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Good post Greg, not much I can add to it, but clearly your freshwater background is similar to mine. A lot of my colors come from that ground work and I've just applied it to striper fishing and with great success.
The colors SM stated work for me, I start the morning with darker colors and switch over to translucent baits in natural clear/glitter bottoms and smoke/glitter backs. In that clear water, especially on bright sunny mornings/days, I want something that is going to give the bass a hint that it's food, the right size, close to natural color, baitfish profile, but I want them to almost say to themselves (yeah I know they aren't great thinkers...lol) the only way to know is to suck it in and try it.
I think those pearl baits that FW uses make great sense in Boston, because the visibility is so low. Not only that they put out a great deal of vibration from the paddle tail. They just don't make a lot of sense in my clear water, although I'm sure they would work fine during active feeding. If during the summer I find an absence of bait and fish are feeding more on lobster, a bait with with a more red and/or green will sometimes be the ticket.
I have an advantage by pouring, because I can experiment to my hearts content, plus my water clarity is fairly consistant year to year. After 14 years of fine tuning, I pour basically just two colors now. The first is a crap shoot of some brown/red/yellow melt down of used baits, a "get what you get" sort of deal for the early mornings. The other I make up from fresh plastic, with the clear (some silver glitter) bottoms and usually smoke (red/black/blue glitter) for when the sun comes up.
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