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.
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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.
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by CTom
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by snake River
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by shipahoy41
Thank you for the feedback!Quote:
Originally Posted by shipahoy41
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.
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.
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Originally Posted by shipahoy41
No doubt that the prey these fish chew on naturally is not found in the colors we make the baits. I think being very visible is one reason the colors works so well...fish see them. Fish have simple brains when compared to those of a human. What they see is seen way different than how we see the same thing in the same environment, as in underwater. The bright colors simply become a visibility thing. UV enhancement.....now this is something I employ in every color of plastic I make including glass clear. In fact, clear plastic with nothing more than enhancer in it is getting fish on a real regular basis in this region where the water has clarity down to about a foot. I am sold on the uv enhanced baits.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrNip
Color is a terribly specific thing to where one lives. Even the angle of the sun can come into play on how a certain color will work in Louisiana vs Minnesota on the same day in like waters. This makes it hard to guess what might work in one area if the person doing the suggesting lives in another area hundreds of miles away. Colors are an art developed thru use and observation. And like art, not all aspects of it is enjoyed by everybody.
I hear you guys on the color thingy and more natural baits but when u run eight poles and the fish hit one color over all others it's hard to ignore. Switch all poles over to same color and goto whacking on them. Color does play a big part in catch imo. What's crazy is have had days where they prefer a jig over live bait too and days when they hardly touch a jig and want live bait.
transparent was never a favorite of mine only time would be when I use glitter for that to come on through.