Help with colors!
FD
chart"?
MoBassFisherman
Structure?, Present Baitfish? All of these factors effect choice. Not
necessarily in that order. Some people do use a color chart, but basically
all that pertains to is that it allows you to chose the most "visible" bait
for water depth and clarity.
MoBassFisherman
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"FD" <fdw...@frontiernet.net> wrote in message
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Huck Palmatier
colors,
FD
bass...@my-deja.com
I never heard of any generic "color chart". There was something called
a Color-C-Lector many years ago that never really was proven to work
under actual angler experience.
It was created by a great bass researched, Dr. Loren Hill. Basically,
it identified what colors were most visible to fish under certain
conditions...but it never worked in the field.
If what you are looking for are color selection strategies for bass,
please may I suggest you read my article at:
http://www.fishing-tackle.org/bass-fishing-reels.shtml
It tells all my color strategies for picking soft plastic lures.
Hope it helps.
regards, Bassdozer
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Before you buy.
FD
Great site! It answered alot of questions i had about lures & lure
colors Now I just gotta get my box re-organized!!! Seems to me that
after the
basics of finding the damn fish,then its only as tough as you make it!!!
Thanks again
FD
Yea,thats what i been doin. Works pretty good to. Just looking for
insight.Afterall,ya never know it all!!!!!!
Thanks
jim crowley
However, pick several colors for clear water,say green pumpkin,
pumpkinseed and maybe smoke. Stained water,black purples and brown.
Combinations of all these will occur the more your out on the water.
Please, dont get hung up on color as much as how you present the lure,
the location of the fish and seasonal pattern. You can have the right
color and be in the wrong area and it won't do you any good. You'll get
a lot of answers from people who have their favorites they have found
out on the water. Remember, in clear water you want the lure to blend in
and look natural. In stained water it helps if the bait can be seen
better. If you get to concerned with colors,you'll have a box full of
baits and not be sure which applies to what. Get a book by in-fisherman
on bass.They are a trusted source on this tricky subject. good luck
JIM CROWLEY PROMOTIONS
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Bloomington,Illinois
bass...@my-deja.com
correct address where you may read it is at:
http://www.bassdozer.com/articles/color_blowout.shtml
Yungbass
want as long as it is purple and spinnerbaits and plugs are chartruce and/or
firetiger. Been working for me for a long time.
yungbass
tran frank
>>
As far as N.Y. fishing goes, no major problems here!!!!!
<<
Well, maybe just one - the dreaded Puddy Tat <g> =8^>
-tran
STANLEY WATSON
PROS : This book should help you out in more ways one.
" GONE FISHIN " [ ABE ] WATSON
GL3Loomis
in mind, dark or bright colors in stain or muddy water. Clear or natural
colors in lightly stained or clear water, and you will do fine. What is
important is two things: presentation and confidence. Put ten professional
anglers on the same body of water, with all of them using the same type of
lure, and I will guarantee almost all of them will be using a different
color lure and all will be catching fish. What is important is your
confidence in the lure you are using and the presentation you chose to use.
Want to learn more how the Pro's fish in a tournament, go to
http://home.att.net/~GL3Loomis/index.html No crap, no false promises, just
good ole advice to help you become a better tournament angler.
jasonml
It's all about confidence really. But, for the record, and in regards
to worms, I'm confident in Pumpkinseed in clear to lightly stained
water. Any other time I through I throw something black.
jasonml
jim crowley
JIM CROWLEY PROMOTIONS
www.jimcpromotions.com
Bloomington,Illinois
bass...@my-deja.com
people that color doesn't matter to you when you fish, or to tell
people one color is not better than another.
Color does matter at times very much, at other times it matters
less...but color is never unimportant. Color is LESS important to a
weekend fishermen because the difference between 10 or 12 bass doesn't
matter as much. However, the difference between 10 or 12 bass can be
critically important within a tournament, so color is more of a factor
to be considered in competitive fishing than in casual fishing.
There are really no hard and fast rules for color. You will often here
people say to use dark or bright colors in stain or muddy water, and
clear or natural colors in lightly stained or clear water. However, I
have scored well on dark or bright colors in all kinds of clear water,
and I've scored heavy with clear, white and natural colors in all kinds
of stained, muddy and dark water.
Because there are no hard and fast rules, the only thing to do is to
use a color "search" plan, just like anglers use certain lure types
(lipped crankbaits, spinnerbaits, rattling crankbaits, topwaters) as
part of a plan to find the most highly receptive fish in this area at
the moment...an angler should also be aware of color plans to search
for and tune into the correct colors that are receptive to fish, right
here, right now at this moment. My article
(http://www.bassdozer.com/articles/color_blowout.shtml) reveals some of
these color plans to you. Please do not read it and think you must
follow all these plans to the letter...there is not enough time in the
day to do that! You can often take shortcuts to color selection....what
worked last time, other hunches to shorten the selection process.
When you say that ten tournament anglers will all be scoring with ten
different colors...this may be true. It is likely also true that these
ten tournament anglers were using ten totally different types of lures,
and all catching too. Does this mean that any color, make, model, size
of lure works everywhere, every time equally as well as any other? NO.
Fact is that only one of them will win the tournament by catching more
fish than the other nine. Of course, presentation, location,
biocyclical period, comprehension of the fish's reaction...so many
other factors go into outfishing the other nine. Point I want to make
here is that the correct use of a particular lure in a particular color
is very often one of the contributing factors which allowed one
tournament angler to win and nine other anglers to not win.
Hope it helps.
Regards, Bassdozer
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GL3Loomis
If your color plan works for you, and you have confidence in it, GREAT!
loudmo...@webtv.net
action and depth have way more to do with CRANKBAITS than color but with
soft plastic baits I do not agree. How do you explain the color "BUBBLE
GUM" its neither a dark or natural color its a REACTION COLOR!!! This
color works great on all kinds of soft plastics and in all sorts of
water color. Anyone?
S & C Clark
------- This post is meant to be tongue in cheek and humorous---------
I have to agree with your statement. BUT I have to say this I can not
support this statement even though I believe it. LOL? I have found quite a
few
hot spots on my home lake. (About forty sq. mi. of water.) I know where
"they" are. I can go to "them" and get fish. I know that if I am not getting
a
bite within twenty minutes to change the color. I don't believe color
matters to them but they do????? I have an offering color order and when
they choose what color "they" like they just keep on biting. Naw I don't
believe in color, but I'm starting to even though it doesn't matter. LOL
Now just to be a smart @ss ;-) Here's a bet,....We go fishing and make the
usual side bets for first,largest, most, only $100.00 for each. Now I will
give you the front seat and I'll take the back, I trust you, you seem to be
gentleman enough through your posts. I will take my colors and tackle boxes
(actually only one, a drill case) and you can take only your "confidence" in
one color......Well I think you know where I'm going with this.... what
color
would you take??? Do you have only one lure in your tackle box in one
color....I don't believe that. Oops sorry!
IMHO Fish have selected what color they want time and time again. I still
can't
understand it but they do, so why fight it. Oh just incase you're wondering
I do have the confidence and I do have the presentation part of the equation
down pat too. Am I Dr. Doolittle?
--
Steve from Stony
GL3Loomis <GL3L...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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GL3Loomis
THAT!
Now, I did not say I use only one color, nor did I say color doesn't matter.
What I did say was, one color is not better than another for any given
circumstance. In other words, if I am fishing a lake that is clear or
lightly stained, I will use clear or natural color lures. If I am fishing a
lake that is heavily stained or muddy, I will use dark or brightly colored
lures.
Now, some fish will be attracted to one color, and other fish will be
attracted to another. That is why, when I find a school of bass I will
start with one color and when the bite slows down, I will immediately change
colors, and in most cases I will immediately start picking up more fish. I
may change colors four or five times before the bite comes to a halt.
I will give you one example. I was fishing a lake in pre-spawn (and you
must understand I LOVE fishing the tube bait). The water was stained (not
heavily, but the water was difinitely colored). I tied on a Pumpkinseed
with Copper metal flake tube. I started scoring smallies left and right,
then the bite suddenly stopped. I immediately grab a rig tied with a light
brown tube with black flake, and scored several more until the bite came to
a halt. I then grabbed a third rig tied with a light purple with dark
purple metal flake tube and score a few more until the bite stopped. I then
tied on a black tube with bright gold metal flake and score a few more.
Then tied on a yellow with black & gold metal flake and score a few more.
When the bite stopped, I immediately went back to my pumpkinseed and copper
metal flake, and nothing. Made a few more changes and nothing. The point
being, if I had stuck to one color I would have caught a few fish and would
have gone home happy. But by believing I could use multiple colors (because
as I said earlier, different fish are attracted to different colors), and
that the size and presentation was more important, I had a fantastic day,
and went home floating on cloud nine.
Now, if you are serious about fishing for money, contact me by e-mail and if
the money is right, I would LOVE to meet you on netrual water. If you live
in the Central or Eastern part of the US, chances are I will be in your area
sometime soon.
S & C Clark
anymore and you do use color the exact same way that I do. I have some real
deadly ones that are not available in the States (hand made) yet and they
are deadly on smallies. If you ever come to Canada in the area of the
Kawartha lakes I would love to go fishing with you. I fish a fabulous
smallmouth fishery where four pounders grow on trees!
There was only four weekends last year that I didn't catch one, three of
those I couldn't get to the lake and the other one I had too many *"Brown
Bass" and it wouldn't be wise to drive the boat. I'll even let you have the
front of the boat! We would probably have a blast colors or no! Do you ever
do "The Toronto Sportsman Show"? Let me know!
--
Steve from Stony
*1 Brown Bass =12 oz. 5% alc.
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GL3Loomis <GL3L...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> A challenge . . . I like that! A challenge that involves money. . . I
LOVE
> THAT!
>
> Now, I did not say I use only one color, nor did I say color doesn't
matter.
Is this a change of tune? ;-))))) I'm bad arnt I