Popular Lure Colors That Don’t Work for Me
Lure colors typically become popular for a reason – they catch fish. That’s why just about every bass angler around uses black/blue, watermelon, green pumpkin, and some sort of shad imitator across many categories of lures. Those are must-have colors.
But what about “second tier” colors? By that I mean colors that are reasonably popular, but which may be regional in nature, or not considered must-have everywhere. I’ve already outlined two – pumpkin with blue flake (soft plastics) and cotton candy (spinnerbaits) that have caught bass for me from California to New Hampshire and everywhere in-between. On the flip side, though, there are some fairly popular colors that I’ve bought in multiple styles but have rarely if ever been able to make work. In the video below, I discuss four that have confounded me for decades:
Lures Mentioned in the Video (choose colors at your own risk)
Berkley 7” Power Worm [My favorites: Blue Fleck, Watermelon Red Glitter]
Zoom Ol’ Monster [My favorites: Black Red Flake, Red Bug ]
Gambler BB Cricket [My favorites: Bowen Silver Shadow]
Zoom Trick Worm [My favorites: Bubble Gum, Ice]
Zoom Salty Super Fluke [My favorites: Albino, Tennessee Shad, White Pearl]
River2Sea Whopper Plopper [My favorites: Loon, Powder, Bone]
Evergreen Shower Blows Softshell Frog [My favorites: Morizo Bone, Secret Gill]
Stanford Baits Boom Boom Hollow Body Frog [My favorites: Dawg Frog, Fred’s Frog]
Evergreen Buzzer Beater (My favorites: Baby Gill, OK Gold]
Ima Skimmer [My favorites: Chartreuse Shad, Clear]
OSP Rudra [My favorites: Clown, Ghost Pearl]
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