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Pappy says : Hey Bear , what flavor is the red candy , strawberry or cherry .....?:dono
Bear to Pappy : Tastes just like playdough to me Pappy ! :Rofl
once again it seems that color is not all that important , it could be just about the flavor you know :banghead:banghead:Rofl
Nah, color can matter, and be different depending on the day. Part of the fun of fishing!
Bob
Color and scent both matter my opinion. :twocents
I absolutely believe color matters. I also believe a crappie nibble is more a visual thing in clear water which is why I only use pink or chartreuse colors.
Color matters but size matters more. :twocents
Color does not matter until it does. Friday , I was doing well on black/chartreuse and blue chartreuse/ I was closing it on a limit, when they
shut down. I switched to white/chartreuse and finished the limit quickly. I had fished the white /chartreuse earlier with no success. Conditions had
not changed , except for time of day.
This has not happed to me often. What I do find to happen fairly often , is when the bite dies on a pile , switching colors may be good for
one or two more.
Mo
Color and scent matter unless you’re using live bait and sometimes tipping the jig color with live bait works well.
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Interesting
Play Do is Play Do all tastes the same no matter the color. :Rofl
Someone has already eaten to much! :RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie
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Learned it as a kid when I was transferring the funny papers….
probably so , wouldn't personally know , but then again he only said play-doh , not a certain color play-doh :Rofl:RoflrotflQuote:
Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie
Same here. I have had a good amount of luck using pink crappie nibbles, and I suspect it is partly due to visibility.Quote:
Originally Posted by Les Young
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Use the sauce & you will not have to worry about what color jig you use. They bite anything with sauce on it !!!!
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OMG. rotfl
So far for whatever reason I haven’t caught one with it but have caught plenty with nibbles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Curlytail
My opinion is Color does matter, but profile and how it's presented is more important
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everything matters with crappie ketchn and then ....nothing matters , unpredictable rascals sometimesQuote:
Originally Posted by Tom 513
unpredictable rascals sometimes[/QUOTE] without a doubt. Way more than I ever thought they’d be before I started fishing for them.
Actually, it’s the scent trail it leaves as it’s dissolving in the water. Hold it just below the surface and you’ll see what I mean.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pistolcreek
I'm using a mixture of bang crawfish shad scent & a shot of gulp alive shrimp spray in baits that i make & they're work fine. I also tried some fluorescent pink unscented plastic salmon eggs & they bit them & one lasted all day too so it's way cheaper than buying nibbles. Slabeyes scented scent sticks work very well too.Quote:
Originally Posted by chaunc
I feel only dark or light . Specific colors no big deal . Eyes are for fishermen .Scents do not help except for things that have small eyes and feed by smell like Catfish . Profile and presentation is 95% of getting bites . IMO .
without an LS unit to put a bait on the nose of the crappie , it helps immensely to put a scent trail down there . all fish use them fishee nostrils , just saying :cheers2
That's a funny statement. I've owned a few Brittany's and they all seem to have a very good sense of smell with normal to small eyes. :dono :biggrinQuote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
Yesterday , it appeared to me that color did not matter , but profile did.
MO
beady lil eyes ? or pretty lil doe eyes is the question ? :RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by keeferfish
My Sophie has "Pretty Little Angel Eyes"Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
I think profile is more important than color.
Ketchn asked for it with that question so here goes:
Soft plastics in general get it done and moreso than any other kind of lure. Why? Everyone have read my novels regarding my opinions why fish strke and what they strike. But fish IMHO are simple animals that evolution has programmed to strike lures showing a combination of traits that put color selection last:
1. lure size
Too big - no go
2. lure speed
Too fast - inactive fish will yawn as the lure speeds past; slow is best a majority of the time
3. the wrong lure action
sometimes a curl tail grub will do as well; at other times a hair jig will do better. Why? How the H should I know? LOL! Really though, many lure actions can work on the same day - some not so much.
4. angler-imparted action / presentation
slow with pauses? under a float and dragged a bit? jigged off bottom? steady retrieve? You pick.
4. #3 depends on a few things:
lure shape and the material the lure is made of.
5. color?
is in the eye of the beholder based on many factors such as water clarity, depth, sun or clouds, night or day, heavy weeds, no weeds, fish looking up at a lure vs sideways or down (looking up against a bright sky=no color unless translucent)
Hue is always coupled with color brightness and whether solid or translucent. Question foremost in my mind: what effect does color impart to a lure's shape/profile and action? Do fish give a *^#%? Probably less than we think.
For the H of it I made some soft plastics using clear plastic with no metal flakes and caught just as many fish as those with color:
https://i.imgur.com/OGnJodZ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/2PHVdyd.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/N7SdIpq.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Jv7NYeV.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/X5m6ZSj.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ZHgPLqb.jpg https://i.imgur.com/NLYmvpQ.jpg?1
What do fish see when looking at a clear-colored lure as in the above examples? Depends on all of the above and whatever a background color comes through.
While you're at it, don't forget the light reflected off the lure's surface or flashing off internal or external metal flakes - a whole new ball game depending on plastic hue, clarity/ translucence, flake color, etc.
One last thing - promise!
Does a flashing blade or chrome surface distract a fish from noticing the absence of color like in the clear plastic examples? Are the bright flashes the thing it attacks? Chrome is not a color but light flash or a mirror of its surroundings. Regardless, it has done well for me.
Foregive the long treatise, but color choice is simple - the reasons not so simple but relevant.
Plus it's 2:30 in the morning and I can't sleep due to a cold. Ah chooo!
https://i.imgur.com/BuULxuN.mp4
if they be on freshwater ghost shrimp a fella with a small clear plastic will clean up on them in these parts for sure ....Quote:
Originally Posted by Spoonminnow
seen that before .....just saying
For decades I've researched almost everything there is to know about lures and possibly why they catch fish. The above may save time and money for some when considering what it is about a lure that provokes fish to strike it. I too have colors preferences depending on the lure, but it doesn't mean other colors won't work.
I guess the key to my color preference is catching fish on a lure of that color for the first time and on future outings after that. Superstition has nothing to do with it: consistently catching fish speaks volumes when something works.