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Posts: 1405 Location: Detroit River | The must 3 have colors are Vomit, Black (or black purple), & perl (or red horse sucker). Go with the original size.  | ||
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Posts: 1405 Location: Detroit River | catchandrelease - 6/6/2012 1:00 AM Well I don't need to buy any, you can just send me a few of yours. I was thinking black/orange flake in the regular size (MTO is out of straight black, junior size is not available in any variation of black). Is there a huge difference between black/orange flake and black/purple flake. It seems meaningless, but I you know more than I do. I'd like a black variation and a white variation, but I'm trying not to spend too much and get too deep into this yet. Not a ton of places to use one of these on the waters I fish, but I have to give one a try. Mostly trying to determine which one to get if you could only get one. FYI, those Bondy's in the pic are about 2/3 of the Bondy's I own.  I usually lose at least 2 a season from snags so I need as many as I can get. As for the black w/orange flake vs. black w/purple flake or straight black I really don't think it makes much difference to fish but does have a confidence factor for the angler. Go with what you have the most confidence in. The black w/orange flake is one of the colors I've never owned because for some reason I have no confidence in any black & orange lure. Actully it's the color orange itself that I have no confidence in. The 3 different guys that I musky fish with all have the black w/orange flake & have all caught several muskies on them. My one buddy just about cried when he lost his to a snag shortly after boating his 2nd musky of the day on it. I've caught about equal with the solid black & black w/purple flake but I tend to have more confidence in the black w/purple. | ||
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Posts: 286 Location: VA | Black Pearl Five of Diamonds If you have a fish following that hangs around the boat and won't eat. It usually only takes about two jigs  . I sometimes change the blade to a hammered copper #6 too. | ||
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Posts: 1405 Location: Detroit River | catchandrelease - 6/7/2012 5:21 PM Here's the big question - When is Black better than Pearl, and when is Pearl better than Black? Is there anything more conclusive than trial and error? Generally when the water is clear with sunny skies pearl is better. Darker water with darker skies black usually is better. When the conditions are inbetween the two then vomit is usually better but vomit also produces under clear conditions. 2 years ago me & my buddies were getting them on the various black ones under all conditions. Yesterday under sunny skys & clear water the pearl caught 3 of the 4 we boated, including this 51 1/2", 24" girth.  | ||
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