19 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

And they were all yellow........... man I hate Coldplay 

I was thinking more dylan...the sun's not yellow its chicken

The yellow submarine.

Would you all say sexy shad uses a yellow stripe or a chartreuse stripe?

Bumble Bee black/yellow was and still is a popular color combo.

Tom

4 hours ago, WRB said:

There isn't scientific proof how bass interpret the color spectrum. Studies using the eye rod and cones assume how bass see color under controlled lighting conditions based on how humans see colors. 

Todays chartreuse is offered in a wide variety of yellows and yellow/lime green tones, very difficult to differentiate yellow from chartreuse in today's lure offerings.

Tom

There are two studies on vision in largemouth bass that are very solid.  The first was in 1937 and another in 2018.  They trained bass to recognize a target color to receive food.  Both studies found that bass had a hard time differentiating between blue and black and between yellow and white.  My interpretation is that bass do not have cones that can detect the blue spectrum very well.  White contains all colors in the spectrum.  If you remove the blue light from white light you get yellow.  If you can't see the blue then yellow and white look the same.   None of this means that bass won't hit a yellow lure,  it just means that it looks a lot like a white lure to them.  This graph is from the 2018 study and shows how well the bass trained to certain colors could actually differentiate that color from the others.

 

 

It's not possible to determine how the bass interprets what they see under controlled lighting conditions or in the wild. Bass react differently to the same shade of color white that the human eye can't see a difference for example depending on the manufacturer of the paint used. There is more to how a animals brain interprets the color spectrum the rods and cones or controlled studies.  

The longer you fish the less you will be sure of.

Tom

I still use yellow for several applications.

 

4" yellow grub used as a trailer on a blue/chartreuse/white spinnerbait is very effective in muddy water.

 

Yellow Snagless Sally is still one of my favorite lures.

 

Yellow rubber spinnerbait skirt as a trailer on a black nickle Johnson Silver Minnow.

 

Black and Yellow spinnerbait

 

I have painted crankbaits Black and Yellow and have done reasonably well on them in the Atchafalaya Basin.

 

What about Jimmy ? ! ? 

A-Jay

Mo I associate Spring Craw color crankbaits to yellow. But true they have other color in the pattern. Brown generally. Outside of a yellow grub I may never have thrown anything that was solid yellow. 
 

I just picked up on a new Spring Craw crankbait pattern put out by Googan. They call it “corn pop”. Spring Craw pattern works all season on the river. 
 

Thought I’d be a bad boy and pick up something they put out. They had a solid black version of a pop r with a chartreuse tail that looks to work out well on the river also. I don’t care about their name, status or YouTube presence. I believe 100% those two baits will produce fish for me. That’s all I care about.