Solid or Translucent colors: What do folks prefer?

[Frank300]

In you experience with friends or customers is there a difference in demand for sold colors (Body one solid color tail a different solid color same for laminates) and translucent color body and or tail? With or without glitter.

[CTom]

I think everyone has their own preferences. I can make gosh awful complicated baits but for my fishing I like the more transparent colors. Purple/chartreuse tail and bluegill/chartreuse tail are my go to colors. The bluegill is simply clear with purple, green, blue and copper glitters in it. The purple may or may not have any glitter add but it always has violet hi lite added. My fishing baits don't have eyes unless I am fishing with a bait I made for a picture. I like simple and that's what the fish seem to like too.

Friends can have totally different desires. I have a friend that I make maybe 8 different bait styles for panfish for him. He wants nothing but white baits. Period. Nothing else. Aside from profile the only thing that changes with him is head color and weight. Most of my fishing buddies want what ever I am using.

[Frank300]

I think everyone has their own preferences. I can make gosh awful complicated baits but for my fishing I like the more transparent colors. Purple/chartreuse tail and bluegill/chartreuse tail are my go to colors. The bluegill is simply clear with purple, green, blue and copper glitters in it. The purple may or may not have any glitter add but it always has violet hi lite added. My fishing baits don't have eyes unless I am fishing with a bait I made for a picture. I like simple and that's what the fish seem to like too.

Friends can have totally different desires. I have a friend that I make maybe 8 different bait styles for panfish for him. He wants nothing but white baits. Period. Nothing else. Aside from profile the only thing that changes with him is head color and weight. Most of my fishing buddies want what ever I am using.

Thanks for the insight!

[snake River]

most of my sales most of my customers are wanting 2 colors till color and body color and also dual injector style.

[Frank300]

most of my sales most of my customers are wanting 2 colors till color and body color and also dual injector style.

Thank you. I am not sure I follow "till". Have you seen a trend towards translucent over solid Bi-color or no preference between solid and translucent. Thanks again!

[shipahoy41]

I like the translucent colors personally. I also prefer two colors on lures that contrast. One color will always be chartreuse since I have the most confidence in it.

[CTom]

I like the translucent colors personally. I also prefer two colors on lures that contrast. One color will always be chartreuse since I have the most confidence in it.

I sure like how this guy thinks!

[Frank300]

I like the translucent colors personally. I also prefer two colors on lures that contrast. One color will always be chartreuse since I have the most confidence in it.

Thank you for the feedback!

[CTom]

I have several colors of paddletail baits stocked at a local mom and pop bait shop. The only solid colors I have there anymore are white and black. They are both solid selling neutral colors. By far though, the more transparent colors with chartreuse tails sell out before anything else....I'm talking purple/chartreuse, bluegill/chartreuse, blue/chartreuse, orange/chartreuse in the order of selling out first. I see transparent fluorescent orange and transparent fluorescent hot pink sell in numbers right about now too as people start searching for the crappies as they begin showing up in deeper water adjacent to the spawning areas. Everybody is a little bit different in what they want for colors but I guess I'm a poor judge because I don't offer any opaque colors other then the white and black. Even my smoke is very transparent. I make baits based on what works best for me and I think that people figure out that what's on the pegs in the bait shop is what the fish want. As long as I keep a decent color selection, transparent seems to be fine with the anglers because we never hear any negative comments. I offer a few split colors...body one color, tail another....and keep the transparent thing there too. Some of the transparent colors....the hot pink, bluegill, blue and purple....get glitters added as well as hi lite. All other colors are just transparent plastic with some hi lite added.

For me the key has been to create colors that hold onto the transparent side well, but are just "different" from the everyday colors we see in commercial packaging. Most of this difference comes from hi lite. Some hi lite added to a transparent color gives the color some depth and internal light reflection without causing light blockage. Its that little bit of "something else" that comes from the hi lite that I think takes people away from purchasing an opaque bait. Black and white are a given for opaques, but beyond those two all else in this camp is transparent. This is especially true in the very tiny micro-sized ice baits I sell each winter.

[DrNip]

I can't tell the difference between a transparent or sold chartreuse here in Oklahoma. I catch fish with both and we have muddy/stained water. Humans really over think baits. Eyes, no eyes, painted jig head no painted jig head. Cracks me up. If I were a crappie fisherman and knew/read nothing about black/chartreuse, pink/chartreuse, pumpkin/chartreuse, black/pink and what not I would never think to create a bait this color as the prey of the fish aren't this color. I would try creating something more in tune with what they eat.