Can anyone tell me what the color "hitch" is supposed to be? I see thais color on alot of advertised swimbaits and cant figure out what the deal is.

I looked it up and found this:

Not a clue it looks great though!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavinia_exilicauda

Ok that answers that question,so whats AYU?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayu

Another type of fish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayu

Another type of fish.

That grilled ayu looked pretty gross.

                -sm

here in utah, some of the forage fish are chubs. they look a lot like that. brown back sometimes and it works pretty good to match the hatch with a hitch swimbait.

That color is just almost dead on to what the threadfin shad look like here. Add a spot and that's it.