Opinion on hook color fishing minnows?

[Luckyloser]

Went Overcup yesterday and fished minnows deep and had one rod that had dark colored brown hook and the rest gold hooks. Only caught fish on the dark colored hook. I was wondering why and the other rods were the same depth same everything but the hook color crappie ignored them? Anybody ever noticed a difference in hook color getting more bites? It seems to me the hook color wouldn’t make that much difference but I didn’t get a bite with the normal flashy gold hook.


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[NIMROD]

I figure mostly just coincidence. I never noticed a difference . I think fishermen more interested in color than the fish . Just saw another facebook post where a spider rigger caught Crappie on the lead weight above his minnow .

[Cray]

I painted some egg weights chartreuse and some red. They both about drove me crazy. Them crappie would grabor bump them weights much as they would take minnow.


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[stormcloud]

On two different occasions I caught a crappie on red sickle hooks before I got the poles baited. Both were small. Never had it happen with gold or bronze.

[NIMROD]

On two different occasions I caught a crappie on red sickle hooks before I got the poles baited. Both were small. Never had it happen with gold or bronze.

I have caught Crappie on bare unpainted leadheads with bronze hooks after losing my plastic tube . lol