Color can mean a lot at times. We don't see a lot of colored waxies in this region, but during the winter months colored maggots really can help the bite. When I ice fished I always bought red colored spikes in packages of 1000 or 500 and had them along every time I hit the ice. There were days that sunfish would hit nothing but those red bugs. Crappies, if given the choice of waxies or spikes, seemed to prefer wax worms.

Waxies were available for a couple years in colored glow in the dark....red ones glowed red, green ones glowed green, blue ones glowed blue. They were fed food that had the glow pigments infused into it and the worms would build up a pile of the pigment inside them and actually glowed when they were charged with a light just like a jig head. The shelf life of the glow waxies was terrible though.