigers, and a forgotten color, copper. Copper was the most popular color on the flowages back in the day. Kdawg |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | It`s a lesson I wish I had learned hundreds of lures ago ( I console myself by saying most came off raffle tables ). We are all very vulnerable in the winter and show season and like crows we will pick up anything shiny. A few years back I got a young guy started and gave him a milk case with 25 pieces of downspout and 25 lures from my basement telling him it was all he would ever need. Well you know how long that lasted the following year he had 2 full Lakewoods . I told him to pick 6 lures and put those trunks back in your truck were only going out for 5 hours. When casting I`m comfortable with a suick on one rod and a spinnerbait on another. When trolling with 2 rods I take about 10 and use about 5 with a Hose Fatty never being out of the water. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Thanks for the insights. I work jerkbaits a lot and I'd just like to be able to see them in that tea color water. m |
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| If you like jerk baits, you only need three colors.
Light: (white, yellow, chartreuse)
Dark: (black, green, purple)
Light-Dark Contrast: (jailbird, perch, etc.)
If you want to see the lure, choose the light one or the contrast one.
Pretty much the same for any category of lure. |
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| The lake I live on is very dark stained with tanin. Fire tiger seems to have slight edge, but for trolling my best luck has come with white/silver baits. In rubber, gold/walleye and black/red have been the best for me and guests. Black and red works well in top water as well. I do agree that color is over rated as far as attracting fish but the orange is helpful for seeing the bait, in particular in the figure 8. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | Have way more then I need, but Black, flourescent tones or white. Plus the ones stated above. |
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| I agree that lure colors are there for lure manufacturers to reel fisherman in and make money. Do some of these new color combinations work, of course they do, but some of the color patterns that are out now are overkill and way over the top if you ask me. Why not stick with colors that have proven over and over again to catch fish, such as black, black/nickel, walleye and the universal color pattern, perch. If a fish see's/hears/feels it, and he's hungry, believe me, he'll go get it. Just my two cents. Good luck! |
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| I think the key to the OP's question was seeing the bait. To give you an idea how hard that can be on the chain where I live, I have a Cowgirl in bright hunter orange and at times you can't see it in the figure 8 if it is a foot down. My favorite glide is a Phantom soft tail. The bait is perch but the tail is orange and I can see the tail a long time before I see the bait body. |
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Location: E. Tenn | Brass copper, and black blades, black, brown with some yellow and/or green for bucktails, and natural colors for hard baits. "White belly perch" is a very popular scheme in the Northwoods for good reason. Sherbet was a quite popular color in bulldawgs a number of years ago, as was goldie...Visibility in the chain I fish up here are mostly in the 3-6 ft. range, with a tannin stain....JMHO, and observations
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Just so happens my McPerch muskie treats has an orange tail on it now. Might just solder the StayLok to it. thanks! |
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| I fish a lot of stained water and I like the bright colors like orange and chartreuse because I can see it easier. On some of my baits with dark backs I take some bright orange reflective tape and tape a strip of it on top the lure to make it easier to see. It really makes a big difference. |
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Location: E. Tenn | ToddC - 9/10/2020 11:19 PM
I fish a lot of stained water and I like the bright colors like orange and chartreuse because I can see it easier. On some of my baits with dark backs I take some bright orange reflective tape and tape a strip of it on top the lure to make it easier to see. It really makes a big difference.
I'm guessing that's why hellhounds have that white on the flat part of the head..
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Location: Harrisburg, PA | miket55 - 9/10/2020 11:31 PM
I'm guessing that's why hellhounds have that white on the flat part of the head..
I was wondering why that was there. |
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