I rarely if ever fish with black plastics.  I just ordered some to try. Various creatures in black. Mainly because the usual colors I like were sold out, but black?   10 feet down, there isn’t much light.  Black probably stands out in contrast, right?

 

black?  

I love black, and if I could only fish one color of soft plastic it would be black or purple, that's why my favorite is black grape.   

 

That said, there is so many options that play well with black that going with all black in 2023 seems rudimentary.   Personally, I just think black pairs so well with blue, red, and purple.    A mix of those is what I'm usually fishing. 

 

Green pumpkin if the viz gets beyond 3-5ft range, but I mainly fish in that 3-5ft range.   

Given the waters I fish, black is my 3rd favorite plastic and 2nd favorite frog color 

Always have ready to go

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

A black finesse worm on a shaky head is  very effective where I fish . 

I use black with blue flakes, worms and creatures. I’m going to get some black grape. 

T rigged Gene Larew black salt craw on a wabble head is a bass getter.

 

TRD Yoga pants is also a very good Ned bait.

Black is one I always take with me.

Black... is such a good color. Not black and blue flake. Just black

I really like black worms on shaky heads a lot.  Seems like something will always hit that.

31 minutes ago, Jig Man said:

T rigged Gene Larew black salt craw on a wabble head is a bass getter.

 

TRD Yoga pants is also a very good Ned bait.

Yoga pants is the best color name ever. 

Always bet on black!

 

BTW, black plastics/jigs isn't just for stained/dirty water. One of the biggest misconceptions I see. 

Black trick worm on shaky head is my go to when nothing else works. 

I've been reading and seeing a lot of stuff concerning black soft plastics. I have done the same as @Darth-Baiter and purchased a few packs of different black soft plastics, Zoom in my case. Looking forward to trying them out.

@volzfan59good luck. 
 

I’ll try mine next weekend. 

7 minutes ago, Darth-Baiter said:

@volzfan59good luck. 
 

I’ll try mine next weekend. 

Thank buddy, I'm going to do my best to get out next week too. Hopefully in the morning.

My dad used to say you can catch a bass on any color worm as long as it's black. He later amended that to include purple. I use some version of black, black/blue, black/blue flake or blue/black more often than any other. It works better here than the pumpkins or watermelons. Our water is usually at least a little stained. I'll bet you catch at least as many on black if not more.

I carry very few black soft plastics. I don't feel I've missed out on anything. My go to dark color is black grape. However, some of my more productive topwaters are black and I've painted a few shallow cranks black. I've never experimented with other dark colors for those baits, although they'd likely work just as well.

I've not fished a lot of black, and I dont have any stocked. The other day I wanted to see how a black lizard would do...so I took a sharpie and colored one of my green ones. I went to my moss covered local pond that night and bam, it didn't take very long at all to get a nice <2 bass on that lizard. I fished a spell longer and nothing else, but definitely need to get some black lizards I think.

 

I have a black scumfrog... and I've never had any strikes on it, day or night. Not sure sure why. I've had good success on that pond with the pocket frog and the walmart popper frog. 

Black equals contrast.  

Second favorite color behind green pumpkin. Works in every water clarity. 

 

Allen 

4 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

I love black, and if I could only fish one color of soft plastic it would be black or purple, that's why my favorite is black grape.   

 

That said, there is so many options that play well with black that going with all black in 2023 seems rudimentary.   Personally, I just think black pairs so well with blue, red, and purple.    A mix of those is what I'm usually fishing. 

 

Green pumpkin if the viz gets beyond 3-5ft range, but I mainly fish in that 3-5ft range.   

I agree.

 

I too really like black paired up with purple...or a purple that's so dark it looks nearby black. Black with blue flake has produced nicely for me too.

 

And depending on the bait, solid black. I just bought some Cover Scat and definitely wanted it in black. It looks like a fat, juicy bug or perhaps a leech. It just looks like some invertebrate a bass will chomp. And boy, do they! 

 

For the waters I fish, black colors outfish green pumpkin by a huge margin. 

I dont use black much. When I first got seriously into bass fishing a black spinnerbait was my most productive lure for awhile.

Black Neon (red) plastics

South African Special plastics  

Lake Fork Worm Black Magic 

Black on black buzzbait 

Solid black jig with a sapphire blue trailer

Black/blue finesse worm on 1/8 pegged weight is very productive and on a dropshot " Aaron's magic ".

Cola and green pumpkin candy has put the most fish in the boat though.

 

Jigs ? Black/blue always does very well.

Black single Colorado spinnerbait, night or day, deep or shallow, muddy or clear.