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| Do custom lure colors (or colors that have been DQ) help you catch more and bigger fish or just fishermen? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I buy customs because they look cool. I'm pretty sure the fish don't care. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Prolly both. m |
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Location: PA Angler | When I make some flies or plastics I make them with all kinds of colors. I think that sometimes if it’s out of the ordinary the fish will hit it better as it’s something that they don’t see often and is new. Nobody wants to throw a lure that somebody else has just tried in front of you. |
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| I have a lot of custom lures too. And if I was a Muskie a lot of people would have pictures of me. I have some smaller non Muskie lures that no longer have paint thanks to the Pike, Bass and Walleyes that have beaten the heck out of them. Action trumps color! But I like buying cool looking stuff! |
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Location: Plover, WI | I'm partial to custom colors. That said, its more for the fishermen but some custom colors really produce! |
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| A lot of main stay stuff started out as someone's custom. |
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| If I wasn't so attracted to pretty colors, my whole arsenal would be black, white, or black and white. |
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| Custom colors keep me more interested and involved in the cast/retrieve/8/repeat game. So yes, I would say it catches more fish. |
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Location: Ludington, MI | I'll take custom colors and you can have all the nonsensical polyrazamatazz metal-on-metal sounds. |
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Location: MN | It is possible that in some situations a custom color might be more productive - but to me it is way down the importance hierarchy of presentation factors on a given cast, which may look something like:
1) general type of bait/presentation (bucktail, pull bait, hopping bait, topwater, glider, etc)
2) speed, depth, cadence of retrieve
3) broad color characteristics (dark, light, contrasting)
4) specifics of bait within category (8s vs 10s, dawg vs. dussa, CBJ vs. pacemaker, etc)
5) color specifics?
I think it's pretty clear 1 and 2 are the most important most of the time. 3 and 4 could be potentially be interchanged, or maybe 4 is above 2 in some cases. Custom color vs similar non-custom color is well below all of those IMO. And that is just considering a single cast. If you consider the broader picture including boat speed, location, time management, choosing the lake and time to fish, etc. the super specifics of a color are just so low that for most of us, it is a waste of attention to focus on them.
How would you even be able to tell if it made a difference? Maybe if you are a guide that is on the water 6 days a week with 3 lines in the water you have enough of a handle on all the variables that you can play with something like that. |
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| Color matters, some situations more than others. Custom colors can be lake,region or situation specific and in that case can be a better tool. |
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| bturg - 9/14/2022 11:22 AM
Color matters, some situations more than others. Custom colors can be lake,region or situation specific and in that case can be a better tool.
100% this |
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Location: NW WI | In the world of customs the #1 pro custom point in my opinion is if it offers a reflective option that standard shelf does not. Be that translucent rubber revealing Holo film, glitter/flake impregnated rubber, metallic paints,etc. |
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| The last couple years I've bought a lot of customs and they have not been on a real Muskie trip up north and I was thinking about others I bought and I have Thorne Bothers extra weighted Suick in a custom Crappie color this was not left my home in 20 years what a mistake next trip north after turn over this some be one of the first I throw. The first I throw is Blue Eddie and I forgot it was a R&H custom because it has blueish green glitter on top some times in the fall all three of us would be throwing this lure and it was lake a school of Cisco's in the water and we all caught Muskies. Then you have lure company's that change colors of pattens. Musky Mania has three colors of Walleye over the years and I've done the best of the first pattern of course. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | It has been said, "If you think color doesn't matter, just ask the guy holding the net." m |
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