Grub colors...Uh, oh!

[dtrs5kprs]

Grub colors are not a huge deal to me. I have pounds and pounds of smoke salt and pepper, pearl, and straight smoke in the boat.

But one color has always been a local favorite. Smoke red flake. Apparently GYCB has stopped making it in the 5" single tail, both smoke large red, and smoke red/black. Apparently the same for Kalin's. 

After a pretty thorough search yesterday, all I could find smoke red in was the 5" Chompers, 4" GYCB, 3" Kalin's, and the Big Bite grubs. BPS still has the excellent smoke/red/copper listed.

Just a heads up for the other hoarders.

[WeekendWarrior]

Just give me the GYCB in smoke for TR ?

[dtrs5kprs]

There's something about the smoke red though. It's always been a big fish color.

[Sore Thumbs]

Kinami Natural shad is a great color.

[dtrs5kprs]

1 hour ago, Sore Thumbs said:

Kinami Natural shad is a great color.

Yes it is. In Senkos too.

[rps]

Funny, my go to has always been watermelon seed or avocado. Of course, I still prefer the Manns Stingray. Call me the opposite of trendy.

[kjackson]

You know there are days and places where small details make a big difference. I'm reminded of one particular outing where my guide buddy and I were fishing, and smoke-pepper red flake was better than smoke-pepper blue flake. Granted this was in a different state fishing for walleyes, but still...flake color meant catching fish or not.  We were fishing the same setups and same jig heads, but the color of the flake was a deal breaker. We both had a hard time believing it, but that was the case.  When I changed to red flake, I caught fish, but blue flake was a curse.

The kicker came later when I shifted to a Kalin's translucent red pepper over chartreuse just to see and did as well as my buddy.  Usually color didn't make that much difference, but it did then.  

 

[*T*]

I've had favorites discontinued by GYCB also and hoarded them from all over the country while I could. GYCB 5" Smoke w/ large black flake my standard. BPS smoke w/ copper has been good. 

[Nitro 750]

10 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

There's something about the smoke red though. It's always been a big fish color.

I agree with you, smoke red flake is my favorite, I have 4 inch Yum smoke red flake ( 1 bag left, I wish I had 30 or more bags left) that I bought 5 or 6 years ago and now it is almost impossible to find that color in anything.  My second favorite is smoke salt and pepper, then clear salt and pepper.

[Ham]

The Yum Muy grub was too good to be allowed to stay on the market.