Thread: Color C Lector - Really?

Originally Posted by ibmack

Nimrod the "ninja crappie master" say "only fish caught with lure out of water is flying fish" ✈️

Young ninja learn ways of master well.

When Nimrod goes, I just have him stick his finger in the water and then tell me what color they are biting. "Yep they'll be hitting on purple and chartreuse". He's been right every time.

I bet the inventor or whoever named this device knew not what a lector really is. I am a lector.

Originally Posted by Cane Pole

I bet the inventor or whoever named this device knew not what a lector really is. I am a lector.

Ted said you were not....he said you were a guber........but a Lector ...is a reader, especially someone who reads lessons in a church service.

One of the nicest folks I ever met in the fishing industry was the late,great Tom Mann of Mann's Bait Company. I asked Tom why so many colors? He said few colors catch fish but lots of colors catch fishermen.

He couldn't be more right! I could catch fish on three colors with confidence in any water I fish, any time of day I can find them and would never concern myself with other colors being more visible or effective.

As far as the next statement,

How many different colors do you make in those plastics you are always showing here? Why so many?

I'm a bit superstitious when if comes to certain lure designs and colors that may work best for those designs, having nothing to do with lure visibility depending on water clarity. I look at it this way:
1. sometimes a stark contrast with the surroundings, such as bright white, may at times work best with an action tail (curl or flapper) and may really annoy a fish into striking something so obvious - especially on a cloudy day.
2. some of the time a subdued pale hue with black flakes creates an internal contrast that may help excite a strike.
3. when I find colors I feel confident in, I always pack them along with some experimental colors I've never used just to see how many more colors can work for that design.

Maybe the above is fishing fantasy, but hey, the sport would be boring if everything we did always caught fish!
I've found, like Tom Mann stated, a few will do. Decades ago I also owned the original Color C Lector and even used some of the weird colored, Color C Lector crankbaits sold in kits. Never caught a thing on em, no matter what the meter reading said, plus a violet crankbait seemed a ridiculous color to cast!

It's sometimes nice to indulge in superstition when it comes to lure selection, including color, but I would never depend on a gimmick to tell me what works better than what I already know will work if and when I locate fish. The reason I take along different colors in the same lure design is to remind myself that lure action and presentation speak louder than lure color, the proof being that I've caught as many fish on clear plastic lures as on colored ones on any particular day. Plus, ever caught fish on a Mepps spinner with no skirt or hair dressing? Blade flash - not color - got that fish excited. And when does the Color C Lector say when to use clear or non-colored lures or even just flash (like the Mepps example or using a chrome Rat L Trap)?

Believe or not but there are many colors that can be used to catch most fish species which I've proven to my satisfaction over and over, color highly unlikely the primary reason.

If you watch the bags of say just jig bodies hanging on the hooks at a store that you frequent you will start to notice that a few days after a stocking one or two colors out of a specific lure are always low or sold out. Some of the others look like they have not sold as much and some maybe not at all.

Which one do you think is catching fish?

I have went to a different state and a body of water I have never fished and fished for a species I have never fished for and had success. And all I did was go in the tackle shop and ask the person what are they hitting and what color. Now sometimes you get a dud....but a lot of times if your nice people will set you up. And if you go to a couple places and they tell you the same thing that's good. And I have just ask sometimes " whats everybody buying". You have to learn to read people to figure them out. Most of the time the best ones are people who don't care...they just flat out tell you what is selling.

The only way to find the best ones is produce a lot of stuff and people try them. People sort through them and figure out what works. Some lures and colors get hot for a while and then later cool off. Some never catch a fish.

I walked into a Walmart in Perdido Key Florida one time and ask the lady what's flying off the shelf. She said the Berkley Gulp jerk shads in electric chicken color. She said you better buy what I got because they will be gone soon. I bought them and three other colors. Along with some other things that "looked good."

What did I catch everything on want to guess?...the other colors Nada...zilch...

That only has happened a thousand times in my fifty years of fishing.

You go fish 10 different lakes over several years for three or four different species with another person...you just take a few things and the other guy takes a wide selection and knows how to use them....Your gonna get outfished.