This has been on my mind recently, and Im curious. With the very wide variety of colors that our favorite lures come in, do you guys think that color is as important, or possibly sometimes more important than the way you present a bait to the fish?

I personally feel that under certain circumstances, a color change can def. increase your odds of catching fish, but the presentation is far more important than color.

Example: as of late I have been fishing spooks hard, and it seems to me that when they're destroying the plug, it doesn't matter what color spook I have tied on.. I'm catching fish on it.

I'm also a big jig guy, and when I started using them I went out and bought a variety of colors. Now, I catch fish on a black/blue jig 99% of the time with various colored trailers. Pretty much whichever craw Im feeling that day. What's yalls opinion?

It doesn´t matter if it´s lovely colored if you don´t cast it where the fish are so: No1 is LOCATION.

 

Now, you are casting it where they are, it doesn´t matter if it´s lovely colored if it doesn´t move right, so: No2 is PRESENTATION

 

The fish may respond to different colors and not just one, in my experience seldomly I have encountered that they only hit a particular color so color is the least important, color matters only when it matters and it´s more likely that the fish don´t respond to your bait because you are not fishing them where they are or you are not fishing it like they like.

Color is one of the last things on my mind. It does have a role at times though.

Depth and speed control are the paramount concerns, once the fish are located. Presentation involves depth, speed, size, action & color. You have to find them before you can catch them. Color is always my last concern.

All great answers. Iv seen people go way too crazy over bait color options, and have very little to show for it. My very first concern always is location. After I know there are fish where Im fishing, I then play around with baits to find out what they like at that time.

All great answers. Iv seen people go way too crazy over bait color options, and have very little to show for it. My very first concern always is location. After I know there are fish where Im fishing, I then play around with baits to find out what they like at that time.

 

Yup, but I have to admit, I´m a sucker for pretty colored baits, got 20 times more colors/patterns than with what I actually fish.

There are times color matters & there are times color does not matter.

I have been killing them on a black-n-blue tail Bassassin Tapout worm, throw anything else you will be skunked!

Yup, but I have to admit, I´m a sucker for pretty colored baits, got 20 times more colors/patterns than with what I actually fish.

Oh, dont get me wrong.. I love the colors, and have my favorites. Bama craw, summer craw, and falcon lake.. Gotta have em. Do I feel that those colors catch me more fish on any given day, solely because its said color? Most likely not.

In the past two weeks, Iv been through two super spook jr's, and am now on my third.. I know, I know. One was the "baby bass" color, which got hooked into a big fish, which honestly felt like a PB. After making a very exciting, drag peeling dart underneath a dock did I figure out I had been snagged on a piece of wood.

The second was the "foxy shad" color which also got smacked by a fish and took my lure to a local sunken tree..lure snagged.

I'm now fishing with the "bleeding shad" spook, with about the same amount of success as the other two. My favorite of the three was the "foxy shad". Just liked the way it looked, but my point is, when you find fish in the area, and you figure out what they are hungry for, I think color plays a small role in the equation.

For top water presentation I feel the color plays little if any role.

I believe the fish are keying in on the water disturbance and action rather than the color.

Having said that, since the water has warmed up here in southern IL I have been killing with any spook I throw!

I would agree. I think that the color of a spook would not matter nearly as much as that of a soft plastic. Senko, finesse, etc.

The only time color comes into play for me is when I first choose a lure and again if I find they are short striking a crank or spinnerbait.  I try to stick to some basic colors when starting out and unless I have the depth and prefered retrieve locked in, I don't change colors.