I've had some good success with green pumpkin colored Zoom lizards on my local moss filled pond. Well, the bite died off with those. Over the course of another month, I tried them off and on and didn't have any success.

 

I didn't have any darker lizards but I wanted to try a black one, so I decided to try using a sharpie to color one black. I did such, and I fished it one night and got a bass the first 5 minutes. No further success with it however. I didn't fish it much longer, maybe 10 more minutes, and I switched lures and then spots. But it did suggest to me that black ones might produce when the green won't, at least at night.

 

I also had seen that bass likely wouldnt bite a sharpie colored soft plastic because of the smell. Well, it wasn't a very large sample size for the test, but it does indicate that sharpie smell isn't bass repellent. I had let the lure cure about 6 hours I think.

 

Whats everyone else's opinions on black lizards either in the daytime or night?

There's a thread going now by Darth- Baiter on black baits. A lot of guys use them. Black lizard  at night should work good. If your using a sharpie to color them, give them a shot of some fish attractant spray.

Used lots of black lizards. They work well. 

It’s kinda gotten to the point where if I am on a new body of water and I don’t know what the really hot colors for soft plastics are yet, I’m probably going to start with black. It’s probably going to work. It’s just a question of how good 

Love black lizards with a blue tail. I caught my PB with one about 12 years ago.

Thanks for the replies all. I have been keeping up with the black lure thread. My thread here is specific to black lizards, not black baits in general. 

9 minutes ago, Bazoo said:

My thread here is specific to black lizards

 

Black Neon ?

6 hours ago, Catt said:

 

Black Neon ?

Lordy day... what has this world come to?

 

How does the black neon work vs straight black? Have you (or anyone) ever seen a switch from black to black neon cause the bite to improve?

Black Neon gets enough bites for me to no longer buy Black.

Thanks Catt, I won't turn my nose up at Black Neon the next time I get to the store.