If you had to choose one color for a crankbait, a jig, a plastic or even a topwater, what color do you like to throw?

 

Green/brown jig, green pumpkin plastic, white topwater. Don’t throw cranks much but when I do it’s either a chartreuse pattern or a shad pattern. I’m pretty much always fishing clear water reservoirs. 

I've never caught a fish on green pumpkin where I live, the only natural color I can get bit on is a watermelon seed or watermelon red color. Far as topwater goes I throw white bottomed baits on stormy days and dark bottomed baits on sunny or blue bird days. Crankbaits, I don't go out of the bait fish colors. Jigs I like to throw a watermelon red color, or orange, purple and black, black and blue.

11 minutes ago, All about da bass said:

I've never caught a fish on green pumpkin where I live, the only natural color I can get bit on is a watermelon seed or watermelon red color. Far as topwater goes I throw white bottomed baits on stormy days and dark bottomed baits on sunny or blue bird days. Crankbaits, I don't go out of the bait fish colors. Jigs I like to throw a watermelon red color, or orange, purple and black, black and blue.

I think I’m a little more enthusiastic about green pumpkin than others but it’s absolutely my top tier confidence color for fishing any kind of plastics when fishing water with any sort of clarity. Most of the time the lakes I’m on are 8ft+ visibility to downright gin clear. 

Hardly ever throw cranks but for plastics it would be Junebug.

Not that it matters much, but if I had to choose it would be green frogs, and white for moving top water. 

 

 

Mike

If I could only pick one color for cranks and topwaters it would be a shad color. Soft plastics would be green pumpkin. For a jig it would be PB&J.

I fish mostly dirty water so...

Cranks- root beer chartreuse 

Jigs- green pumpkin w/ orange or red

Plastics- CA 420 (black/green with a little red)

Topwater frogs- yellow bottom

Bass are color vision fish, why contemplate restricting the use of colors?

Tom

Topwater - Bone Orange Belly 

Spinnerbait - double gold willow leaf with a white skirt 

Jig-n-Craw - Black-N-Blue 

Trap - Toledo Gold 

Square Bills - Sexy Shad

Rogue - gold, black back, orange belly

Deep diver - shad

Plastics - that's difficult! What's hot right now is Zoom's South Africa Special 

 

12 minutes ago, Catt said:

Plastics - that's difficult! What's hot right now is Zoom's South Africa Special 

 

Shhhhhhh!!!

I like black or white for almost all baits. Skirted jigs and spinnerbaits I can accent with the color of my trailer. 

Topwater- White

Tx Rigged Plastics- Junebug

Weightless plastics/Senkos- Watermelon Red

Jig-Blacknblue

Crankbait- Sexy Shad

For crankbait A shad color with some chartreuse  in it like chartreuse sexy shad .

9 hours ago, WRB said:

Bass are color vision fish, why contemplate restricting the use of colors?

Tom

Because if people are like me and can't buy every color out there to use, what do they like to use color wise, that works best. There are some baits out there that work better on certain colors, they are imitating certain things. I was just asking a simple question bro.

There isn’t a simple answer, popular or favorite colors are regional;

Green pumpkin soft plastics

Bkack blue jigs

Shad color crank baits

My preference is trail and error.

Start with purple tone soft plastic 

Anywhere any time jig (black-purple-brown)

pearl white or black/red crank baits 

Bone top water 

trout swimbaits

white-chartreuse spinner/chatter 

baits

nickle spoons

Tom

 

 

 

I fish muddy/murky rivers so cranks are red craw

 

Most my soft plastics are junebug/black and blue variation

 

Topwater I'm looking for basic white

Topwater - Black (all black)

Moving baits - Bluegill colors

Plastics/Jig - I'm a firm believer in our bass fishing lord and savior, Green Pumpkin

White for movers, watermelon red flake for wigglers, green pumpkin for jiggers.

 

Choosing one color hurts my heart.  I try to keep 3-5 different colors available.  Minimalist with a little variation. 

I'm really surprised about green pumpkin being so popular, I guess it's time to keep fishing with it til I get bit.

40 minutes ago, All about da bass said:

I'm really surprised about green pumpkin being so popular, I guess it's time to keep fishing with it til I get bit.

Have you tried darker shades and gotten bit?  The water clarity plays into your color choice heavily.

2 hours ago, Hook2Jaw said:

Have you tried darker shades and gotten bit?  The water clarity plays into your color choice heavily.

Yes I have, if black and blue or junebug counts.

I lean on green pumpkin because my personal experience has been that it works well in all water conditions. Black/blue has never been as good for me as green pumpkin in clear water. I also feel like using a solid green pumpkin jig and changing the color/profile of the trailer let's me quickly and easily imitate several different types of forage.

hmmm... I guess dark for baits fished on or near bottom and light for baits fished top to mid-depths.  Whatever shade of dark or light is available when I'm buying a particular bait.

 

oe

Top water: Black when sunny, bone/white when cloudy.

Crankbait: bluegill.

Jig: green pumkin/orange.

Plastics: green pumkin/red .

Green Pumpkin or Watermelon red for plastics. 

White bottom for top water.

PB&J for jigs.

White buzz baits.  

White Fluke.

 

I will use pumpkin seed on my worms from time to time.  

I fish muddy and stained water.  White or white chart for moving baits, yellow on top, junebug, candybug and green pumpkin plastics, black and blue jigs.  Plus about twenty other colors.