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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | I've always loved the Top 3, Top 5, etc. questions so indulge me:
If you could only use three colors on all your hard/rubber baits (not bucktails/spinnerbaits, etc) for the rest of your life, what are you picking?
I'm going with:
-Old School Tenn Shad - the flash is what get's 'em
-All Black - when someone can tell me why I shouldnt use all black topwaters, I'll listen.
-Primarily gold flash with black.
Kills me to NOT put black/orange in there but the Gold makes me feel better.....no super hot colors but Tenn Shad is pretty bright with the flash. |
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Posts: 1396
Location: Brighton CO. | 1. white
2. perch pattern
3. black.
So many others! |
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Posts: 32886
Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Black
White
Gray
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Posts: 624
Location: S.W. WI | Walleye prizm
Gold/orange
Black/Chartreus |
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Posts: 8782
| 1. Black
2. White
3. Black with white bars
And just for the record, I think all black lures should be white on the back so you can see them coming in choppy water, cloudy days/evenings etc. |
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Posts: 1279
| ^^^^ You beat me to it. |
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Posts: 759
| Can I go with color patterns? 1) Sucker, 2) Cisco/whitefish, 3) Carp. kdawg |
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Posts: 1396
Location: Brighton CO. | Glow tape, orange tape, or glitter on top not for fish but for me. (It helps to see what your lure is doing and where it's at.)
And yes you can fell it to a point but. The color on top helps. |
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Posts: 393
| Black, perch and a bright contrasting color combination with chartreuse in it. |
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Posts: 864
Location: NE Ohio | firetiger, shad, and firetiger |
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Posts: 416
Location: MN | Three isn't even limiting! Almost every bait I own (including bucktails) falls into these categories:
- black
- white
- chartreuse (firetiger, lemonhead, lemontail, etc take your pick)
I use solid black during daylight most of the time, at least until late fall. After dark I used to lean harder on bright colors, and post-turnover I used to go white almost all the time, but over the last couple years I've done well enough on black that it really wouldn't bother me to just run solid black on everything 100% of the time. |
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Posts: 388
Location: Northern Illinois | 1. Black
2. Gold metallic
3. Yellow |
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Posts: 580
| I pick colors based on what I can see best in the water. Baits with a dark/black top are most often tough for me to pick up, so I don't use those much, if at all, these days unless it is a topwater. I honestly don't think color makes a lick of difference, although for baits that I like, I'll have one of each with a white, chart. and orange belly. |
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| If you looked in my boxes, you would see primarily black/red, perch and fire tiger.
But, things can change. Last week on Eagle I caught two nice fish using a metallic green bucktail the guide lent me, and messed up the figure 8 on a big follow. He said he just started using that color last year and now has about a dozen bucktails in that color, both showgirls and Spankys. One Spanky has almost no color left on the blades and the tinsel is over 50% gone but it is still catching fish.
I am going to pick one up the next time in The Musky Shop. Don't know if it will work on the stained water I fish but will try. |
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Posts: 1716
Location: Mt. Zion, IL | Shad or white
Ball licker/black and orange
Walleye |
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Posts: 7
Location: Springfield, IL | Silver Cisco
White
Walleye |
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Posts: 2270
Location: SE, WI. | Yellow/ sunny days Copper/ partly cloudy days Black/ cloudy days  |
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Posts: 75
| Nice topic. I'd go with:
1. Perch
2. Orange tiger(or orange firetiger)
3. Cisco |
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Posts: 1144
Location: Minnesota. | #1----Wild Sucker
#2---- Thriller
#3---- Black!
In case ya couldn't guess...Yeah, it's troubling indeedy...............:))
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Posts: 580
| Several of my best baits essentially have no color left on them, having been chewed many times, yet continue to produce. Hence, my thinking that the original color is/was superfluous. |
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Posts: 22
| 3? Just give me pink. |
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Posts: 268
Location: Central Pennsylvania | Black
Gold with foil
Chartreuse (firetiger or like a bright frog) |
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Posts: 57
| White
Black
Crome
We make too much out of color, really. Fish what you have confidence in. |
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Posts: 166
Location: Alexandria, MN | White/prism
Silver/Chrome
Black (topwater) |
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Posts: 303
| I primarily fish dirty waters in South Dakota - so keep that in mind. My tackle box is a little goofy color wise when I head to Minnesota to fish.
1) Firetiger
2) Some form of white/purple
3) Some type of hot orange/black combo |
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Posts: 221
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | Bucktails
Black skirt gold blades
Purple skirt gold blades
Black skirt one Chartruse black be black blade
Topwaters
Black black black
Rubber/jerks/cranks
Flashy gold like a pro walleye bulldawg
Black
White or lemon tail
For jerk baits and cranks though my favorite color is hookrash, seems like the more beat up a bait gets the better it works. I have a 7” slammer with 15 fish on it that started out as a golden shiner and now is majority white With 1/4” deep grooves from the hooks, still works better than any bait I own in the spring.
I really try to put as little thought into color as I can. If a bait has a glow to it in that water clarity than it’s going to work, but in the last few years I’ve found the less I care about color the better I do. |
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