What are some general go to colors for poppers?

I've got 3 ricos. 2 in silvery metallic patterns (bluegill and shad) and one in translucent green and black triangles (baby bass)

What should be next? A clear popper? Opaque popper (bone or black?). A more realistic bluegill pattern?

Dont know the pattern name but I have caught a lot of fish on black with white stripes .

I use bone, pearl, and black.

Always do well with frog pattern Pop R.

I have been doing a lot of bluegill fishing lately with a fly rod and i am mostly using an orange size 8 sneeky pete popper.The small bass have been attacking it so i am thinking about taking out the airbrush and painting one of my large popper lures orange and trying it with my bass gear.You never know till you try.

Bone

Black

Baby bass

Bluegill

Black

Bone

Black, bone, and chrome.

 

Tom

Either 'natural cork' or 'painted'       

 

Roger

As long as there is some white on the belly. Color doesn't matter much to me.

Bone

Silver/Chrome

Black

Bone orange belly!

River perch, yellow perch, white, translucent for me. Have had luck with bluegill and baby bass on spooks but not on poppers.

I'm simple. Black and bone.

My favorite is a Ghost Zell Pop (kind of silver/white/copper). I also like translucent colors and black. 

Bone

I went with bone,thanks yall.

Black

Bone

 

this plus one with a little orange on the throat or belly and i'm good to go....

You have shad, bluegill, and baby bass.  The only color I would add would be black.

Black because it contrasts against the sky which makes it easier to see from below

Bone is king

I like the ones that are gray chartreuse on top have a dark green line that zigzags across the middle with white belly I think it’s the baby bass pattern.

On 9/7/2015 at 7:54 PM, EvanT123 said:

As long as there is some white on the belly. Color doesn't matter much to me.

Came here to say this, I do have one with chartreuse on the belly that works great too though. But yeah if they aren’t hitting one with a white belly then I will try something else.

On 9/7/2015 at 4:36 PM, Montanaro said:

What are some general go to colors for poppers?

I've got 3 ricos. 2 in silvery metallic patterns (bluegill and shad) and one in translucent green and black triangles (baby bass)

What should be next? A clear popper? Opaque popper (bone or black?). A more realistic bluegill pattern?

*I generally like Bone , Bluegill , Opaque Shad type color , Chrome , a Ghost Shad type transparent color , baby bass and black . So I have narrowed it down to 7 possible colors (lol !) ... Depending on the bait fish situation with sky and water conditions  , all  7 popper colors have their place.

I only recognize two colors when it comes to topwaters like poppers.  Sparkle and flash colors like chrome or transparent, and silhouette, which is anything dark and flat.  In the extreme contrast of a lure sitting against the backdrop of the sky with the lure body itself in full shadow, the bass probably won't be able to pick out colors at all, but rather just shades and flashes.