Grub Color for Cold Water
Thundercat
iced over, but there is some open water where a creek flows in. Cabin fever
has the best of me, and I am going to drag the hell out of this spot whether
the fish are there or not. My question is what colors are best for this icy
cold water. Would the better choice be dark colors or light colors? I plan
to use an insanely slow retrieve, perhaps even stitching and dead sticking
for the most part. Any advise on ultra cold water fishing you may have is
more than welcome in this thread. Thanks all.
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Chris Rennert
spark some mass movement of some kind of prey. Like possibly crayfish
coming out of their winter haunts or maybe shad starting to congregate in
the back of covers or maybe bluegill (sunfish) moving into warm bays. I
primarily base my color selection on water colors first. If the fish can't
see it or feel it , it can't eat it. So dark water the obvious Pink, Bright
Orange, Chart. All come to mind. The clearer the water, the water the more
natural the color. If your pond has crayfish , I would use brown or green,
or even black (Purple & blue also work). I f your pond has Shad then I
would use RodMakers suggestion.
I hope this helps.
Chris Rennert
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Craig Baugher
the thin ice next to the open water near the creek to my advantage. I would
cast over to the ice then slowly drag the grub near the edge and then shake
the lure so that the lead jig (brown or black) taps on the ice. Because the
lure is dark it is easy for the fish below to see it through the ice and
watch it. After a couple minutes of tapping and shaking it, I would pull it
into the water on a tight line a know that the strike well come almost
immediately if it come at all. I have caught quite a few bass, pike, and
muskie using this technique very early in the spring. It fact it is
probably the best technique I found to catch fish this time of year.
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Craig Baugher
Andrew Kidd
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> Grubs on jig heads are what I am thinking. The majority of the pond is
still
> iced over, but there is some open water where a creek flows in. Cabin
fever
> has the best of me, and I am going to drag the hell out of this spot
whether
> the fish are there or not. My question is what colors are best for this
icy
> cold water. Would the better choice be dark colors or light colors? I plan
> to use an insanely slow retrieve, perhaps even stitching and dead sticking
> for the most part. Any advise on ultra cold water fishing you may have is
> more than welcome in this thread. Thanks all.
Pearl colored Kalin grub....
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RichZ
Harry, please check...
http://www.richz.com/fishing/articles/earlybass.html
If anyone's wondering where I've been hiding, I'm having horrendous
problems with the net. Can surf http all I want, but can't connect to
any ftp, nntp, smtp or pop server. Seems to be my cable provider's
fault, but they are at a loss. Anyway, I've been checking the group
occasionally via google. I just hate using it this way.
Duckhunter4570
However, for REALLY cold water, I have two favorites that work farily well in
any water clarity. Chartruce with silver glitter/metal flakes and a
combination of black and chartruce. I don't know why, but the black/chartruce
combo has been the most productive color for me in any lure type in any water
condition.
One more thing you might want to try: fish your pond during or right
after a rain shower useing red or brown grubs or worms. This seems to
stimulate fish to feed on worms that wash into the pond.
-Zimmy
gil...@tacklesupply.com
conditions as always. to me it would be a question of where to fish it
and how slow should it go when fished. I do admit never fishing an
iceout condition so those factors are an unknown to me but here in
arizona the rules can apply to light conditions rather than temps on
colors for grubs or any plastics.
Here in the very clear arizona lakes a watermelon with red flake,
cinnimon with purple flake yamamoto hula grub on a half oz. football
jighead fished slow bumped on the bottom can work well for those
slower moving bass in the cooler months around here.
gil
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