Although I’m not totally color blind, I deal with a red and green deficiency.  For years I stuck to a few, obvious to me, color selections for soft plastics.

When dyes came on the market, I jumped at the ability to add a splash of color to them, but was a disaster if I attempted to change a bait’s color. I started storing soft plastics in their original package and ended up with a go bag that was way too heavy when fishing as a non-boater and I reverted back to my original choices. I use both systems now and choose depending on who’s boat I fish from. 
I still have a big problem with hard baits, both when purchasing and when storing and then selecting.

I know a guy that uses only Rapala baits and keeps them in their original boxes. How do you guys overcome dealing with this?

 

 

 

My brother in law is color blind and I actually envy him when we fish together.  I can overthink color and tend to carry way too many varieties 

I probably keep things too simple, but it's easier for me to keep everything to a minimum. I put more emphasis on the type of lure than I do color.

 

I generally only buy one color (sometimes 2) of each specific lure. All my craws, senkos, tubes and trds are GP, all flukes are white, all speed worms and frogs are black, etc.  My jigs and chatterbaits are bluegill color or white.  Same applies for hard baits, but I don't use them as often.

 

 

     I'm not color blind but best friend is. Soft plastics in original bags and if you tip them with markers or dye put in gallon freezer Ziploc and write what you added. 

     Hard baits in plano boxes, write on lid above crank color/depth.

 

     For me if pushed I could get by with junebug or green pumpkin for creature/craw/worm plastics.  Dropshot - shad color.

 

   Hard baits shad, white, bluegill or chartreuse/black back or blue back/chartreuse. All depending on water clarity.  This doesn't mean I still don't have every color of the rainbow and pounds of plastics weighing boat down??

 

 

Any soft plastics I keep in a labeled package.

 

Jigs and trailers...good luck matching without help, but they still work.  You can't screw up black and blue. 

 

Hard baits...I just keep them simple.  It has been suggested to me to take a fine point sharpie and make a small identifier on various parts of the underside.  Also works for depth if you need a way to identify.

 

If you get a chance, try a pair of colorblind glasses,  they really is a difference green pumpkin "blah blah blah" colors. 

I am color blind. For personal use lures I rely on the packaging to advise the correct colors.  For the rods, reels, lures I develop for the market I have to rely on coworkers to help pick the appropriate pantones during development and approve final samples for correct color matches. 

Make colorblindness work for you. If fish see a pink worm on a green polka-dot jig they might get curious and go for it! All the so-called normal sighted people have it wrong.

 

I'm a bit colorblind but it doesn't affect me that much. I can tell one plastic from another. I don't know the color name of some things but I just don't care. If you don't know the exact color maybe it doesn't matter.

 

"Hey hand me that yellow crank"

"It's chartreuse!"

"Okay then hand me the yellow/greenish looking crank I keep catching fish with"

 

I only carry pumpkins, blues/blacks, chartreuse (or is it yellow), white mainly anyways so I could be totally colorblind and still know what I'm grabbing.

 

Seems like you could get away with just labeling a few baits that you mix up rather than all of them maybe.

13 hours ago, papajoe222 said:

Although I’m not totally color blind, I deal with a red and green deficiency.  For years I stuck to a few, obvious to me, color selections for soft plastics.

When dyes came on the market, I jumped at the ability to add a splash of color to them, but was a disaster if I attempted to change a bait’s color. I started storing soft plastics in their original package and ended up with a go bag that was way too heavy when fishing as a non-boater and I reverted back to my original choices. I use both systems now and choose depending on who’s boat I fish from. 
I still have a big problem with hard baits, both when purchasing and when storing and then selecting.

I know a guy that uses only Rapala baits and keeps them in their original boxes. How do you guys overcome dealing with this?

 

 

 

I'm red green colorblind too. 70% of all soft plastics and jigs look like they're the exact same color to me. I keep all baits in their original packaging as much as possible. It's funny you mention your friend using nothing but Rapala. I have recently been thinking about doing the exact same thing. I'd have to make an exception for Lucky Craft squarebills though.