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Location: Appleton,WI | what are your favorite colors to throw?
Perch,shiner,bluegill..ect...ect..
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Location: Seymour, WI | Most of my baits are either perch or firetiger, except my topwaters which are mostly black.
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Contrast is first and foremost important to me. Secondly, color is relative. In waters with stain for example, I gotta be throwing something that has some orange. |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | Oooooooooh. It all depends on the lure. Hot fluoroescent pink, Bumble Bee, Orange Crush, Parrot and #33, golden walleye, gay patriot, etc.....................................
Have fun!
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| I agree with the contrast opinion. Easier to see......in my humble opinion.
Secondly, I like flash, but it doesn't have to be a lot. And for some reason I've had better luck with gold highlights than silver highlights. Perhaps because of the forage base in the majority of the lakes that I fish.
I like florescent lures, probably Firetiger/Hot Perch, but not all the time. I find that lures that have one "hot spot" on them will produce in various waters.
But colors only catch fishermen and not fish, right? 
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Location: oswego, il | Depends on the water clarity and time of day. Clear water, I like pearl, then chartruse in lowlight. Brown water, I like chartruse, lime green and a bright white. White, yellow and firetiger in green water. |
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Location: Valparaiso , Indiana | Black, perch and white |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Here's a question; what color is the Green on your perch pattern lure in low light? How about Orange?Any compound color has to have a base color. Orange is red/yellow. Did the paint maker use a red base and add yellow to taste? In low light that lure will be 'dark'. If the paint maker used yellow and added a bit of red, in low light that lure will be 'light'. Greens are yellow and blue, and ALOT depends on which base color was used, because blue holds identity through the refraction process so well. Yellow is good, but the lure in low light can look deep grey or almost white. Is the lure base painted white and colors added over the base to look good? That lure will be a lighter contrast in low light showing up well against a dark background.
Optically brighetned colors are also effected.
Take a couple favorite baits from different builders in the same color pattern and hang them outside a window facing any direction but west. Watch the colors as the light levels drop at sunset. Some lures are dark profiles in lower light, some light. Since water RAPIDLY refracts light and turns it into heat energy, a lure 6' down will not look at all like it does up in the bright world we live in.
I have always felt the fish needs to see the lure. If the fish can see it well, and all things considered everything else is right, you get a strrike. Contrast.
I throw bright lures on sunny days, dark lures on cloudy days. The fish is looking up, so the sky and water surface is the background. Sunrise and set on clear days, that background is very light in color, so dark lures then. As the light comes up, a clear sky is very deep blue to indigo from under the water, so light lures there. A cloudy sky is white to grey, so dark lures there.
On the other hand, white and black are reflection and absorption of all the colors, and will ALWAYS contrast. If a person wanted to, one could throw all black all the time and do really well.
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Very insightful, as usual, Steve! |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | Mr. Worrall, Quit confusing us with facts and logic!
The color I have been using most is, (the secret of the orient) Red Dragon. My topwaters tend to be black. |
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| Favorite: Black, White, Red, and Yellow, especially contrasting zebra or bumble bee
Favorite Natural: Perch, Firetiger, Bluegill, Sucker, Shad, Cisco |
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| Mostly bright colors like firetiger and similar, but also parrot and redhead. Sometimes also "silvery" colors like shad and mackerel. Next season I will also try experimenting a little with glow-in-the-dark crankbaits. |
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Location: Washington, PA | Fire tiger and black for the most part. |
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Location: Pewaukee WI | Beth Blue with yellow tiger stripes and perch |
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Location: Southern W.Va. | Probably threw more yellows and orange this year with the off colored waters that I seem to be in all year. With clearer water conditions, black , purple, or maybe crappie for a little flash.
Bucktails , white seems to work for me in most conditions.
Mauser |
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