Grub colors...Uh, oh!

[dtrs5kprs]

43 minutes ago, Ham said:

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

Big bite finesse grub is the same grub as the Yum. TW has a few colors cheap in 25cts. Also the grubs from that tube company Quill likes are the same. Dry Creek, I think.

[Ham]

8 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

Big bite finesse grub is the same grub as the Yum. TW has a few colors cheap in 25cts. Also the grubs from that tube company Quill likes are the same. Dry Creek, I think.

Is it the same plastic though? That Yum grub caught fish, but it was really durable too. 

IMO, nothing gets bit like GYCB, but the dang things have the durability of wet toilet paper. I cant make myself buy the GYCB grub.

[Quillback]

9 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

Big bite finesse grub is the same grub as the Yum. TW has a few colors cheap in 25cts. Also the grubs from that tube company Quill likes are the same. Dry Creek, I think.

Yeah I like their tubes, but never have tried their grubs.  I don't fish grubs very often, probably should fish them more, but there is so much stuff to fish it's hard to fish everything.

Here's a link, they have a color called "Bloody Mary" that is Smoke/Red/black/copper.  May not be what you guys want. 

http://www.drycreekoutfitters.com/category_s/78.htm

[Ham]

I'm always going to over complicate colors in soft plastics and as a result overbuy. 

I see Green Pumpkin, watermelon, smoke,  chartreuse, and pearl as must haves. I probably have 4 versions of smoke based on flake color. And 3 watermelons. And a pumpkinseed or two. 

Hard to go wrong with Green pumpkin though 

[vernon]

Man, I don't know how you guys do it (which is why y'all catch way more fish than me).  I'll try two maybe three colors of any given bait but after that I just figure that it's the bait that ain't right and move on to something else.

Now, granted, I've got WAY more than two or three colors of each but I just won't keep switching up colors of the same lure for hours on end.

When it gets that complicated I almost always switch to beer instead of a fourth color.

[mixermarkb]

I'm kind of the same way Vernon. I have a high skies color, and a cloudy color on each bait, with maybe a couple wildcard colors for colored water or my own mood.  

After that, I'm just on to find different fish that are hungry, or a different bait to trigger bites. I used to keep a lot more colors in the boat, but I've been doing pretty well on keeping it simple the past few years.

[m&m]

I've often wondered after I switch to a new color, is it this color? Or is it as simple as there was a fish there and I would have caught it on the other color too? HMMM....

Mike

[dblades]

40 minutes ago, m&m said:

I've often wondered after I switch to a new color, is it this color? Or is it as simple as there was a fish there and I would have caught it on the other color too? HMMM....

Mike

I've picked brains of several pro's while fishing, MOST I've talked to put color way down the list of catching factors. I fished with a guide out of Texas that only had a couple of shad colors and a couple of craw colors, but he had them in a LOT of different baits. 

[dtrs5kprs]

3 hours ago, Ham said:

Is it the same plastic though? That Yum grub caught fish, but it was really durable too. 

IMO, nothing gets bit like GYCB, but the dang things have the durability of wet toilet paper. I cant make myself buy the GYCB grub.

Yep. That weird feeling plastic like the Yum. Not much salt in it, which increases durability.

Think the smoke pepper are $4/25 or so, 4" and a bigger 5".

[dtrs5kprs]

10 minutes ago, dblades said:

I've picked brains of several pro's while fishing, MOST I've talked to put color way down the list of catching factors. I fished with a guide out of Texas that only had a couple of shad colors and a couple of craw colors, but he had them in a LOT of different baits. 

Lot of truth in that, but you do have to allow for local flavors. Some lakes are "color Y" lakes. 

Smoke red grubs have always been one of those deals. Enough that they make Chompers 5" in the ugly smoke with minimal large red flake. Basically just for the Ozarks, or so I've been told. At one time they didn't even have specific labels for those. They were bagged with another color on the label, and marked over by hand with a Sharpie.

Smoke red gitzits were excellent 30+ years ago. Have not done as well with it in other colors. That includes swim baits, which should have worked given the grub deal.