i have decided i carry way to many colors of plastic! ( at least 10-12 per bait style) so what 4 colors would you guys choose to cover all conditions? my 4 would probably be: green pumpkin,watermelon/red,junebug,and black/blue....what are yours?
i have decided i carry way to many colors of plastic! ( at least 10-12 per bait style) so what 4 colors would you guys choose to cover all conditions? my 4 would probably be: green pumpkin,watermelon/red,junebug,and black/blue....what are yours?
4 colors in what kind of soft plastic? I carry 2 boxes of worms alone then I have a box with flukes and another box with craws and lizards. If I had to pick 4 colors of each it would be...
Worms:
Culprit Red Shad (ribbon tail)
Berkley Black Power Worm
Zoom Pumpkin Char tail finess worm
Yum watermellon seed ribbon tail
Lizards:
Gene Larew watermelon pepper
Yum black/blue
Uncle Buck's black/char fossil lizard
Culprit red shad lizard
Craw:
Yum orange crawbug
Gene Larew black neon/char salt craw
Alluring baits black/blue laminate beaver craw
Berkley black power craw
Flukes/Senkos:
Bass Assassin Albino Shad
Alluring baits 4" pumpkinseed/char trick stick
Alluring baits 5" Watermelon/char laminate trick stick
Lunker city Bubblegum slugo
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I agree with some of your choices but not all. Then again, much depends on the waters you fish. In FL for instance your choices are the top colors for the dark but clear waters there, and you could even add Red Shad to the list.
I personally use two crawfish colors, like Green Pumpkin and maybe Watermelon/Red Flake or Cinnamon black flake etc, and then I also add two baitfish colors like Sand and or Blue Pearl Hologram.
Remember that a small worm or jig does not always have to represent a crawfish, but rather should imitate the forage the fish are feeding on that particular day.
A 4" straight worm like the Zoom Finesse or Yamamoto Kuttail fished on a Shakey Head or glass and brass and sjaken or hopped along the bottom looks amazingly like a small 4" minnow in shape and action. It even more closely represents these baitfish when worked on a dropshot rig. Check out some of the dropshot baits available today, like the 4" and 5" Sculpins from Roboworm. Why would you want to fish those in anything other than a minnow color?
Like I said, it is impossible to give an accurate answer to the question without knowing where you fish. Colors that work in 30-50' of clear mountain water here may not work in 2-3' of dark FL water.
Also, remember that a 4 or 5" straight worm in a minnow color might win a tournament on days when a 10" Culprit worm will never get a bite, or vice versa, depending on conditions and areas fished.
I do use Junebug worms for instance, but ONLY at night during the summer months. Any other time I don't get bites on them, on my home lake, but there are other lakes I fish a couple of hours away where I throw that color all day and catch fish on it.
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Personally I like to keep it simple as well, I like 2-3 natural colors and then 2-3 darker colors of each bait that I use. Although it is a couple more than you have limited yourself to, it will also cover a bigger selection of water conditions if you travel anywhere to fish.
Lighter Colors
Luminous (Yamamoto)/White/Blue Pearl Hologram
Green Pumpkin
Watermelon Red/Black Flake
Darker Colors
Black or Black/Blue
Red Shad
June Bug
I also have a few off the wall colors for a few places that I fish all the time and I know they work there.
You know after thinking about this some I bet there are 6 colors I could have all around that would serve the purpose. 4 wouldn't cut it but 6 would...
Red Shad
Black
Watermelon seed
Pumpkinseed/char
White/hologram
Bubblegum
If that were the only colors I had in my box I'd be happy...
JuneBug
Green Pumpkin
Green Pumpkin Chartreuse Tip (Tiki Stick)
Red Shad
That's it for plastics everything else is no holds bard
For here in Central Florida, I could do all my soft plastic fishing with these 4 colors.. (and a bottle of chartruse dip dye)
Watermellon Seed (clear water)
Green Pumpkin (slight stained to stained water)
Junebug (stained to murky)
Black/Blue (dark stained/murky water)
(Could probably get by with just 3 if I wanted too, as Junebug and Black/Blue are usually interchangeable)
But I also carry these:
Shad (clear water)
Red Shad (slight stained to stained)
Watermellon Red (clear all the way to murky)
In addtion to the green pumpkin, watermelons, junebug and black/blue...I've got a moderate selection of smoke/black flake and some cinnamon colors....works for me.
Tom,
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