Hello everyone, 

I moved a few years ago up north where lakes don't have shad (blue gill and perch are the main forage) Where I come from white spinnerbaits kill it. I'm so used to fish them that I use them here regularly and never thought about switch to the colors of the hatch .. I don't have any fishing friends in the area so I don't have any direct source of information. 

 

What you guys think makes the white spinnerbait so successful?? should I be looking at other colors?? I bought a few Picasso spinners and all in white variations when I thought about it for the first time. 

 

thanks for your comments!

 

 

 

I have no idea why white, or predominately white, baits are productive here in the mid-west. I use them because they catch fish.  Shad imitating cranks are a good producer as well, the majority of the coloring is white.

You could ask why green pumpkin is so successful in the south where the main forage is shad, or blue back herring? Does it really matter why?

More then half of the lakes I fish dont have shad.  For whatever reason white or white based spinnerbaits just catch fish seemingly anywhere, particularly on cloudy and or windy days.

I don't think any of the lakes I fish have any thing that resembles a baby brush hog in them, but they seem to work.

I use white Spinnerbaits in Ozark rivers where shad are either not present or are not in any great number. Also, white is the only color I have confidence in.

A white spinnerbait with a gold willow or indiana blade can be killer on overcast days in stained water. I think white is so productive because it looks like a generic baitfish profile that can be anything. I think bass bite it out of interest more than anything. But then I remember bass are also opportunistic predators. 

white (with chartreuse cuz you just have to) stands out so well in green pond water, my first 8 years of bass fishing as a kid were with a white and chartreuse spinnerbait in a pond with only bluegills and crappies

Bass don’t know what they’re eating for the most part. I think it’s the vibration and flash that make them like spinner baits. As long as the color is visible to them in the water and light conditions I don’t feel it matters much. The research I saw said that bass see chartreuse as white so it probably only matters to us. 

White works well, but so does every other color. 

I don't believe anyone knows why a bass hits one color lure over another?  The obvious answer from a fisherman's point of view is white looks like a shad and chartreuse looks like a shiner or blue gill. I believe blade size and flash are more significant with spinnerbaits than the color of the body.  About twenty years ago, I was fishing a large State buddy tournament on the Harris Chain.  My partner was one of the best bass fisherman in Central Florida. I hadn't had much luck in practice.  The day of the tournament, my partner ran us to the same area where I had been fishing.  In my mind I was thinking there were no fish there.  He pulled out an all white Terminator with silver blades and proceeded to catch bass.  I had been fishing a gold spinnerbait with a chartreuse and white skirt and gold blades.   I switched to a white Terminator with silver blades and we got a check.  Since then, I carry both silver/white and gold/chartreuse and that's all I ever need. 

 

 

8 hours ago, Gera said:

What you guys think makes the white spinnerbait so successful??

 

The same thing that makes black-n-blue, green pumpkin, or junebug successful...the bass like em! 

 

Trying to analyze it can  be fun but sometimes ya just throw em.

6 hours ago, jbsoonerfan said:

I don't think any of the lakes I fish have any thing that resembles a baby brush hog in them, but they seem to work.

I threw  a cast net once and filled the livewell with spinnerbaits in one throw...

lol. i don think the color really matters that much. flash/vibration/reaction.also the underside of alot of bait fish are white. in a couple of our lakes that dont have shad i fish bluegill colored spinnerbaits and they work, but so does white.

I like the bright colors like white and chartreuse early on but in spring everybody around here is throwing bright spinnerbaits . After several weeks of it bass seem to wise up then I switch to duller baits to keep the bite going .

Any color will do, as long as it's white.

 

56 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

I threw  a cast net once and filled the livewell with spinnerbaits in one throw...

That's a lost art right there!

I've been beat down before here in NY standing next to a guy throwing a white spinnerbait while I was throwing a bluegill color. Funny, all it took was that one experience to make me more open-minded about spinnerbaits in general.

 

I don't know man! White is just a good color.

6 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I don't know man! White is just a good color.

White  just shows up and any color water IMHO. I love fishing white anything.

 

BTW: Between you and I, throw a few strands of pink on your white spinnerbaits. 

9 minutes ago, Jigfishn10 said:

BTW: Between you and I, throw a few strands of pink on your white spinnerbaits

I will definitely try it. I already have a few of these

Labeled as "white and red" but in person, the red is a pink color. 

 

Humdinger rubber skirts

2 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I will definitely try it. I already have a few of these

Labeled as "white and red" but in person, the red is a pink color. 

 

Humdinger rubber skirts

WHOA! That's BOMB.COM!

The size and flash brings them to it and the color can be anything so they figure…What the Heck!!

 

Or Not

 

 

 

 

Mike

10 hours ago, Gera said:

What you guys think makes the white spinnerbait so successful??

It looks like a vulnerable meal.  Same as any other bait that gets bit.

35 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I will definitely try it. I already have a few of these

Labeled as "white and red" but in person, the red is a pink color. 

 

Humdinger rubber skirts

Wouldnt be surprised if  that style skirt  made a huge comeback some day . 

1 hour ago, Jigfishn10 said:

That's a lost art right there!

You're welcome.

4 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

You're welcome.

Yes, thankyou. 

Noticed the the cast net was white.