Hi all.

 

Omnia's having a sale on Rapala DT cranks and I'm looking to pick up some DT-10's. What colors should I get for these MN lakes?

Demon

 

Bluegill or perch if they make it in those colors and have it.

1 hour ago, roadwarrior said:

Demon

No matter what time of year, my demon and red crawdads get ignored here...sorry man.

 

22 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Bluegill or perch if they make it in those colors and have it.

 

DT series has: Bluegill, Perch, Yellow Perch, Live Bluegill, Live Pumpkinseed... all good choices

I'm actually thinking of trimming down to just those as they seem to be the only colors that catch bass here.

1 minute ago, MN Fisher said:

No matter what time of year, my demon and red crawdads get ignored here...sorry man.

 

 

DT series has: Bluegill, Perch, Yellow Perch, Live Bluegill, Live Pumpkinseed... all good choices

I'm actually thinking of trimming down to just those as they seem to be the only colors that catch bass here.

I don't know about MN, but the old Rapala Yellow Perch color works well for me everywhere, whether there are perch in the lake or not.

I’m nowhere close to MN either but I want to echo what everyone else has been saying. The ‘perch’ and even more natural looking ‘yellow perch’ are great everywhere I’ve used them. I think a lot of inland bass in the northern part of the continent feed heavily on young of the year sunfish and perch, so those colours are perfect. 

2 minutes ago, Finessegenics said:

I think a lot of inland bass in the northern part of the continent feed heavily on young of the year sunfish and perch, so those colours are perfect. 

Yes, that's accurate.

 

Sunfish are generally the primary prey fish that largemouth target in more weedy, shallow-type lakes here and perch are the primary prey fish that smallmouth target in bigger, clear lakes.  We have a lot of lakes here but most of them are of the smaller, weedier variety that have populations of largemouth.  There's not as many lakes with smallmouth, although the rivers here have brown bass.  Crayfish comprise a very large portion of smallmouth bass diet here, in both lakes and rivers.

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