Tube Colors ?

[Ham]

I feel certain that puked up craw was colored differently when it was alive. Hard to go wrong with olive or brownish colored tubes. The fun glitter added is more for a fisherman's benefit, but I'm an unrepentant color junkie so there. Color matters when it matters. The fuin is figuring out when it matters,

[dtrs5kprs]

I feel certain that puked up craw was colored differently when it was alive. Hard to go wrong with olive or brownish colored tubes. The fun glitter added is more for a fisherman's benefit, but I'm an unrepentant color junkie so there. Color matters when it matters. The fuin is figuring out when it matters,

That craw was from a couple of weeks ago, the pic below is from last year. Same time (roughly) same area of the lake. Basically the same color craws, and the water color was drastically different year to year. Saw a bunch that color in April as well. The fish below had pieces of one craw in her mouth, the one farther down was still moving, and she still ate the tube. She swallowed that craw completely down while we were taking pics and getting the tube out of her head. She needed a toothpick too, little mess on her upper teeth.

That watermelon red is pretty dead on to the claw coloration, especially when you get a tube with a lot of flake in it.

[BiteMeBaits]

I have the luxury of molding my own plastics and playing with colors. I have had a lot of luck lately with a smoke color with purple flake. Seems to be a pretty constant color for me. Seems like any color, even green pumpkin with purple flake seems to work well on TR. Best of luck!

[Jerry Rapp]

color has always been an interesting thing. I always try to keep it simple, as the most important thing is to find the fish. But color does matter, sometimes. When I fished Mark Twain a lot back in the day, when it would get chocolate colored, I always thought it was a no brainer, black/blue. After getting spanked a couple of times, finally figured out a brown jig/chunk would get you some bites. Didn't make sense. Up until about 10 years ago, I almost never fished any plastic in green pumpkin. Now all I use is some form of green pumpkin. What happened to blue, red, purple plastic worms. A purple worm with a white tail used to be fantastic. I might try to find some of them again and give them another try.

[kyled]

I have often wondered about the importance of color and I have gone back and forth on my opinion.....as of right now I feel color is not as important as action to bass (crappie is a different story). Even though I say that I still throw painted lead worm weights and jig heads because they look better to me

[Quillback]

Comment from Tommy Biffle concerning color being a factor in his Elite series win:

Biffle's primary island area had a relatively featureless sandy bottom, but a small ditch was formed where the current made a turn. "I'd get on the downstream side and throw upstream, and then bring the Bug down with the current and let it fall over that ditch. That was really the only thing in there for them to be on." For flipping, he began the event using a smoke silver Bug, but switched to green-pumpkin with some orange dye after he and fellow competitor James Elam both found crawdads of that color in their livewells. "I flipped one of those into a bush right beside the boat right after I'd just flipped the silver one in there, and as soon as I did it, one bit it. From then on I only fished that color and just caught the heck out of them. On day 3 I caught between 55 and 65 fish, so it was definitely a color they wanted."

[dblades]

Color doesn't matter EXCEPT when it does, even at night. I've been night fishing when one color bait out caught all others 5 to 1.

[ryan]

Agree I've seen color make a huge difference!

[abkeenan]

The orange color of the craw's in table rock is somewhat minimal. Just little accents on the claws, ridges of the shell and around the eyes. The majority of the craw is made up or green/browns and black. When you see a pic of Dave has in the 2nd post on this thread that is a craw that is half digested at which point they start to turn orange....just as if you boiled them in a pot...they turn completely orange.

[*T*]

Wide range of views when it comes to favorites or importance of bait colors. Kinda like rifle & caliber discussions around deercamp campfire. Many of the ideas work, but everyone has their own opinion and history of what has worked for them.