95% of my soft plastics are:

Green pumpkin

Watermelon green

Black/blue

June bug

White

176 and 252

Depends on what color shirt I am wearing.......good thing green pumpkin goes with everything. 

 

All kidding aside, I do use a lot of green pumpkin variations (black fleck, red, blue, purple, etc) But I like black/blue combos. Sometimes it's a white fluke or Okeechobee craw brush hog.

Green pumpkin or darker colors.If there chasing, shad or bluegill colors.

Black with blue flake for most water conditions

 

Green pumpkin black flake when black and blue flake is not working

What colors of vibrating jig or swim jig do y’all use?

Yes.

Anything with the words "pumpkin", "watermelon", or "grass" in the name, and anything with green flake.

When bass anglers visit or move to California they bring with them production injection molded favorite color worms and can't catch a cold.

Before the Florida LMB bass strain was introduced we only had northern strain LMB and "normal" worms work good. FLMB in our reserviors morphed into very selective color patterns and took several years to unlock the fact these bass could be caught on artifical lures. Until the color discovery nearly everyone fished with live bait.

Nothing has changed, hand poured or auto poured (Roboworms) soft plastic worms rule here and colors change seasonally or sometimes hourly. A few have become standards; oxblood with light red flake, Margrita Multilator III or MM IIIand Prople worm ( cinnamon blue neon), Lightening Shad ( smoke with charteuse blood line and silver/gold flakes, Aaron's Majic a purple cinnanom laminate.  Green worms of any kind are low percentage colors in worms.....but OK in jig trailers. Black & blue at night, June bug at dusk. Colors are a big deal out west.

Tom

9 minutes ago, WRB said:

When bass anglers visit or move to California they bring with them production injection molded favorite color worms and can't catch a cold.

Before the Florida LMB bass strain was introduced we only had northern strain LMB and "normal" worms work good. FLMB in our reserviors morphed into very selective color patterns and took several years to unlock the fact these bass could be caught on artifical lures. Until the color discovery nearly everyone fished with live bait.

Nothing has changed, hand poured or auto poured (Roboworms) soft plastic worms rule here and colors change seasonally or sometimes hourly. A few have become standards; oxblood with light red flake, Margrita Multilator III or MM IIIand Prople worm ( cinnamon blue neon), Lightening Shad ( smoke with charteuse blood line and silver/gold flakes, Aaron's Majic a purple cinnanom laminate.  Green worms of any kind are low percentage colors in worms.....but OK in jig trailers. Black & blue at night, June bug at dusk. Colors are a big deal out west.

Tom

I didn’t realize that about the colors. Berkly used to have a hand poured worm very similar to the current Zoom Z3 Swamp Crawlers. Very small profile, supple feeling plastic, very reactive to any sort of current or shake in the rod tip. Oxblood Red for me always would produce. 

 

I hope to see if a trick worm or Senko in that same color will produce this year. 

Josh Upton of Upton Customs make a 6" dragon tail (trick worm) in oxblood red flake, he also make Oldschool a motor oil with chartreuse tail for anyone looking for it.

Check out his color offerings, I also like purple thunder if Shad are what bass are targeting and black grape blue neon and, and....

Tom

Black, black/blue, purple...and watermelon.

 

I usually buy a pack of black and a pack of watermelon in most things. Then I end up using up the black over and over while storing the packs of watermelon. I guess it's just the water here. I'll usually dist off the natural colors in mid-summer when bass just won't bite anything and I have to go finesse to get a few dinks to bite. Purple seems to do well with worms. In the Trick Worm I catch WAAAAY more on the bubble gum and limetreuse than any of the other colors. Naturals do well when bass are in post spawn and the aforementioned mid-summer.

Some days they want something different.  Who knows why.  I start with Candybug or Junebug.  I carry a variety.  And then there are shapes, sizes, presentations. ...

I've always felt that colors are more for the fisherman than the fish.  That said I have close to all the colors of baby brush hogs, senkos, chigger craws, peca chunks, etc.  

Over the years I have narrowed my color selection down. 90% of the time I am using green pumpkin or junebug.

I have too many soft plastics with too many colors.

 

Sorry, don't have a count or a favorite color although I do like Junebug, Watermelon, and Green Pumpkin with Black Flake the most, depending on water conditions.

On 1/21/2019 at 11:24 AM, reason said:

I'm color blind, so I'm never really sure what color I'm fishing, luckily the fish don't care. 

@reason I too am color blind. It makes for interesting times. 

 

I usually throw Black, Black and Red, Red Shad, Watermelon, or whatever strikes me that day. I have soft plastics in a ton of colors and most don't get used. I'm a firm believer in location and most of the time color doesn't matter.

How do the bass know when to stop biting color "A" and start biting color "B"?   

For instance...to stop biting Bubble Gum and start biting Margarita Multilator III? And how much of this change is really the fisherman and not really the fish? 

 

 

Going back to the OP I love June bug on worms but I can't catch anything on June bug Baby Brush Hogs. Watermelon Seed is my best color for craws. 

Orange with glitter, Black, blue w/glitter, silver/white, green pumpkin, chartreuse tails, all white, all chartreuse, grey/white. That’s what’s in my current box of tricks (a six pack cooler that I use in place of a tackle box). But I use others.

On 1/24/2019 at 7:46 PM, HeyCoach said:

What colors of vibrating jig or swim jig do y’all use?

Same philosophy as worms.  Black/blue variants, green pumpkin variants and shad colors.  If you're really into colors you can mix it up with trailers.    

If you ever have the experience when bass are on the specific color, your boat partner has it and you don't you will understand color makes a difference.

Being color blind like Aaron Martens and others on this site doesn't mean they can't see colors, they see them differently or can't distinguish between a few colors, as I understand color blindness. I had a fishing partner who was color blind and kept all his soft plastics in original bags to read what color his worms were because he wanted to know what color was working. If either of us started catching bass we always shared what color was working.

You can use 1 or 2 colors and catch bass if the bass are biting that color. You may never know if other colors are working a lot better if you believe it doesn't matter.

Tom

 

Worms , Craws & Creatures : Green Pumpkin , Watermelon Red , Watermelon Candy , Junebug , Black & Blue , Plum

Shad & Bluegill Imitators : Pearl White , Shad , Green Pumpkin , Black & Blue

I've seen times color made no difference at all 

 

I've seen times color made all the difference 

 

I've seen times I had constantly colors thought out the day

On 1/26/2019 at 12:57 PM, WRB said:

If you ever have the experience when bass are on the specific color, your boat partner has it and you don't you will understand color makes a difference.

Being color blind like Aaron Martens and others on this site doesn't mean they can't see colors, they see them differently or can't distinguish between a few colors, as I understand color blindness. I had a fishing partner who was color blind and kept all his soft plastics in original bags to read what color his worms were because he wanted to know what color was working. If either of us started catching bass we always shared what color was working.

You can use 1 or 2 colors and catch bass if the bass are biting that color. You may never know if other colors are working a lot better if you believe it doesn't matter.

Tom

 

spot on. i failed both color blindness tests when i joined the Marines, red/green and blue/green. it’s the varying shades of those colors is what gives me problems. it can be frustrating at times.