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Whats your favorite soft plastic color for clear clear water?

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So me and my dad recently went fishing again at a lake that is very clear and we had decent luck. I caught a 3lb bass and my dad caught a nice 5lb 9oz bass that was 1 inch from a citation. We caught both of them on a texas rigged watermelon senko. I was just wondering what soft plastics and what colors would do good in this clear clear lake. It is also very small but very deep.

Thanks for the help.

i love almost everything in the "baby bass" color

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Watermelon or smoke.

Allen

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glad to hear smoke because me and my dad just went out and got 2 packs of smoke colored senkos.

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Watermelon..I have some success with hologram shad too.. ;D

anything natural colored, watermelons, green pumpkins, smoke...

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Green pumkin is a great middle of the road bait.It works in some pretty stained water and also clear water due to matching it's surroundings.

I really like pumkinseed too.

If the water is really really clear then smoke and any translucent variation therof works great.

Watermelons are a natural choice as well and I really prefer to use them around vegetation.I like the red flake versions when the water has a little bit of green tint to it.

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Green pumpkin, and Watermelon red for me as well. In the lakes I fish milfoil, coontail, and eelgrass are the most prominate forms of vegitation and when the water's clear both colors blend in well and don't give the fish too good of a look at it, which in clear water helps IMHO.

Smoke blue fleck/Smoke pepper

Smoke/Pepper, Oxblood and Cinnamon/Blue are very popular "Go To" colors of plastics out here in the clear deep waters of California

In really clear waters I like to use tubes and grubs. I also like finesse worms in the usual, watermelon, pumpkin and any natural looking color

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Baby bass, natural baitfish hues, pumpkin, watermelon, or smoke. Just get colors that match the common forage.

Watermelonseed, Watermelon Red, Green Pumpkin Purple and Smoke Purple are some of my most productive colors. Baits with small purple flakes have been real good to me the last couple of years.

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Watermelon is my No. 1 color choice for deep, clear water. But I won't hesitate to make a switch. Green pumpkin (actually brown!) is my go-to in stained water. Smoke is always my back-up. A 6" Smoke w/black flake Senko will catch anything that swims!  ;)

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Green Pumpkin will work anywhere.

Green Pumpkin/Red Flake or Pumpkinseed/Chartuese good in darker water. Don't be afraid to try anything. Sometimes "thinking out of the box" will surprise you (and the fish).

Great colors have been mentioned already! I use watermelon/red flake, baby bass, smoke and shad colors with alot of success! One other color that I use in clear water is red shad and have done very well with this color too!  ;)

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For in and around vegetation, anything green.

For bottom bouncing, rocks and wood, browns.

In very clear water, a bit of camouflage is a good thing.

natural colors.  

Senko  something white or shad like

bottom watermelon or gp colors.

Zoom trick worm in any natural looking color like dull greens and browns. I fish them weightless on the surface or texas rigged in moderate depths from 7-10 feet deep.

Wow I am amazed Junebug hasn't been mentioned, it has worked very well for me.

I love junebug for stained water.

watermelon seed and in zoom split tailed worm'd flavor.. those things slay bass.

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