How important is the color and detail on the top of a surface plug?

[libassboy]

Im a believer that it does matter. When your using a spook for example, it doesnt always ride perfectly strait, it flashes and tips and turns, exposing the color on the back of the plug. Ive seen one color outperform others too many times for it to not be a fact. Altho rare one color can also be the ticket while all others fail, theres gotta be something to it.
yellow is huge for surface plugs, and i think it has something to do with the contrast, but god only knows.

[Tagger]

,,, I think different things matter at different times and sometimes nothing matters .. I think color does matter,, What about Stan Gibbs and friends slaying fish on purple and pink plugs they painted themselfves before there was such a thing during squid run . Soon nothing will matter,, when the feeding is competitive you can throw anything in the water an catch ,,, see it every year . .

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by Tagger

,,, I think different things matter at different times and sometimes nothing matters .. I think color does matter,, What about Stan Gibbs and friends slaying fish on purple and pink plugs they painted themselfves before there was such a thing during squid run . Soon nothing will matter,, when the feeding is competitive you can throw anything in the water an catch ,,, see it every year . .

Yup, i remember one year i hit upon eureka, by chance, with green and white dannies. They caught for me all year long, couldn't miss till October than 0. Never caught on them again but silver/black mega bait and everything else worked that fall.
Another time the difference was between a 5in yellow stillwater and 5in shool bus red fin with nothin on the red fin and nonstop on the stillwater.
Three years ago it was chartruse storms out fishin the pogie storms 10 to 1. Next year it was the pearl storms with a worm rattle.
A blue/black stillwater, black mombo or bomber almost always brings a hit at last light. Color seems to matter at different times of the day and year.

All i know for Sure is, Fish_ Eye always has awesome threads, and uze guys keep me learnin.

[NIB]

I will go thru a few plugs in my bag an not be overfished.I mean sure guys might do me by one or 2 fish that happens.I'm talkin where some guy has "THE" hot plug or color an smokes me 7-1 Never happens.How do u explain that.I go thru this all the time with guys an the hot color.I don't buy it.I am stubborn that way.I think if u think something is hot u thro it with confidence.It means everything.

[tattoobob]

Fish are impulse eaters, they see something that looks like food and they put it in there mouths if they don't like it they spit it out, I think it only has to look like food for them to put it in there mouth, thats why storm shads are so hot.

[Tagger]

Originally Posted by NIB

I'm talkin where some guy has "THE" hot plug or color

I've seen it happen .. Years ago one fall morning on a Sandwich beach berfore day break guys were lining up and casting plugs. Word was out fish had been hitting at daybreak . There had to be 40 guys there arms length apart .. One guy in the middle keeps hooking up.. He got 7 fish .. Everyone eles got skunked except for one OTW writer got 1 fish . Stan Kuzia was there,, also Ron Arra and Carl Johanson ,,so its wasn't a matter of guys not reaching the fish . A bunch of other heavies I didn't know . After all the dust settled got a look at the guys plug . It was a Polaris popper Pogy color ,, That light gray with the black false eye .. Only thing that color was not available in stores and he got it from Gibbs himself .. Must have been the plug .. Either that them other guys don't know how to fish .