Clear (transparent) Plastics…….Grubs, Worms, Swim Baits

[Spankey]

Finding a clear with flakes is not easy. Not much out there. But there might be something behind that. I’ve had no desire to use or try it up to now. Very clear water is my thoughts to try it. 
Fat Albert’s work well for me. I have that coming in clear w/ silver & black, the Kalin Lunker Grubs I’ve fished with them forever. They have a Clear Hologram and I’m gonna try the ribbed PowerWorm in a white ice coming. I don’t want to go crazy on something that is experimental. I’m not sure how clear will work in stained conditions. I don’t fell that good about it. I think now in this clear water is the time to try it. If it doesn’t work out well I’m only out $10.00, can let others have some to try their hand. But I think the soft plastics above that I have coming I can fish them with confidence. How it works I’ll find out. 

[TnRiver46]

Some zoom offerings: salt and pepper , smokin’ green, smoke purple, smokin blue

[Glenn]

Kalins has clear salt/pepper grubs, clear w/gold flake, and smoke with salt/pepper are my go-to baits in clear water.  Don't overlook a sleeper like electric blue.   https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Kalins_Lunker_Grubs_10pk/descpage-KSLG.html?from=basres

 

Smoke tubes with pepper flake are also killer.

[WRB]

When transition from “clear” to translucent like smoke hundreds of off the shelf options are available.

For example 50% of Roboworns are translucent few are solid colors.

Tom

[Spankey]

20 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Some zoom offerings: salt and pepper , smokin’ green, smoke purple, smokin blue

We have been getting some long overdue downpours and rains. Suppose to push out tomorrow some time. River and lake is far from clear now. Hope to get out Sunday or Monday. Pretty sure I’m gonna have a spinnerbait tied on. 
I use that smoke color on tubes. 

[Spankey]

11 minutes ago, WRB said:

When transition from “clear” to translucent like smoke hundreds of off the shelf options are available.

For example 50% of Roboworns are translucent few are solid colors.

Tom

The RoboWorm is in my top three worms I throw and have tied on. Majority are solid laminated but I find Prism Shad and SXE Shad to be good baitfish imitation. 
They put out a great product. Many years ago I had to go to California. Work related. While I was out there in San Diego area a guy took me bass fishing. I’m from out east and he knew I bass fished. He turned me on to the RoboWorms. They were in no shops out here who had them hanging on a pegboard. Never showed up out here for a long time after. We were fishing 4.5”and 6” straight tails and curly tails we didn’t land a double digits but did catch bass. He let me take back home the stuff we were using. He said he know someone who worked there at (RoboWorm). 
One day after I came home from work there was a package in the mail from the guy whose equipment I repaired. Full of different packs of RoboWorm patterns. And a note how he Appreciated his equipment repaired. I’m not saying I’m the first guy out east to ever know of RoboWorms or to fish them. But I was of few and far inbetween anyone else locally to be fishing them. About how I got hooked on them. Nothing not to like about them. 

[volzfan59]

Just read on Bass Blaster that Big Bite Baits is coming out with a line of clear and clearish baits called Stealth. Looked pretty good.

[TOXIC]

4 minutes ago, volzfan59 said:

Just read on Bass Blaster that Big Bite Baits is coming out with a line of clear and clearish baits called Stealth. Looked pretty good.

Actually, Yamamoto but since they are now co-owned, I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t share. 

[fin]

8 hours ago, volzfan59 said:

Just read on Bass Blaster that Big Bite Baits is coming out with a line of clear and clearish baits called Stealth.

 

8 hours ago, TOXIC said:

Actually, Yamamoto

 

Well the tails are clear. I went over there looking for that article and ran across these:

 

 

[Spankey]

2 hours ago, fin said:

 

 

Well the tails are clear. I went over there looking for that article and ran across these:

 

 

 

10 hours ago, TOXIC said:

Actually, Yamamoto but since they are now co-owned, I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t share. 

Over the winter I’ll dig into finding a few clear(ish) baits in shapes I’d like to fish. The ones I have coming will be a good indicator of what kind of hits and bites I can achieve. I sort of was dragging butt on this idea and now we are getting slammed with real rains and when things will get gin clear will be the question. Should have acted a month ago. 
I’ll put together a clear baits care package. I did this the other year with pinks for the river smallies. For 50 years I’d never thrown pink for a smallie. Was told I was missing out. Personally I don’t think it’s a set the world on fire color but have caught them on pink worms, grubs and crankbaits. Recently picked up a pink Pop-r. Feel I could draw bites on a pink tube or craw but have never seen one. 

[volzfan59]

12 hours ago, TOXIC said:

Actually, Yamamoto but since they are now co-owned, I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t share. 

 

They must be sharing stuff. It's on Big Bite's website. Took a screenshot but it was to large to post.

[Glenn]

They make look similar, but - just like all the Senko knockoffs - they are not the same.

 

 

 

[fin]

It looks like BBB is offering the same or similar colors in several of their existing product lines. They might be sharing the flake. I don't know how pigmentation in plastisol works.

[fin]

The pictures on their site are not great, they look like they're translucent/frost, so I found a video short that shows that they are actually pretty clear. The bait monkey is jumping up and down in his chair next to me.

 

 

[Spankey]

Never thought when I made this post it would draw this much chatter around clear/transparent.

I seriously appreciate the comments and the heads up on some of these baits. 

[GetFishorDieTryin]

I have some luck on transparent and clear plastics in FW, like DSing Robos prism shad when the water is at its coldest. 

I've found I gravitate to those colors much more fishing inshore.  I use them for weakfish and stripers when they're keyed on very small bait, like rainfish or silver sides.  Those colors don't silhouette very well so you can get away with a 3" bait when what theyre eating is actually 2" or slightly under. 

 

[Bluebasser86]

Excited about the BBB lineup, some solid looking colors coming and I like their plastics already.

 

Yamamoto 4" grub, smoke/no flake on a 1/4 or 3/8 jighead just cast out and reeled back in is the easiest way to catch a fish on Table Rock.

[RB 77]

I have made them, used them and caught fish with them. I was on a trip and a fellow asked where I got my bait from because clear with red flake was one of his all time favorites and he couldnt find them anywhere. Clear (with or without flake) definetly works, but whats the fun in fishing that when there are so many diffrent colors to fish!