I have always subscribed to the basic principle of white, black or yellow as a base/dominant color for striped bass plugs. That being said I have had experiences when chartruese, flo orange, chrome and other combos have been the ticket to success.
Back in the late 70's I was fishing with old Man Mac Reed on Nauset one night, I was driving his International Scout as he was then in his 70's and didn't see to well with the lights off on a dark night. I was 19 yrs. old. Anyway, we are going along the beach and not doing anything but he kept saying to me as he rubbed the side of his face with his weatherbeaten hand and said, "son,(he called evryone "son"), I believe there are fish here but we don't have what they want I suppose". He mentioned sand eels and that sand eels would surely take them (he always brought up sand eels as bait) but then he made me stop the truck and he got out and went to the back and rumaged around and took out a box with Rebel packaging and in it was a dozen pinl mackerel 6" wind cheater F-80 rebels.
He snapped one on and walked down to the foam and cast it into the dark surf. He was on instantly and called for me to drag his 30 pounder up to the truck ( when you fished with him you always dragged his fish up to his truck, he was too feeble to do it himself)
I snapped on a blue and silver one from my bucket of plugs but no takers while he was on again. I switched to a pink mackerel and almost as soon as it hit the water I was on. I couldn't beleive it, there was no moon, nothing to illuminate the color pattern but that plug caught all the fish that night no matter if we (I) switched. I still have a few from that night that I treasure and we caught with them several times after that night. I think TC had something to do with #^&#^&#^&#^& Pleska getting that color made up.
True story.
I would still like someone to explain that to me.
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