Colors

[Surfpirate]

Needle - Eel & burple at night

Pencil - white

[winchmaster]

White pencil popper day or night
needle I will leave that to you good eastern folks as I think they are all painted invisible out west. oke:

[bloocrab]

Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman

...In my veiw, color is not that important (I think profile and swimming action/presentation and contrast will be picked up and trigger a strike before the color differences, since at night, bass can not see color (physically impossible), during the day, they can see color but their day vision is so poor that I doubt it matters much. ...

I agree 110%.....

Although I'm partial to BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.............

[RickBomba]

Day:
Yellow top, white bottom.

Nite:
Blurple, well, then again... Never do well at night.
Usually me and Mikey's out carousing then.
Later,
Rick

[rphud]

needles: black, blurple, olive/white, parrot, pink/white,white, black/gold/white, black/gold/orange (later fall, late night killer)

pencils: redhead/white. redhead/yellow (both far and above the others, which seems to surprise just about everybody), white, yellow/white. pink/white

[Canalman]

I like needles red/white candy cane stripes with orange flames coming from the front set of eyes. The rear eyes will be purple glass eyes and lie just behind the jointed portion of the tail. Black fog with gold glitter around the eyes and a long orange tail tied to the siwash.

Go ahead needleman make 'em up

[winchmaster]

Originally Posted by riverrat2

I never really understood why people are picky about colors of poppers. The fish can only see the belly 99% of the time.

Couple of reasons, one is contrast, stripers see in shades of black and white hence a color that is different shows a contrast. Black and purple are deadly not because of the two colors but because the contrast between each other.
As for a popper not showing, the top color 98% of the time. Well its more like 75% to 25%. The top color during the side to side motion you give does turn on its side a percentage of the time So the plug does indeed flash the top color underwater giving a contrast. And finally certain conditions make it harder for you to pick up your plug from the surroundings. A different color that sticks out from the surroundings, helps you keep an eye on your plug. Havinng eye contact with your popper allows you to make adjustments in how you work the popper.

[Steve K]

yellow

[JoeP]

My philosophy with Plugs & Slug-go’s is to use natural-type colors first (olive/white, olive/silver, eel, bunker colors), night or day (red/pink throats are nice too). The conditions & lighting may change but the baitfish don’t change their natural color all that much – and the bass still eat ‘em.

If those colors don’t work I’ll throw black or blurple at night and if very bright then yellows – but I try to avoid those full moon nights anyways .

[riverrat2]

Winch, The way I feel is if you are catching fish on pencils or any other type of top water 99% the fish are not going to picky of color especially the top of the plug. I think a fish hits a popper due the action, comotion etc not the color. Have you ever been catching fish on topwater while everyone else who was throwing topwater wasnt getting a touch because they didint have the same color plug as you? Needlefish and swimmers are another story. Contrast plays mor of a role in those plugs because the fish get a better look at the plug, in my opinion

[Tagger]

day,,,blue & white
night,,,blue & white

[Bernzy]

Originally Posted by Tagger

day,,,blue & white
night,,,blue & white

That was the fishes color of choice during my 2 wks in RI

Bernzy

[redneck24]

needles-
night: blurple, black, dark blue/ white
day: olive/ white, yellow

poppers-
yellow, yellow/ white, blue/ white, purple/ white