bucktail colors..and why not ?

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Why is it that when I look into someone's plug bag, that person has at least a dozen plus in many different colors. From reading the posts on this forum, many of us have our own favorite "go to" plug and color under many conditions

However, for those of us who throw bucktail jigs, the No. 1 color seems to be a White bucktail with a white trailer or the occassional Black bucktail/black trailer at night (I confident only a few actually use a black/black combo). In fact, a friend and well respected fisherman I know tells me he only uses WHITE bucktails.

If White is truly is the "go-to" color for bucktails, why don't we apply that theory to our choice of plug colors. For example, how many of us are willing to change the numberous "rainbow of colored plugs" we own to "white" and only carry an occasional off-color when we fish ?

I don't know how many of you have had the opporunity to fish a tube and worm combo from a boat, but those of you who have, know that blood red (burgundy) is a DEADLY COLOR that produces lots of bass. In fact, I can remember several occassions trolling these red tubes and cathching good numbers of bass when the sun was well-up in the same water I fish in the hours of darkness.

If we know that this blood red color works so well on a tube, how many of us carry blood red plugs in our plug bags (I admit, I carry NONE) and how many red bucktails to we use (I'm guilty again, none for me)

I wonder if we are missing out by not experimenting more with various colors when we fish bucktails ?

Any thoughts on this ?