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Chartreuse Spinnerbaits?

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  • Super User

Seen Chris Johnson's video about them and now I'm thinking about picking one up/making up one from the parts I have. Anyone here thing they are fire?

  • Super User

I've been known to dabble in that realm. 

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New flash, Mr Jones didn't invent this.

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A-Jay

  • Super User

Fish in my profile pic was caught on one of these.

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Variants of chartreuse are some of my favorites for spinnerbaits and shad representations.

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  • Super User

It's a color I rarely through on a spinnerbait, and never as a solid. Thinking about getting a couple in solid chartreuse to test out.

 

  • Super User

Research has shown that bass have a difficult time telling the difference between yellow and white.  The green tint in chartreuse should be noticeable to a bass.  I don't know if bass can tell the difference but I can and it's one of my favorite colors.

  • Super User

I like a chartreuse skirt on a spinnerbait when the water is murky or stained.

  • Super User

Been throwing Chartreuse forever. 

  • Super User

Just doesn't work very well for me.  That said chartreuse/white is the most popular color sold.

 

Allen 

  • Super User

Chartreuse / pearl white is a staple spinnerbait color for decades.

 Chartreuse / blue was also very popular bluegill color that has falling off the radar but still works good.

Tom

  • Super User

Many years ago, fishing a club torurnament, the angler I was partnered with won it throwing a chartreuse bait with chartreuse Colorado blades. He limited both days where I only caught a few throwing every spinnerbait I had. I throw chartreuse a lot now.

I have fished them for years. Overcast days are the best. It's what I caught my PB on.

  • Super User
3 hours ago, Tennessee Boy said:

Research has shown that bass have a difficult time telling the difference between yellow and white.  The green tint in chartreuse should be noticeable to a bass.  I don't know if bass can tell the difference but I can and it's one of my favorite colors.

I seem to recall a study discussed here on BR some time ago that concluded bass respond favorably to chartreuse.  Stuck in my mind because it was a more controlled experiment than any other I've ever read about.   I always kept chartreuse JJs Magic on hand after reading that. 

   Edit:  Just re-read the study and my take-aways back then were off.  Chartreuse is good, but maybe not much, if any, better than white.  Of course, even knowing what colors bass can distinguish doesn't necessarily translate to all water conditions, nor whether they are predisposed to eat said distinguishable colors.

 

https://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/204678-latest-color-research-bass-vision/

Chartreuse and pearl is one of my two favorite colors for a spinnerbait and prefer that one when the water is dirty and the visibility is lower. Also like that color with the bass puzzle grass piece. The other color I usually go with is white with some sort of albino or shad type pattern.

  • Super User

I don’t fish spinnerbaits much, but if I do, it’s mostly a chartreuse and white. Same with chatterbaits. 
 

interesting factoid: chartreuse is named after the liqueur Chartreuse, made by the Carthusian monks since 1605 from a secret recipe of 130 herbs and plants and comes in two main varieties: Green Chartreuse, a more potent and herbaceous liqueur, and Yellow Chartreuse, which is sweeter and mellower. The green Chartreuse is 110 proof. 

  • Super User

I seriously think the only reason I know the name (or how to even spell it) of that color is because of fishing lures.  

 

 

Chartreuse is the juice.

  • Super User

White chartreuse is about all I throw for spinnerbaits!

  • Super User

I didn’t know they came in any other color.

I fish Lanier, Keowee, Jocassee, Hartwell, Russell and Clark Hill (I live on Hartwell). I only throw a full chartreuse spinnerbait; always with painted chartreuse blades. Double willow the majority of the time if water is clear and a single painted Colorado blade if water is stained.

Down here....chartreuse is the secret sauce for big spotted bass. When 95% of everyone is throwing white, us other 5% is tossin' Chartreuse and sackin' bigs. Spinnerbaits, jerkbaits, flukes, chatterbaits, crankbaits.....chartreuse gets bit.

  • Super User

I am fond of chartreuse with gold blades or chartreuse with painted blades. For lightly stained-heavily stained water mostly, though I have thrown it effectively in clear water, too.

15 hours ago, A-Jay said:

I've been known to dabble in that realm. 

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New flash, Mr Jones didn't invent this.

:smiley:

A-Jay

You must be very popular with the Northern Pike! LOL 😆 

 

They like that color here too..I'm guessing due to perch.

The lakes I fish have dirty water and bluegill is the main forage.  A bait with black skirt and gold blades gets bit more than any other color.

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3 hours ago, RRocket said:

You must be very popular with the Northern Pike! LOL 😆 

LOL~ ~

Each season, I get what always seems like more than my share. 

Occasionally I'll actually put on wire and target them.

That's always a good time.

Either way, the biggest ones inevitably come as bycatch.

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A-Jay

 

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