6 hours ago, Bassguytom said:

I don’t know man did my wife put you up to this??? Sometimes she will ask me a question that there is no right answer to and I always seem to get in trouble no matter how I answer. I’m going with my standard “whatever you thing is best honey”. ?

Lol!!! I've fished my whole life stained water and for the most part have used June bug and black and blue colors lately white has been working so I bought some other colors green pumpkins and watermelons to see what happens I'm no professional fishermen by any means I do it for strictly enjoyment and love being on the water I generally do pretty decent but I believe it's just finding them just my humble opinion.

Having confidence in what lure you are throwing and knowing how to present it well is far more important than what color a lure is.

@Catt if your point is “be open-minded,” fair enough.  But I don’t think there’s anything lost by starting from a framework of ‘generally accepted’ colors, confirmed by personal experience, even if only to allow focus to stay on the variables that are most important (not color choice, IMO). 

 

I guess if I thought every day was a puzzle that could be solved by selecting the right color, my approach would be different.  But for every experience I've had where it really seemed like color was critical to success, there have been countless experiences where the 'key' was something else.  So I pick a few go-to colors and then go to work figuring out those other keys.

 

If the day comes that a bubblegum jig is the only way to get bit, I'm going to have a bad day. I'm ok with the odds of that.

 

It is generally accepted that under difficult or pressured conditions to give em something they aint seen before!

 

I do...I give em colors they aint seen...at least by none of y'all

I'm a pretty open minded guy I spent like a $100 on different colors of baits I have success with and going to apply those colors to water conditions and see if I notice a difference.Cant tell you guys what baits they are cause they were specially made for me once I win the bassmaster classic and sign a huge endorsement deal than I will reveal them,you guys are gonna have to keep buying the same baits as every other fishermen.

It's kind of funny how anglers look at the importance of color.  The type of bait I employ has a direct correlation to the various colors I have selected.

 

Baits that provide a lot of vibration and or commotion are limited colors.  Baits that don't are based more on contrast than actual color. Baits that fish will have a period to look at and size up have the largest color options.  Over the years I've dialed in most of the bait colors I use, especially plastics.  Crankbaits is another thing. I'm still working on that one.

 

Only thing I can tell you is I lost my "Fire Tiger" 14.5 Dredger . That wont do .   I'm going to Sheels tonight to purchase another . 

I think it's awesome how 90 percent of the people responded to this thread to hear other prospectives,it's made me step out of my box and try something different I think that's what's awesome about this forum not the ones be littling people or bragging how great of a bass fishermen they are if you are that good you don't need to let everyone know join flw ,mlf or bassmasters and show us on TV how great you are.

My preliminary findings so far are with soft plastic baits that are fast moving baits toads, swimbaits etc color wasn't a big factor,slower moving baits worm,senko etc color was a factor.

Watermelon red flake not long ago was more popular soft plastic color, then green pumpkin red flake. The popular flavor of the day is what 90% of bass anglers use and a high percent of bass will be caught on that color. The question is what color is what the bass prefer? 

I learned this Lession a very long time ago, bass have color preference and we need to experiment to discover the preferred color at the moment.

For example the first color jigs I used was a black Doll Fly 3/8 oz hair jig back in the mid 50's and caught bass on it and stayed with black jigs for 10 years believing black was the best color for jigs,but that is all I used. One day I came to the marina and someone I knew showed me his stringer of big bass caught on jigs and I was shocked because it was a tough day for me. My freind showed his purple vynl football jig and I asked where do you get those! I added purple vynl jigs to my lure choice and soon discovered purple out fished black most of the time. 

Point is; give the bass a choice.

Tom

2 hours ago, WRB said:

Watermelon red flake not long ago was more popular soft plastic color, then green pumpkin red flake. The popular flavor of the day is what 90% of bass anglers use and a high percent of bass will be caught on that color. The question is what color is what the bass prefer? 

I learned this Lession a very long time ago, bass have color preference and we need to experiment to discover the preferred color at the moment.

For example the first color jigs I used was a black Doll Fly 3/8 oz hair jig back in the mid 50's and caught bass on it and stayed with black jigs for 10 years believing black was the best color for jigs,but that is all I used. One day I came to the marina and someone I knew showed me his stringer of big bass caught on jigs and I was shocked because it was a tough day for me. My freind showed his purple vynl football jig and I asked where do you get those! I added purple vynl jigs to my lure choice and soon discovered purple out fished black most of the time. 

Point is; give the bass a choice.

Tom

where I fish shiners and shad are very prevelant so I'm thinking of testing out those color schemes from what I read those are at the top of the bass menu,I'm a power fishermen never enjoyed fishing slow baits never put much thought into colors and have done pretty good till I joined this forum now  thinking about using different colors.

Off the topic but since I've joined this forum I've become more diverse of a fishermen and a better fishermen,using baits and techniques I never did before so thank you !!!