What do you think guys? Do you use this color (plastics or hard baits) often? There is a pink X-rap that I have my eye on. Just not sure how effective it would be early in the season. I have used pink Senkos in past seasons....mixed results.

I have the pink Xrap you speak of and yes, it catches fish. I also have a hot pink chatterbait I tied for my wife last year. Had one day last year I forgot the rest of my chatterbaits at home but I had that one in my box. Not only did it catch fish but I started catching bigger fish than I had on normal colors. 

I use pink in some of my plastics.  They work well in the winter and early spring.  I don't fish them much at other times.  Pink/pearl white and pink/chartruse are my two favorite laminates.  Bubble gum sticks work well for me in pre spawn.

Still no pink for me.

I just can't do it

I just can't do it

Does this help? Can't find the chatterbait pictures...

If we are in the boat together and the pinks working for you and I'm not catching anything ill beg for something Pink

I'm not proud

I have fished a jig with a bit of pink in it but It didn't work well

What do you think guys? Do you use this color (plastics or hard baits) often? There is a pink X-rap that I have my eye on. Just not sure how effective it would be early in the season. I have used pink Senkos in past seasons....mixed results.

Only stuff with pink in it would be crappie jigs. Don't think I have any other pinks. Haven't found the color to be that effective for crappie, so haven't pursued for bass....

For some unkown reason to me, when all else fails a pink Trick Worm rigged weightless is the ticket. I don't know what it is about it.  I've had days in the middle of the summer and in extremely clear water where that stupid color just flat out kicks butt.  I don't hardly ever throw that color except out of sheer desperation and 99% of the time it salvages the day.

I follow directions when a well-formed woman wearing stretch pants in that color sashays by, especially when "think" is printed on one swaying buttock and "pink" on the other. Yes, Ms. Whomever, my attention follows.

 

Re bass, after viewing the segment, "Spring Smallmouths on the Flats" which you'll find on Lindner's Angling Edge DVD "Crankbait Strategies Hardbait Bass," I invested in 2 XRD10 Rapala X Rap Deep Diving Slashbaits in their Hot Pink color. I trust Lindner and don't begrudge him the bucks he makes for shilling for Rapala, Berkley, whomever.

However, I don't feel obligated to buy these brands. I know I will be a better angler if I follow his advice.

 

I also bought pink in assorted types of soft plastics having made the decision to man up and tie on this color this season. I want to expand my repertoire, but you do what you want - I don't intend to be cheeky with my assertions, my fellow bassmasters.

The color pink catches fish... Rapala makes junk lures imo

The color pink catches fish... Rapala makes junk lures imo

Maybe "junk fishing" lures. Rapala rocks. Except for Bandit crankbaits, almost all my other hard baits are Rapala.

As for pink, I have it in crappie jigs only, and it's been so long since I fished those I forgot about it until being reminded here. I know it catches fish but I honestly think every single color of lure made also will, so if I skip pink in worms and hard baits then I'm not missing much. Some days a specific color works better and some days it's another, and some days color doesn't matter at all. Some days you catch nothing and you don't know why, so if one of those days is because it was a pink day and I had none then I'll just go home thinking it was because they wanted worms and I fished crankbaits all day instead. I don't like the bubblegum color on worms or crankbaits, or other baits either.....except crappie jigs that I hardly use. I guess I'm weird because, while I fish colors that I think might work (naturals, chartreuse, black, or other), I also have to like how it looks or I won't use it, whether it works or not.

Pink sluggos were a go to bait for me years ago and I have since used it in other baits like the xrap was well.

And rapala is hardly junk, I prefer their cranks over just about any other brand.

I used Zoom bubble gum super flukes last season for the first time and the smallmouth crushed them. I plan on using them again this season.

Pink works. Period. If you refuse to throw it for fear of what the other fisherman might say, then you're letting peer pressure make you a less effective fisherman. And possibly not secure in your masculinity...

 

Some will say its only benefits are for sight fishing. Others will say that it triggers some sort of predation response because it resembles an albino minnow. 

 

I do know that on some days pink sluggos and trick worms will catch bass like nothing else. The Ribbit frogs that work best for me have a pinkish opalescent belly.  My buddy has an old pink Lucky Craft rattle bait that looks 'silly' as heck, but produces as well. And my daughter is partial to pink lures. Bandit makes a few patterns in pinks and purples that she uses, and they work too (when not stuck in her clothing, a tree or my skin...).

 

Possibly my favorite color for soft plastics, Berkley Powerbait in tequila sunrise. It's half pink, half black, and it works at just about every lake I've fished.

Pink is for crappies. I've never had much luck bass fishing with it.

Just take a strike King Fin. worm in pink and fish it on a drop shot wacky or nose hook.I dare you,I double dog dare you! It flat out puts fish in my boat and isn't that what it is all about?

Pink flukes worked really well for me last year..I didn't get lots of big fish but I got lots of fish on them..and I use pink 1/32 jigs when I crappie fish with my buddy which is hardly ever but they work too .

Pink doesn't match any type of forage it sticks out..sometimes I think the fish hit it because its diff and bright..idk

Come to think about it, I do have a package of 9" pink Sluggos....Hmmmmmm!

Pink is for crappies. I've never had much luck bass fishing with it.

 

 

Not the only crappie caught on a 6 1/2" hand poured Trick Worm. They and bubble gum Flukes work good for bass and chain pickerel as well in Spring.

Pink works.

 

Great for an unweighted Zoom trick worm fished topwater on a spinning rig.

I have refused to buy "bubble gum" colored baits till my 6 year old daughter picked out some worms for herself. Well she started catching bass so I started using them too. Some nice LMB have been fooled into snacking on them. Give them a try and you will be surprised! It doesn't resemble anything natural but it gets the line tight!

I have some finesse worms that are pink, they have produced for me in the past, but still not as well as the more natural colors.