I watched a video on you tube with Gerald Swindle saying a black trick worm is his favorite for a floating worm so I bought all the black trick worms I could find. Is black good all the time or only in dirty water ?

Black is probably one of the most deadliest colors in bass fishing, a 3/16oz bullet weight and a black baby brush hog is one of my panic baits in the summer. I've caught a bunch of big fish on black jigs and black creature baits like pic below. Definitely will be using it again in 2021. Probably even more as the water around my neck of the woods can get pretty stained. 

Some days they eat it on bluebird sky’s and clear water.i throw em a lot

Black is the new orange.

Swindle says a lot of silly things though...

I only buy black and green pumpkin for all of my non baitfish imitating plastics.  Trick work and Zoom finesse worms are my favorite.

 

In my experience, the Trick worm on a bare hook will not float; it will slowly sink.

Black is straight nasty on a trick worm. I had very very good luck with it around pads, shade, and other shallow structure during the postspawn last year. Nothing big, but it caught me a ton of fish. Green pumpkin green flake worked really good too. Black works in all water clarities. Fish have told me this.

Just now, LrgmouthShad said:

Black works in all water clarities. Fish have told me this.

 

1 hour ago, bassh8er said:

In my experience, the Trick worm on a bare hook will not float; it will slowly sink.

A weightless Zoom Trick on a 3/0 round offset hook is one of my prime go-to’s. Sometimes that slow sink gets bites. If not, working it back to the boat or shore in various ways does the trick (pun intended). Never tried the black but I use Mann’s Jelly Worms in Blackberry (which is almost black) and they catch bass, too. But the Trick Worm is a great producer for sure. 

I end up pouring a ton of black baits. When I remelt my odds and ends I add black colorant. Those black baits (from finesse worms to creatures) are some of the best fish catchers I make. 

Great post, I gave all likes. Don’t know of the Swindell video and trick worms but a weighted/weightless black cut tail is one of my favorite worms to fish. 

14 hours ago, Skunkmaster-k said:

I watched a video on you tube with Gerald Swindle saying a black trick worm is his favorite for a floating worm so I bought all the black trick worms I could find. Is black good all the time or only in dirty water ?

Black seems to work all the time.

I've caught more bass on black worms than any other color. But then again I throw it more than any other color....

Try a magnum black trickworm drives them nuts!

I throw Trick worms a lot if the bite is slow.  I will use a 1/32 weight to assure a slow fall.  I like to rig a number of ways, but one of my favorite is wacky.  The trick worm has tons of movement with the slightest twitch of the line.  I will often let it drop all the way to the bottom and then snap it up a few feet and let it flutter back down.  The bite often happens on the way back down.  Black, junebug, and any of the watermelon colors are my go too colors.  The worse the water clarity the darker I will use.

I keep a bag or three on hand pretty much all the time, pretty bold buying up all the black trick worms you can find based on a single video though, I hope the fish in your area like to eat them!

Trick Worm, 3/0 hook (style dealer's choice), 1/2" nail weight in the tail.

 

It'll fall horizontal ?

Mid Summer to Mid Fall last year I caught a pile of bass on a black Trickworm on a shaky head in 4' to 8' visibility.

I once won a tournament throwing a weightless black Trick Worm at a culvert. 
Yeah, I like em.

I like dark colors but I feel like I get less bites on pure black. Dark green/purple/blue though, quite good.

49 minutes ago, Michigander said:

I like dark colors but I feel like I get less bites on pure black. Dark green/purple/blue though, quite good.

Motor oil is probably my favorite color after black. 

Pick yourself up some Zoom fat finesse worms in black also...Killer producer.

While I agree that black is a great color for pretty much all conditions, I do subscribe to the theory that different colors - fleck, in this thread - be added to a lure. I believe that a bass will see some color that will entice it to strike. 
I also still believe that some fat old man in a red suit still comes down my chimney like a fire pole once a year too.
But I have issues.

You think the black trick worms are good, try the Blackberry (read black)  Mann's Jelly worms.

On 2/26/2021 at 11:53 PM, Skunkmaster-k said:

I watched a video on you tube with Gerald Swindle saying a black trick worm is his favorite for a floating worm so I bought all the black trick worms I could find. Is black good all the time or only in dirty water ?

No one was supposed tell you! Dang it G man!!! 
 

black trick worm is indeed awesome. Cut them in half and you’ve got 40 “poor man ned rigs” 

What about black flukes ?