Thanks for sharing your insight, Greg (and others).  Interesting stuff.

Anyone who thinks color is relatively insignificant to bass and walleyes  is mistaken.  Just saw it yesterday on clear water smallmouths, Dream Shot drop shot lures identical to each other exc one had green flecks in addition to the black and purple flecks in the others.  Interchanged lures quite a few times, green fleck far superior.  Other times with walleyes, and ALL walleye anglers have experienced this, they will take one color far more than any other.  The fact that walleye anglers have hundreds of color options in their spinner selections is not because they are stupid.

21 hours ago, WRB said:

The best time to try out new new lures or colors is during a good bite, not when the bass are inactive. I rarely try out a new lure during a tough bite. Trying out something different is easy to do when fishing with a partner and you are being out fished using your standby lure/color. 

Tom

PS, never caught a totally blind bass, caught lots of 1 eyed bass.

I would think just the opposite.  It seems to me that when fish are actively feeding, it doesn't really matter what gets thrown as long as its in the column of water the fish are feeding in.  I can't imagine you would see a difference in what color bait is working since, most likely in an active fish situation, all colors are working.  To me, it's during the tough bite that you'd want to be more precise with your bait selection.

1 hour ago, RichF said:

I would think just the opposite.  It seems to me that when fish are actively feeding, it doesn't really matter what gets thrown as long as its in the column of water the fish are feeding in.  I can't imagine you would see a difference in what color bait is working since, most likely in an active fish situation, all colors are working.  To me, it's during the tough bite that you'd want to be more precise with your bait selection.

You can't catch inactive bass, you can catch active bass. There is a big difference between a wide open bite and active bass. A wide open feeding frenzy is rare where I fish, bass are active about 20% of the time, those are the bass we catch most of the time and the bass I am fishing for.  The thought you can tease a inactive bass into striking is a common mistake most bass anglers believe. My thinking is why waste time trying new lures when you can't catch those bass on anything and that includes live bait.

Tom

 

 

You don't think inactive bass will strike out of reaction or instinct? 

56 minutes ago, RichF said:

You don't think inactive bass will strike out of reaction or instinct? 

Which ones you talking about?   The No doubt, shutdown, Ft. Knox inactive bass, the absolutely closed, lights out, don't bother knocking inactive bass, or the kind of, sort of, maybe inactive bass.

LOL

Inactive curious?