Gold or Chrome

[cheesemaster]

I am not much of a spinnerbait guy, (I throw cranks 10 to 1).  But plan to try to go more spinnerbait this fall. I know many of you are great spinnerbait guys so please advise.

 I love to throw a buzzbait with a gold blade on cloudy days and a silver blade on sunny days (even though I have been told the bass can't even see the blade on a buzzbait).

So as far as spinnerbaits go - is that the same color selection that you go with? Or am I all wet?

[dtrs5kprs]

Silver in clear water , gold in color, unless it is mud, then go to copper or paint. White blades can be very good in clear water too. 

[cheesemaster]

Thanks. Do you stay with like a white or white/chartreuse skirt regardless of water color and go with black in mud?

[dtrs5kprs]

3 minutes ago, cheesemaster said:

Thanks. Do you stay with like a white or white/chartreuse skirt regardless of water color and go with black in mud?

I throw a lot of lighter colors in clear water... pearl pepper, crystal colors, even plain smoke. Mud is usually chart/white, straight chartreuse, or something close to the cole slaw color. Black, or purple, at night , combos of same.

White with a little blue, with white blades can be very good.

[abkeenan]

2 hours ago, cheesemaster said:

I am not much of a spinnerbait guy, (I throw cranks 10 to 1).  But plan to try to go more spinnerbait this fall. I know many of you are great spinnerbait guys so please advise.

 I love to throw a buzzbait with a gold blade on cloudy days and a silver blade on sunny days (even though I have been told the bass can't even see the blade on a buzzbait).

So as far as spinnerbaits go - is that the same color selection that you go with? Or am I all wet?

I go mouse, spot remover, mouse. But then again I usually am fishing the gin clear dam area......except for this year apparently. Might have to break out the old Mann's Hank Parker Classic in firetiger.

[bluebasser86]

Don't overlook copper or painted blades in clear water either. The coleslaw color War Eagle is a killer on cloudy days. I think it's just not something they see often. 

[Champ188]

All the baits I'm going to mention are War Eagles.

Up around Cape Fair, a guy could get by with mouse, purple shad, hot blue herring and cole slaw.

The mouse and purple shad come on a nickel frame, meaning the main blade is silver and the smaller secondary blade is gold. These are intended for clear to lightly stained water.

Hot blue herring comes on a gold frame, meaning the main blade is gold and the secondary blade is nickel.

Cole slaw comes with both blades painted white.

There are just endless combinations and varieties of blades to mess around with and all that is fine as long as you don't overthink things. The TRUE key to spinnerbait fishing is to keep it in your hand all day long and believe in it. No other winding bait covers as much water and can be thrown/pitched/flipped into the tightest places that exist as a blade.

Pay attention to where every bite comes from and zero in on them.

[Hammer time]

In the fall I like burning a 1/2 war eagle screaming eagle in mouse with one copper and one silver blade.

[Hammer time]

6 minutes ago, Champ188 said:

All the baits I'm going to mention are War Eagles.

Up around Cape Fair, a guy could get by with mouse, purple shad, hot blue herring and cole slaw.

The mouse and purple shad come on a nickel frame, meaning the main blade is silver and the smaller secondary blade is gold. These are intended for clear to lightly stained water.

Hot blue herring comes on a gold frame, meaning the main blade is gold and the secondary blade is nickel.

Cole slaw comes with both blades painted white.

There are just endless combinations and varieties of blades to mess around with and all that is fine as long as you don't overthink things. The TRUE key to spinnerbait fishing is to keep it in your hand all day long and believe in it. No other winding bait covers as much water and can be thrown/pitched/flipped into the tightest places that exist as a blade.

Pay attention to where every bite comes from and zero in on them.

Champ is right on, I use two colors mouse in clear and blue Herron in stained. In early spring in the Cape area while most guys are throwing cranks I at times will slow roll a 1/2 oz blue herron with a big 4" swimbait trailer on staging banks and chunk rock banks. You can get your arm broke this way on some big ones.