Sorry if someone else has posted this I looked through and didn’t see anything. I figured I would just ask!

Don't appologise for asking a question.

The answer:  Fish your favorite color, it will work just fine.

Agree. I gravitate to greens cause it’s my favorite color. Just happens I’m surrounded by stained, murky water. I have greens or blue/blacks for night. That’s it. 

Always white regardless of what I use. 
 

 

 

Mike

Any color jig with a white trailer, I jest. But I do like to use white when specifically trying to fish on a bed.

Anything that shows up well enough to easily see - white, bubblegum and merthiolate

During the spawn I'll be casting a crankbait in either firetiger or crawfish color.

I don't specifically target bedding fish, so my favorite color is whatever one is working that day. Bedding fish are usually a big time waster for me, even when I find one that's catchable.

Yeah! I asked more towards when they are on beds not as much targeting them on beds. I can see how it takes up time. 

In the spring I tend to gravitate toward red/craw for crankbaits but I have no proof the fish care. 
 

I will say that I see more success with floppy-appendage plastics in the spring. A Zoom UV Speed worm does much better than a Zoom Trick Worm. A lizard or brush hog is better than a heavy craw. Etc. 

 

But again, if that’s what I throw and the fish bite it then it’s the deal, right?  They can’t bite what you don’t throw. 

I don't specifically target bedding fish, but when I come across them and they're worth catching, I've historically used whatever plastic I had tied on with mixed results. Sometimes they bite and sometimes they don't, which is just the same old story of bedding fish. I do wonder how a Dark Sleeper would do.

I like the Trick Worm in bubble gum or limetreuse. It makes it easy to see if they take it. Also a lizard is good, but they're usually natural colors that blend into the bottom. It's generally up to the fish whether it bites or not. They're not really eating.

4 hours ago, BassFisher517 said:

Yeah! I asked more towards when they are on beds not as much targeting them on beds. I can see how it takes up time. 

Que?!

I like to pitch a craw, or creature bait (beaver and bug style) in Okeechobee craw, and if that is not working, then I will go to white or Bama Bug, the orange seems to tick them off a bit!

16 hours ago, Team9nine said:

Anything that shows up well enough to easily see - white, bubblegum and merthiolate

Pink.  Say it, "Pink."  It won't leave a mark.

Spring 2021 starts March 21st so lake may start the spawn that early most don’t and northern lakes could still have ice.

Spawn cycle; Pre, bedding and post over a few moths for big lakes, smaller lakes a shorter time period.

Bass on beds are smaller males for a longer time, they choose and make the bed, protect it from egg eaters and encourage females to lay eggs in the bed. Male or females are not eating on a bed, they protect it. You don't get time to set a hook when the picks up whatever they don’t want near remove it. 

It’s called sight fishing so you need to see the lure, pearl white and chartreuse are easiest colors to see under shallow water.

Tom

Liz-zard or Craw Worm ?

 

Lizard: Black-n-Blue with a Blue Tail & silver glitter tail, Sapphire Blue, Watermelon Neon 

Craw Worm: Black-n-Blue with Blue Claws, Junebug Blue Claws, Falcon Lake Craw.

 

I watch her attitude, reaction to lure, & feel for it!

 

But I don't bed fish ?