If you could only pick one for worms, creatures, any soft plastic in general for clearer water. Would you pick GP or watermelon red flake?

Try both.  Alternate use for a day.  One will work better.  That will become your confidence color and you'll never need to buy the other again.

If I had to choose one it would be both, a gp/wm laminate, aka california 420

Watermelon red spring, gp summer

Watermelon Neon ?

I would go with GP

Out of those two, Watermelon red. Overall favorite color, Okeechobee Craw. 

6 hours ago, Bass Rutten said:

california 420

California 420 is a GREAT all-around color

 

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Zoom has added an exciting new color California 420 to their lineup.  California  420 features a dark (almost black) top with red flake and a watemelon red bottom.

Zoom pro staffer Gerald Swindle has been fishing with this color for awhile now and loves it’s versatility.

“I normally have colors that I call ‘clear water’ or ‘dirty water” colors,” said Swindle.  “But California 420 is one of the very few colors I have ever used that seems to be effective in both.  It’s not a color you look at and really say ‘wow,’ but I have caught fish using this color from Clearlake, California to Lake Wheeler, Alabama to Lake Toho, Florida

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Asking people around the country to recommend a color for the waters around your area is not going to give you the best choice. Those are both fine colors, you can’t go wrong with either of them and you’d do better with both tools in your toolbox.

Took 5 replies for someone to actually answer the question. Why is It so difficult? He didn’t ask people around the country to recommend a color for his waters. He said if YOU could only pick one, which would It be. Lol. I love forums. 
 

btw, green pumpkin. 

16 minutes ago, Cbump said:

Took 5 replies for someone to actually answer the question. Why is It so difficult? He didn’t ask people around the country to recommend a color for his waters. He said if YOU could only pick one, which would It be. Lol. I love forums. 

Maybe I was interpreting too much.  In my mind, the OP wouldn't really give two cents to find out what I thought was best for me in my water....but just maybe he wanted to find out what might be best for him in his water.   So perhaps the question is flawed more than the answers.  Why should anyone ever have to make an absolute binary decision between two different greens?  Based totally on information not included or understood. 

   My response was a bit cheeky, but I do think that it will be as beneficial to the op as any one recommending he choose between one or the other.

12 hours ago, washedkevin said:

If you could only pick one for worms, creatures, any soft plastic in general for clearer water. Would you pick GP or watermelon red flake?

Both.

4 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

Both.

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Around here we almost always have some color to the water so for me its green pumpkin hands down.

Trick worms watermelon red. Craws green pumpkin. 

Whoops. I read the question wrong. Watermelon red.