What are your best colors for staind water? I usually keep it simple and throw a watermelon variation. anyone use green pumpkin in staind water with success?

Black and Blue, Chartreuse, avocado with red tail (zoom specific), and don't forget pearls!

Depends on your definition of "stained" Most every lake I fish is stained in my book and I do really well with GP. I usually save watermelon colors for clear water. In stained to dirty water I like bright colors, white, chartruese, orange, or dark colors, GP, black, purple, blue. I keep my color selection pretty simple, especially with plastics and jigs.

I like the blackest Black possible as so they see a silhouette.

If not this then I like something white or white bellied, sometimes chartreuse.

Like someone else said, I save the greens for clear water.

I'll throw a dark colored jig, blk/blue or blk/brn, a Citrus Shad cranks, or a chart. spinnerbait with Indiana blades.

With plastics,I have had success throwing the same colors in stained water that I do in gin clear water, watermelon red flake, and green pumpkin. Especialy on sunny days. Dark days I seem to get bit more on darker colors like junebug, or black and blue. If the water gets really dirty, I stay with the dark colors. Same with jigs. Chart/white for spinner baits. Cranks and other hard baits, I get away from the translucent body patterns I like in clear water, and go with old standbys like chart/blue back, It's more about presentation than color when water gets stained. They get tighter to cover, and often shallower.

Around my area there are two little groups of stained lakes that I fish regularly. One set of lakes has that dark "tea color" stain, on the darkest one I do really well with a purple w/emerald fleck (junebug) worm, then black as the sun light gets lower. There are some days where ill spend hours throwing everything in my bag at em just to see if I can catch one on something, anything else. Then low & behold I break out the purple worm & 3 casts in I'll hook into a 4 pounder lol. The other set of lakes has that "pea soup" color, on those lakes I like white/chartreuse worms, spinners, cranks. On both types of lakes I always catch fish on good old baby bass worms & flukes.

If speaking of worms I mostly wacky and my colors are Plum Apple, June Bug, Black/Blue laminate or swirl. Other than those I try anything with vibrations(chatterbait)

The lake I fished today had a nice stain to it .  A Tequila sunrise " laminated purple "was the only color I  caught fish on . After catching a  few I switched to chartreuse pumpkin no bites , Went back to purple and caught fish again . Later I tried straight black with no luck . Some days color makes a big difference .

 

 

I used the search function for worm color .I did not realize this was a five year old thread . LOL

Pure Black soft plastic baits are best in Muddy Water... The larger size baits give off more vibrations, plus insert rattles inside of them...

I like bright colors for crankbaits, and dark colors for plastics, and jigs.

On ‎3‎/‎8‎/‎2012 at 7:06 AM, ww2farmer said:

 They get tighter to cover, and often shallower.

 

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Good place to start