Whats your favorite colors for fishing the north east? Most of the forage in the lakes I fish are craws, sunfish, perch, and some alewifes in one.

I have had good luck with-

Jerkbaits- perch

Plastics- black with blue flake and green pumkin

cranks- brown

For me it's white spinnerbaits, green pumpkin or motor oil plastics, and brown cranks too

Spinnerbait- Skirt is mix of cotton candy, light chart and clear

Jig- Brown Orange

Hula Grub- Green Pumpkin

Crankbait- Shad color

Buzzbait- All white

Worms- Blue Fleck

Soft Jerkbait / swimbait - Pearl

Watermelon Seed, Watermelon Red, Pumkin Red, June Bug-Lizards/Plastics. Shad-Cranks. Chartruse and Green-Spinnerbaits. Watermelon and Blue-Jigs. Clear/White-Spooks. Green and Yellow-Kermy Frogs.

Spinnerbait- white

Jig- Brown/black

Crankbait- firetiger

Worms- Blue Fleck

Frog - Black

Plastic Craws - Red Shad/Junebug/Tequila Sunrise

Nearly all my soft plastics are some kind of green or brown, along with a few dark blues. Lake st.clair is a pretty clear lake and the natural color's are always what works for me. As for spinnerbaits, white or a bluegill pattern, just make sure the blade combo is right and you are good to go. Also, go here http://reddirtbaits....viewDoc&docId=7 and the third color in the top row is actually what caught most of my spinnerbait fish this year. Can't really speak for hardbaits but I was slaying the pike on yellow perch colored x-raps.

Plastics, that's a broad category.

Worms - Tequila sunrise, red shad, black, junebug, green pumpkin and watermelon.

Craws - Black/blue flake, green pumpkin and brown/orange.

Grubs - White, black, watermelon/red glitter, smoke/silver gglitter, black, chartreuse

Spinnerbaits - White, white/chartreuse, black.

Crankbaits - Shad colors, crawdad colors and bluegill.

Lipless crankbaits - Chrome w/blue or black, shad, red craw, and solid black.

Jigs - Black/blue, green pumpkin, and browns.

Topwaters and frogs - Black, brown or green frog patterns.

Tom

It seems like I end up buying Green Pumpkin every time I buy a new bait.

Finesse worms - smoke or clear w/flake, also most of the roboworm colors work for me

Worms, creatures, craws - Green pumpkin, watermelon, brown, black, junebug

Spinnerbaits - white/chart, bluegill, junebug

Jerkbaits - Perch, silver/black

Crankbaits - craw colors, chartreuse, bluegill

Topwaters- Frog, perch, black

So I guess that you have a pretty good idea on what to throw across the country...surprisingly enough all that stuff works where you live too. I guess that the key is how much you want to spend on each type of bait and how much you're going to throw them. Black and blue and brown and orange crayfish live here...herring and alewifes are also a mainstay in your area. There are plenty of white perch and yellow perch and blue gills that the bass forage on as well. If you try to match the hatch on your body of water then you can't go too far wrong.

grandpa whats a good alewife and herring color

spinnerbait- white

worms- pumpikin seed, watermelon seed, tequila sunrise