Plug color importance?

[JHABS]

Always Start with White, White at NIGHT , I'm Sure a few will chime in on this .

[luds]

Originally Posted by JHABS

Always Start with White, White at NIGHT , I'm Sure a few will chime in on this .

I always start w/ white and or black and purple. There are a few places that Chartreuse or yellow always works well so I usually start with them but that is rare.

[rphud]

Here' a list of some from people I have had info on from down NJ way:

Smokey Joe (black/silver-gray/white)
Moss Back (dark green/white)
School Bus (black/yellow with black stripes/yellow)
Chicken Scratch (yellow/white)

I noticed two of my favorites from Karl F.: yellow with red head and white with red head (mostly for surface things).

One thing I have been pondering lately is how much the fly guys rely on chartruese over white, and how much they don't match up with lure colors.

[NarragansettBil]

Neons in the fall

[eelman]

Originally Posted by tlapinski

Solid dark color, solid light color, and a contrast of dark/light. For a while I was too caught up in fancy colors. Now I stick to the basic pattern I just noted. I really think this will cover you on 95% of the scenarios you will run into. Are there times when one color seems to blow away others? Yes, but it is really hard to tell if it is something the user is doing different or if it is actually the color difference. We all have had experiences where we have stood next to guy using the exact same plug but doubles our results. Worry more about presenting plugs properly and at the right time and color will fall a distant 3rd place, IMO. Of course, your results may vary!

Something we agree on toby!...Black or white all you need..Presentation is the most important thing...color is the least...contrast is somewhat important.

The number one thing is presentation.without that the best plug in the world wont catch squat..

[Clammer]

Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&

Something we agree on toby!...Black or white all you need..Presentation is the most important thing...color is the least...contrast is somewhat important.

The number one thing is presentation.without that the best plug in the world wont catch squat..

Like u////know a/t bout %$#@ plugs////J/A

[NIB]

Most if not all of my plugging is saved for the late season.Clors i do good on i don't see that much of are:
dark blue wit silver sides white belly
smokey grey top lite pink sides white belly.
Black w/hot pink bottom. this is my black an purple like a old bomber blurple.krylon made a perfect match for it in the florescent line.
I see alot of black an dark purple's, no contrast.may as well be black..
Chartreuese an white.
Not a popular northern color but i have done well up there with a swimmer I have made in that color.
I like scale patterns at night also like silver over black.silver over blue.
one of my favorite bottles.
I never thru a parrot colored plug till i fished up north.
I am mostly a natural guy.white, black,Drab green,an yellow..
If u said Tony Pick one.It would be white with a yellow top...or white depends on the plug..
As far as presentation an being out fished there are times when 10 ft to the right or left also makes all the difference in the world.

[Canalman]

OK that's a good start and for the most part, you guys think the way I do. I have a few variations that I use throughout the the year one in particular is "spent herring"... you know in June when the herring are dropping out of the ponds and they get that yellowy brownish black color? I made plugs to resemble that color this year. With that color I took several 20's and one 32# fish all on a spook, and the guys around me weren't doing nearly the damage I was doing. Was it that I had the mojo working that day or the color?

Thanks for the great response guys... anything else?

[Skitterpop]

If I could only have one plug / one color it would be pearl white with hints of yellow and pink in it.

[Canalman]

Originally Posted by Skitterpop

If I could only have one plug / one color it would be pearl white with hints of yellow and pink in it.

So sort of wonderbreadish

[Rockport24]

Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&

Something we agree on toby!...Black or white all you need..Presentation is the most important thing...color is the least...contrast is somewhat important.

The number one thing is presentation.without that the best plug in the world wont catch squat..

Wow, is it a coincidence that #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& just wrote about this very subject in OTW this month? good article by the way.....

[quick decision]

I have caught more bass on schoolbus yellow than any other color.

[JoeP]

Baitfish don't change color at night, and obviously bass feed at night, so I think, whether fishing in day or night, natural colors are the best - olive shades over white shades, brown shades over white shades, silvers, bunker patterns, herring patterns, eel patterns. And most of these involve some shade of olive/brown over white/cream/silver.

And I think adding some pink hues (daytime) and purple hues (night) add some semblance of natural coloration and may also indicate blood/injured fish to predators, triggering aggression.

Now in saying this, I've had some great success on blurple colored plugs & sluggos - so who knows...

I also think, as was said above, that presentation is more important than color, and color is mostly a personal confidence thing. I've been in enough situations where I am using a totally different color from someone else and we are both catching fish.

[Skitterpop]

Originally Posted by Canalman

So sort of wonderbreadish

Not really.... all pearlescent white with slight under tones of soft yellow and rose pink throughout....not defined as classical wonderbread.


day or night this color rules

[pops]

something like this ?

[Swimmer]

Great article in OTW this month by Charlie Soares on this. Not to mention that our own #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& had another great read this month also. I think most of the colors schemes are to catch our eye and not the fhish's eye. We all agree on this, which is amazing.

[Canalman]

Skpop, I think I can picture that.

So what I've gotten from this so far is that

#1 Durability is Key
#2 Old Stand By Colors are still reigning supreme
#3 Blurple is preffered over black by most
#4 White and Yellow/White are far and away the most popular
#5 Natural Colors are important, but only suggestions of nature, no need to replicate the olive hues under a herrings eyes while softly replicating the hues from blue to pink to gold on it's body .
#6 metroblurple will be in the new color lineup this year.

Anything I missed? Any other suggestions?
-Dave