I have caught alot of bream perch and other fish with a silver and black micro rattletrap it seems to work better around sept and october but during june july august i use beetle spins ussualy chartruese or yellow sometimes i use darker colors but what i have seen is to use a gold spinner instead of a silver it seems to work better in the darker water. sometimes i will put a small peice of shrimp on it and it will catch hundreds.