My favorite soft plastic color overall in green pumkin followed by solid black. Below are my favorite colors from different manufacturers that are not common colors.

 

Yamamoto= Natural shad, its a smoke with sparce black and gold flake. For clear water nothing else looks as much like a minnow to me so it is a tie between this and GP for top senko color.

SK= Crawdaddy which is brownish/black and orange. Can't think of another company that makes a color like this.

RI= California 420, hate the name but this is a great color period.

Zoom= Scuppernong, this is just a translucent brown that works in clear water. The biggest bass I caught in the Potomac River (6-7) was on this color.

Gitzit= Brown, looks black until you hold it up to the light.

Keitech= Natural craw, GP no flake over brown/orange bottom. This color just looks like the crayfish in our area and works. Baits are not very durable.

 

So, what does everyone else like?

 

Allen

I like many of your color patterns. On the river

Roadkill, Rootbeer and Sand are productive as well. Been fishing whites over the last few seasons more. White had been a color I really never fished. 

Zoom Junebug and Candy bug

I generally keep my colors simple. Green pumpkin is green pumpkin. Black blue fleck is black blue fleck. But there are a few unique one's out there that I enjoy. 

 

Keitech - Bluegill color is so good for literally any moving bait presentation (swim jig, chatterbait, swimbait, etc)

Missile - Superbug is the most perfect colormashup ever. Green pumpkin and black/blue fleck all in one bait. 

Rage Tail - Bama Bug is a mix up of green pumpkin and junebug (purple w/ green fleck)

 

 

9 hours ago, Munkin said:

Gitzit= Brown, looks black until you hold it up to the light.

I'm almost out of those. They catch all species everywhere. I like to run a chartreuse marker down the back. It turns a dark green with the dark brown belly.

 

Yum Dinger. I think they all work but am partial to Junebug and Bamabug.

Blue, black, or junebug is about 50% of my soft plastics.  Another 25% is green pumpkin or watermelon, which I seem to buy more often than I use (water is pretty stained around here). 

 

The remaining is mostly white, chartreuse, or some kind of shad/minnow looking color swimbait.  And I make sure to always have a package of Zoom Trick Worms in Methiolate, as that color absolutely kills for like a two week window during the prespawn, and at other random times throughout the year when nothing else seems to work. 

 

I also fish a lot of "trash brown", which is whatever color I get when I remelt my old plastics.  It seems to work pretty well.  And let me tell you, that Methiolate color is really strong and will take over if you use much of it! 

Rage Tail Blue Craw

RageTail Blue craw or Zoom Arkansas Shiner 

Junebug

Green Pumpkin Magic 

White (flukes/swimbaits)

black/blue fleck and green pumpkin all rolled into one is about all I fish.  Many different names for the combo from the different manufacturers.  money, tramp stamp, superbug...all the same color

Yamamoto - gp, watermelon blk/ watermelon blk with red / June bug

Roboworms- oxblood, Aaron magic, margaritas

Zoom- white, white with chart tail, gp or watermelon blk flake

Missle baits- gp / black and blue

Big bites- gp / black and blue

Z man- gp / black and blue

Duo, daiwa, osp plastics- gp / black and blue

Custom salvation jigs - texas craw and Missouri craw

Soft plastics vary lake to lake and lighting conditions. 
Injection molded soft plastics are different from hand pours.

I use very few over the counter colored soft plastics. Yamamoto is one exception and use 221, 301 and 330.

Where I fish Shad colors are preferred; smoke with black and fine silver, gold flakes with blue or purple neon. Cinnamon w/ fine red flakes and neon blue or purple.

Tom

Reaction Innovations- big texan, bloody pumpkin

ISG- roadkill camo

Missle- El Diablo, super bug

Yamamoto- watermelon/cream laminate, orange pumpkin/black & green flake

Zoom- chartreuse pumpkin, chameleon, tomato, (more)

Slider- camouflage

Berkley- skeet's hot craw, breen

 

I only fish Googan plastics. Bandito Bug and Mondo Worms in Sprayed Lettuce

Any company that makes a blue sapphire or flipping blue variation.

 

Any PB&J variation 

 

Bama Craw ( GP/ orange)

 

Bama Bug (GP/Junebug)

 

Okeechobee Craw (GP/blue)

 

Smoke purple neon black

 

Black blue neon

 

Black red neon

 

Cali 420

 

Junebug

 

Redbug

 

Plum

 

Blue fleck

 

Motoroil

 

I primarily fish a lot of gizzard shad/shad imitation colors like TN shad/Green Shad/Gizzard Shad/Sexy Shad/Arkansas Shiner/smoke pearl/white etc.  this applies to hard and soft baits.  White / shad is the deal around here for the really big fish a lot of the time.

I agree with lots of people above.  Here's one that sticks out that wasn't mentioned, bruiser baits intruder XL.  GP/Junebug tips.  Absolutely looks killer paired up with DJ hematoma skirt.

 

scott

 

10 hours ago, fishballer06 said:

Rage Tail - Bama Bug

Ding ding ding. 

Zoom plum apple, scuppernong, tequila sunrise, cranberry, black grape

I agree California 420 is a really great color as well, across multiple companies

BLACK

I like many colors, and use a variety of them. But there is one color that is my favorite of any company that makes it -- a light brown pumpkin base with green flakes. 

 

A number of companies have a version of it, and give it different names, with some variation in how dark and how much orange-red the base color has.  Unfortunately, it can be hard to find as it is not always stocked, and even companies who produce it only make it available for one or a few baits.  I would buy every plastic bait in this color if I could.

 

The "type specimen" for my taste is Berkley's  "Pumpkin Green fleck",  available in the Power Bait chigger craw:

 

 

Other companies with something highly similar -- these would all have to count as my favorite color for each company, in the baits for which it is available:

 

Strike King Rage Tail: "Amber-green" (Rage Craw)

Strike King Perfect Plastics: "Amistad Special" (Game Hawg; Ocho)

GYCB: "Rootbeer Black & Green" (Hula Grub).  They also have "Pumpkin Black & green", which is a bit too red for what I'm looking for.

Zoom has two: "Rootbeer Pepper Green" (Tube, Brush hawg, Z-craw, Double-tai) & "Gourd Green" (Lizard, Trick Worm)

Big Bite Baits: "Pumpkin Green Pepper" (Squirrel Tail worm, Lizard, Tube, others)

Mister Twister: "Pumpkin Green pepper" (Phenom worm, Grubs)

Chompers: "Rootbeer Green Flake" (Double-tails)

Kalin's: "Pumpkin Salt & Pepper Green Flake" (Grubs)

 

2 minutes ago, MIbassyaker said:

I like many colors, and use a variety of them. But there is one color that is my favorite of any company that makes it -- a light brown pumpkin base with green flakes. 

 

 

 

Deps #13 and #14 would be right up your alley, as well as these 2 skirt colors even though the pics don't do them justice...

 

gambler skirt; tan green gold

 

zorro casting jig skirt (excellent low to medium grass jig); pumpkin green

 

 

 

scott

So many baits to think of ??

But junebug,redbug, watermelon red or orange make up most of the baits I use. The KVD Ocho and the Yum spine craw are the big players last month or so. 

Black-n-Blue skirted jig with a sapphire blue trailer.

Black Neon skirted jig with a black neon trailer.

Okeechobee Craw skirted jig with either a Okeechobee Craw or Green Pumpkin blue claw trailer.

 

Worms/lizards/craws

Watermelon Neon 

Black blue tail

Redbug 

White

Green Pumpkin blue tail 

 

That's basics 😉

Green pumpkin, black/blue, junebug, black, and some sort of shad color.

On 7/10/2024 at 7:08 PM, softwateronly said:

I agree with lots of people above.  Here's one that sticks out that wasn't mentioned, bruiser baits intruder XL.  GP/Junebug tips.  Absolutely looks killer paired up with DJ hematoma skirt.

 

scott

 

 

That color looks interesting!

 

Allen