18 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

I tend to do best with watermelon colors , June bug, grape , red shad. Green pumpkins good but not best where I fish. 

Y'all try the Alabama craw color .It’s half June bug and ( I think ) half pumpkin. I don’t know if it comes in other brands besides Yum dingers but that’s my hot bait right now. The fish absolutely clobber it on top, reeling thru or on top of grass.

I think you are referring to Bama Bug which is green pumpkin/junebug.  Bama Craw is more of a green pumpkin /orange 

On my waters, I’ll take Junebug over GP any day, but GP variations are a good backup

For the waters I fish water red and motor oil red are 1a and 1b and these two colors catch them in all water colors for me. Straight green pumpkin just doesn’t get bit for me, but Green pumpkin purple gold does well for river Smallies, so I do use a variation of it sometimes, but don’t carry it in the boat anymore. 

my mileage ... the zoom green pumpkin is winning the day for me where i pursue the lmb ...

 

not even close ...

 

good fishing ...

GP is a good color but I personally like the Zoom Watermelon Candy, which is darker than the regular watermelon better. If I had to have only one color (like in those silly pointless hypothetical winter threads) it would be purple or black. 3-5 colors is really all one needs 99% of the time. 

Most pros agree black and blue is the best color. Black and blue is optimal if the water is stained making it more versatile.

 

For me, black and blue is the clear winner if I could only choose one color. Green pumpkin is a great color, though.

In my neck of the woods I stick to 5 colors. Black/blue, okeechobee craw, bama bug, junebug, and green pumpkin.

 

If I had to choose one color I would choose Okeechobee Craw. 

5 hours ago, Revival said:

I think you are referring to Bama Bug which is green pumpkin/junebug.  Bama Craw is more of a green pumpkin /orange 

I did struggle to remember between the two. 

I've given grn pumpkin a serious shot, but it really hasn't worked that well for me. I don't know why either? But, I've had the most success over many years on grape, mine but and blue

On 7/27/2019 at 2:03 PM, Jrob78 said:

Green pumpkin and black and blue are 1a and 1b for me.

This.....

Earlier this summer it was all about watermelon red. About a  month ago is when green pumpkin plastics started working. I think it has something to do with the color of the crawfish in the water I fish. They turn a brownish green later in the year. 

I can tell you that Yamamoto’s top selling color is 297 Green Pumpkin/Blk Fleck hands down.  I personally have caught fish in gin clear water to coffee colored water to the dark tannic water in Florida on that color.  There are other colors that may work better on different bodies of water like a red fleck in the Potomac or a Natural Shad color on St Clair but for “all around” versatility it’s hard to beat.  The other major factor that gets forgotten.......confidence.  Throw whatever color you have confidence in.  That will usually produce the best.  It’s like Gary Klein once told me, “I don’t know if confidence catches more fish but I guarantee you that if you throw a color/bait you have no confidence in, you won’t catch fish.” 

Green Pumpkin and Black/Blue  flake for me.  Probably actually lean towards Black/Blue Flake

Is green pumpkin green flake good

and is green pumpkin purple flake good??

Yes, and black flake, too.

Black and Blue for me here in Kansas seems to be the ticket. 

According to what I’ve read bass have cones to detect only red and green and green penetrates the water better so it stands to reason that green will be very effective. 

I fish green pumpkin more, but if I had to pick 1 soft plastic color for the rest of my life, I'd go with solid black.

1 hour ago, Delaware Valley Tackle said:

According to what I’ve read bass have cones to detect only red and green and green penetrates the water better so it stands to reason that green will be very effective. 

I have read the research study you are referring to.  To me I always considered green pumpkin a more of a brown color.  
 

According to the study, I would think that watermelon colors which are more of a true green would be more effective.  
 

I am aware that watermelon + pumpkin = green pumpkin but the only thing green about the final product is the name...haha.

6 hours ago, Bassin with angel said:

Is green pumpkin green flake good

and is green pumpkin purple flake good??

 

I think anything with green flake is good. In fact, my very favorite color is "pumpkin green" (Pumpkin with green flakes), which I prefer most of the time over green pumpkin. 

 

Some other colors with green flake:

-"Junebug" (grape with green flake)

-anything "Candy" (green and purple flake)

-"Sprayed Grass" (usually one side green flake, one side purple flake)

-"Black Emerald" (black with green flake)

I’m right there with you guys on the productive colors. Some patterns seem to draw the bites. 
 

But I’ve had multiple days over the years where a color like morning dawn or sand or cotton candy was the trick for good numbers of fish. These are certainly not my go to colors but I like to keep presenting colors until I get hits some times. 
 

I have a real phobia about bubblegum. Why I don’t know. I’ve been at this bass stuff a long time and have never thrown it. My buddy is going to dig me up some in worms and flukes to try. It is hard to find right now. Not around like it use to be. 

My #1 is OkeeChobee Craw. My biggest, and my most volume days have come from using this color. Rage Craws, beaver and bug style flipping the banks. 

9 minutes ago, InfantryMP said:

My #1 is OkeeChobee Craw. My biggest, and my most volume days have come from using this color. Rage Craws, beaver and bug style flipping the banks. 

That pattern works well for me on the river. Granted my Smallies are not huge and I’m not on a world class river but they like to hit that. Beaver and bugs also. 

I resisted GP for a long time because I figured the water I fish is basically the same color so how could fish "see" it.  I finally tried it a few years ago and have never looked back.  I do use other colors depending on conditions but consistently GP/blk flake with tail (or claws or tentacles or whatever) tipped in JJ's Chartreuse usually does the trick.

Green pumpkin is probably the worst color for me.  I've wasted so much money on that color due to everyone on the internet saying how great it is, but all it's good for, in my case, is snagging tree branches.

 

However, the waters I fish are usually stained pretty heavily with an iron red color.  So I'm sure that's the reason why.  That, and I bet everyone else is throwing green pumpkin, so the bass may be conditioned to know it's not a real food.  

 

For me, black and blue, junebug, chartreuse, and chartreuse and white are the only colors I ever use on my nearby lakes.  When I venture to clearer waters, which isn't often because it's quite a drive, I'll break into my green pumpkin supply.  But even then, I can't remember ever getting bit on one.  It might have happened.  But I can't specifically recall an instance.