Thread: The Color Black

Originally Posted by Crestliner08

Recently saw a TV program featuring crappie fishing and the use of white and black (mostly) 2" tubes. They did not specify the manufacturer. They were fishing deep, vertically jigging these tubes. Catches were quite impressive. I've never used the color black for any of my panfish plastics. Just wondering if you folks use them and your thoughts as to the effectiveness.

Also...where do you find 2" black tubes? Thanks folks.

Shoot a PM to Snake River in the DIY Plastics forum. He will fix you up. Myself I prefer the black and chartreuse combinations.

Thanks for the responses guys. I use black/chart. a lot, but I've never used all black with tubes. Going to have to try to find some!

I did good but of research on this a while ago.
Look it up and you will find the same info I did I'm sure.
But. Black has the best contrast. Even at night. It silhouette the best. Why it is recomended for fishin at night. ESP surface fishing. There a bunch of neat info on it. It throws ya for a loop because you would think black is harder to see.

Stands to reason that when fish look up (and crappie feed up), that's the lightest background they're ever going to see so black would stand out against it the best... even at night.

I'd like to take a whole tackle box full of colors to the ocean and dive down at depth to see the color change. I've been watching a new tv show with guys commercial spearfishing. When they shoot those fish on the bottom, they're nowhere near the same color as they appear when they come to the surface. The red fish range from a dark gray to black when down several feet. Seems like all these "bleeding baits" had just as well have black or gray on them instead of red if fish perceive color the same way humans do.

Yes. On color chart I found red is one of the first colors to disappear. Green blue n purple held there color the deepest.

we make skirts only an inch and a half and we can make them solid black. send me a private message if you are interested.

Originally Posted by shipahoy41

Shoot a PM to Snake River in the DIY Plastics forum. He will fix you up. Myself I prefer the black and chartreuse combinations.

thank you Mike we make skirts only an inch and a half that we can do any combination of colors.

Bobby Garland 2" baby shad in solid "black knight" color is one of my favorites. Been using them for years now. GTT