Shadish= White, grey, smoke silicone with double nickel willows.

 

Night= 1/2oz black with a size 5 black colorado.

 

Later I will take some pics of the exact baits I am throwing.

 

Allen

I need to branch out to Blue Gill and Golden Shiner color spinner baits … I have enough white and white / chartreuse spinner baits to last several life times ! 

There was a time when I carried a plastic box spinnerbait kit in my boat with every color skirt and blade available. I don't believe there is any combination that doesn't work at some time or another.  These days, I fish for fun and I only throw one bait.   That bait is a 3/8 oz. Hildebrandt Okeechobee Special with gold blades and a white and chartreuse skirt. It matches the native gold shiners that our big bass prefer.  I have seen days when the fish want silver blades and all white skirt. In my opinion, spinner bait fishing is more about where and how you throw the bait, not what bait you throw. 

 

 

Could've put this in the Bait Monkey thread, but just got this Dirty Jigs pack - quite like the colors, and should do well in my various spots. Haven't thrown Dirty spinnerbaits yet, so we'll see (though I have a bunch of Nichols)

This week I found a bite on a 1/4 chartreuse single Colorado blade in the shallows. Catching dinks but still fun. I've been reading about how colors look under water and how fish see them and this has given me new perspective and pushed me to try more chartreuse and other things which don't look to my eyes like anything natural. 

Years ago I used to catch lot on a black and green skirt.  But that's what I read in a magazine article, so that's what I fished.  I may have caught just as many or more on any other color if I'd have just fished it.  I think often once we catch fish on something, we gain confidence it so continue to fish it and of course keep catching fish with it.

4 hours ago, FishTax said:

This week I found a bite on a 1/4 chartreuse single Colorado blade in the shallows. Catching dinks but still fun. I've been reading about how colors look under water and how fish see them and this has given me new perspective and pushed me to try more chartreuse and other things which don't look to my eyes like anything natural. 

I'm interested in those articles, if you happen to have the links to them handy, or could give me an idea of what to search for to better help me find them.

@Bazoo I don't recall what all I"ve read, but I use 'read' loosely  Go on the tube and search 'colors fish see'. I'm not sure if you'll get the same results as me or not due to the algorithm, but that's where I'd start. I'll see if I can find anything specific and will send to you if I do