What would you consider the most productive color for each of the following lures. I have never fished them so I want to pick some up and give them a try.

Tube

Flukes

Senko

If your water is clear I would go with "Natural Colors" in al 3 of those. If your water is murky i would opt for the opposite meaning more brighter colors and black.

We often times put too much emphasis on color, just get out there and start experimenting.

-WM

tubes: green pumpkin or black/blue

flukes: never used them

senko: 194 or 913

Watermelon Red Flake  

Tubes: Never used

Fluke: Baby Bass or White

Senko: Cinnamon Brown or Greenpumpkin

Tubes: black/blue   or   pumpkinseed  both SK bleeding tubes

Fluke: Natural colors like shad and white

Senko: Watermelon or natural

Tube: Green Pumpkin

Jerkbait: Shad for LM, Electric Chicken for SM

Senko: Watermelon

White Mike is dead on. Color is the least important aspect. Depth and speed are the key. Having said that, use more natural colors for clearer water, and darker colors for dirtier water.

The lake I fish most has, for the most part, stained water. It has some clarity, with a definite green tint. My most productive colors have been black/blue or dark green/brown for tubes, red shad for senkos and baby bass for super flukes. In the spring, when the water is dirtier, I go with black or black/blue, and forget about the flukes. Tubes and senkos produce for me in dirty water, and flukes do not.

You have picked some great baits to try. I always have a rod rigged with a senko, another rigged with a tube, and,  if the water is reasonably clear, another rod with a super fluke.

And, get the super fluke, not the fluke. The regular fluke is a very small bait. It is hard to get it rigged so it doesn't spin, and when you do manage to get it rigged straight, it's a dink magnet. It does make a good spinnerbait trailer. That's been my experience with it, anyway.

Cheers,

GK

The most productive colors for these baits in the waters I fish are...

Tubes: pumpkin/green pepper, watermelon/blue flake

Flukes: white, Arkansas shiner

senkos: watermelon, lemon, black/blue flake/blue tail

Tube: green pumpkin

Fluke: white ice

Senko: watermelon/ purple glitter

All i need to say is Motor Oil color ....

happy fishing

As I fish mostly extremely clear waters, 15 to 20 feet of visibility, and for Smallies most of the time I use a ton of tubes and colour is a very big topic argued all the time up here. I can tell you that with out a doubt, colour is very important, as smallies have very good vision and will really show a preference for one colour over another at times. Having said that, I find throw greens, browns, and smoke by far the most and all with some flake or hologram or both in them; and this is regardless if I'm dragging, casting or flipping.

As for Flukes, I you bait colours in open water or near weed edges, but when fishing shallow in pencil reeds, I throw something I can see, like white or bubblegum. Reason being, most times the strike is not felt, but you see the bait has suddenly just disappeared, or the line is not where you expect it to be.

Senko's, if around sparse weeds, bubblegum or white, otherwise, green watermelon with black flake.

The real issue is this, remember, once the bait has caught the angler and past by the cash register, it has done its job, if it catches fish too, that's a bonus.

Wayne