Underwater test: Which lure color stands out in stained water?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 เม.ย. 2019
- Every angler surveys the water when arriving at a fishing spot and tries to determine which color would be best, but Marsh Man Masson wanted to see if the old adages about appropriate colors for stained water are accurate, so he dropped a GoPro down and jigged an assortment of baits and colors in front of it. Some of the results surprised him!
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I'm a saltwater fisherman on the west coast and recently got into bass fishing and my local lake is dirty as hell. Fished it 5 times with all kinds of colors with no results until I tried black and blue and started slaying large mouth there ever since.
Marsh Man, I just love your videos and wanted to thank you for the time and energy you put into making them. This is yet again another great example of your enthusiasm for the fishing community. I wish a BIG sponsor would take you on.
Fishing lures are made to catch fishermen, right by their wallets.
Exactly. When I've caught fish on lures they seem to be so aggressive/ in such a frenzy they'd eat anything (then again mostly do saltwater fishin' here)
Action is key! Not color!
@@druklezaj2384 preach it..
I still use the same snook/trout/bass lures that I used 40 years ago. No $15-$20 spool tech/live target etc... crap for me. But then again I dont have fishing costumes either like fly shirts,head buffers etc...either. I laugh at them.
black 2 dollar beetle spin
It is cool to see this color test and also goes to show how close an angler needs to get a lure to a fish in murky water. I like the fishing videos like the next guy, but it is these informational videos that really you apart from others. Keep it up!
agreed, liked and subscribed, I never heard this info before this.
Excellent excellent tutorial this is what's teaching people about how to catch fish is about thank you
Best video by far, very insightful giving our region and tendencies to use soft plastics
Thanks for the great video. I am a newbie to the fishing world. I could never grasp the concept that color makes a difference. You have definitely cleared it up for me.
Thanks for the research Marsh Man. I’m mostly freshwater angling up in NE but you’ve got yourself one more subscriber.
The opening line is hysterical!
Marshman, I just wanted to say thank you! I caught my first keeper speck trout yesterday. 16". We cooked it for dinner tonight and it was absolutely delicious. Thanks for teaching us how to catch these things!
Hands down the best lure color video I have found. I had to suffer through probably 10 + videos to find this gem.
Hey man, you're a real practitioner, my respect for you!
Yet again another awesome video very informative. thanks Marsh man!!!!!
Great knowledge passed along in yet another truthful vid for MMM!! And finally told his spot!! Lol, thanks Todd keep it up!!
very helpful video man im getting into bass fishing more and this gives me a better understanding of how and what color to use in water clarity . thanks so much !
Thanks for the info. Always helpful
Great vid marsh man your vids of color and actions are the best!
Thanks for all the informative and entertaining videos. The Limbo Slice Matrix Shad is awesome. Keep up the great videos.
Thanks for the underwater test, I enjoyed it as always. It proved to me that black and chartreuse with well rope will work well in dirty water.
Thank you for all the hard work and tons of editing.....great help with picking up colors for next time. God bless
Thanks for the video. My fishing skills have improved.
I was very interesting. I’m glad you did that test I seen something I like. Thanks brother and keep it up
Great video, thanks for the demo of colors
Awesome vid man!👍🎣
I cannot believe you live beside your boat launch! You ARE the worlds luckiest man! Thank you these comparison vids. Excellent work, much needed. Thank you, regards, Cam.
This is the most educational video for these types of fishing Off baits thank you
Ha, in some cases of the tests I wouldn't have believed it unless I saw it!!! Great video. I sometimes holiday in the far western rivers of New South Wales and Queensland in Australia. Real muddy color is the norm. Very informative, thanks for taking the time and posting.
Thanks! Very helpful video!
Good stuff bro. Sure glad I watched it!!!
Another great video. Thanks
Great video! I'm agree %100 with you. The darker the water the darker my lure. The lighter/ clearer the water the more natural my lure. The chartreuse wasn't bad in that darker water but it needs to be right on that fishes face.
Great video Todd, was literally just thinking about which color plastics to throw in Delacroix this weekend
I thought white looked the best. White always works.
his white didnt do well. it's translucent. you can see the screwlock through the bait. but regular pearl white with no seeing through is the best dirty water color.
Glow in the dark doa always works for me in dirty water
This was informative. Thanks.
Great Effort putting this video together, I enjoyed the video and the shared information.
~ Also just liked and Subscribed, I’ll be watching.
Over here in the Mobile bay, the water is just about always chocolate milk. I like putting scent, like pro cure, on my lure just because the fish can’t see the lure as well as other places.
Whats the best spot in mobile to fish?!
Tristan Kujat I’ve always had good luck in weeks bay (which is a bay within the Mobile bay). Weeks bay is an estuary, so there’s lots of bait in there and that attracts predators. Hope this helps!
fluorescent orange shows up really well in murky water. I did a test like this a couple years ago at a dock in the spring. mounted my underwater camera to the dock and cast lures out, reeling them toward the camera. I was testing some new lures actions, but also their paintjobs as well. a flo orange one was easily visible from the farthest out.
Liked just for your honesty with the chartreuse and white. Respect
Very much appreciate the time you take to put these videos together. These underwater vids are priceless.. This one was very revealing as to what the human eye can see. Looks like the age old rule still stands, dirty water use dark colors.. Thanks again for posting.
I always just use a underspin jig with white lure in stained water. The under spin moves water around so they can feel it and it gives noise and also flashes so the fish see it better and the fish seem to always bite like crazy if there are any there.
Great video. Great info. Thanks
Nice, thanks!
Just subscribed. Good video. Only thing I'll say is pumpkin and motor oil zoom will work pretty much no matter what. Keep up the good work.
Watching you from Australia. We have crystal clear water during our short summer. Very stired up water the rest of the year especially in the Autumn when the bite is on. Love your videos.
Cool video, I see the proof now about shadows in dark water.. good vid man
Hay marsh man great video I often have thought about this my self thanks for your time and help
Nice info, thanks for sharing.
I really enjoy all your videos. You put an awful lot of work into them, and I really appreciate your enthusiasm!
I think that bass rely on things other than just color in dirty water like size and vibration, but this vid told me a lot about what the bass actually see:) Keep up the good work.
Indeed. As I mention near the end of the vid, most fish rely on their lateral lines to zero in on prey, but once they get close, I'd prefer to be bouncing something they can see.
Interesting! This has opened my eyes to black and black/blue baits.
Great Video! I fish in Galveston Tx and the water is almost always stained and brown. I've exclusively learned to almost always throw black soft plastics. Like you said, stained water, dark lures, clear water, natural colors.
What’s a good fishing spot in Galveston ?
Nice video! Thanks.
Great video Todd, thanks. Have you done a popping cork tutorial before? I saw you had the Versa Maxx cork. Love those.
I've talked about how I use popping corks in a number of videos, but haven't really done a classic "tutorial." The Versamaxx Bolt, to me, was a game-changer. Being able to adjust depth in seconds should make everyone a much better cork fisherman.
Respectfully, you are assuming that fish see and observe in the same color spectrum as we do. Water temp, light, etc. All effect. The comment that lures are designed for those that fish is spot on!
Oh yea, lots of colors end looking very similar with dichromatic vision.
I usually base mine on whether the bait will reflect, thus shine (murkier water) or soak up colors thus giving it more camouflage (clear water). Then there's that middle ground of real natural colors that can be used in about all situations.
Not only that, but water begins to filter out the light spectrum with depth. Your lure's colors change in tone the deeper they go.
I did exactly what you said. Cast a black and blue craw bait in my neighborhood pressured pond and caught more bass than my neighbor did lol. Very good video and now im going to stick with natural colors and darker color bait in muddy water!!
Very good experiment
I live in Georgia where most of the soil is clay, about 95% of all my lures are dark colored, black n blues or black n reds, or solid black, also I found that if you’re going to use anything with a blade, gold colors work best. Just from my experience but hey I’m no expert.
Bro which colour do u use
Dark, lemon, and white did well. Thanks for the info. I fish a few lakes that look like chocolate milk and I just had this conversation with my buddy. I appreciate the effort and vid!
That black and blue craw actually had some good action on that jighead I'm definitely going to try it out...thanks for the video it was very helpful
Great video 👍👍. Tight lines
*Lures looks very realistic even prunked my friends with it.Looks very durable **enjoyable.fishing** recommend sunk very good into the water.Cons: Storage package could be bigger.*
Very good! There are also shades of pink that will stand out in cloudy water. Pastel pink won't, but a dark fluorescent pink will...same with chartreuse.
Tightest of lines sir!
Frank
I appreciate the effort that you always put into these underwater vids! This has been one of the most helpful yet. Going out to the Rigolets next weekend. Have you fished out there lately?
Not in a couple months, at least. Got a report of lots of undersized redfish along with a few keepers.
Go get em !!!!!
👍🏻 great info.
Nice one Mr, very helpful. I will be using clear or white in a lake I am fishing in Lithuania, its gin clear and I have always had luck with white. This is for Pike and Perch though not Bass. Great vids dude.
Nice test. What a awesome neighborhood to have so much privacy and no traffic at the launch. That's hard to find down here in south lousiana
just the intro alone made me want to subscribe. lo!l good shit man!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIDEOS
This was awesome.
Good comparison. I always wondered how chartreuse would do. I would like to see how the gold blade shows up in those conditions. I use gold chatterbaits when it's like that.
Great video. I would like to see this repeated when the camera isn’t being shaded. Dirty water with lots of sun. Specifically how it affects the visibility of the lemon head color. I’ve always used dark baits for low light dirty water,but switch to chartreuse when the sun is out in full force. Curious if it makes a difference.
Great information/confirmation. I agree with you general assessment too . But I did have one particular trip where the conventional wisdom went out the door. This was several years ago now; fishing the tressles throwing avocado Dudley's picking up one or 2 here and there. Came across a guy that was asses & elbows every cast. Got close enough to see the color he was throwing. It was Dudley's Purple haze (light violet top, pearl bottom). The water was nasty dirty that day, but for whatever reason, they hit that light color every cast after we switched. I will say, that that incident was the only one I ever had with reverse color scheme.
Very nice video!
this stuff is always so interesting to see and talk about. if we were to apply this all to walleye fishing, the first 3 colors would most likely produce the most on a river day in and day out. same river for smallies the darker lures would be where you would start. crappie could be any color on any given day.
I keep 5 color/schemes in my box at all times. Red/black, watermelon, black, blue/black, silver/black. That over a couple decade's of fishing has been the most predominant colors ive ever used. That goes for soft and hard baits. Good video.
Marsh man definitely reads the comments. One of my favorite fishing channel on TH-cam.
It was a good suggestion. Glad you made it.
thank you for sharing
Been Bassin since the 70's. My go-to color in muddy water has always been black!
Great video.
Great video
ThanksBro!! That wuz truly awesome!!! Loved it... Academy here I commme!!!
To support the results, if the bait is above the fish there will be even more contrast due to the more sun light when looking up. Excellent vid keep it up.
“Backdown ramp?” That’s a new one.
Remember different fish have eyes tuned to lower light or dirtier water. Totally different than the camera light sensitivity. Over all still a great test, good job.
Good video great info..
Throw a bright pink worm in next time like a yum bubblegum finesse worm
We have a local pond of about 2 acres . The water is also always a color I call coffee with cream in it. This pond isn't fished often because the color turns people off but there are some huge bass and channel cats. There is a fair amount of redbreast sunfish and bluegills . Every bluegill and redbreast I have caught was almost completely silver without any other color. Even when the redbreast were breeding not much color. Why because silver almost disappears.
The channel cats are keeping the pond muddy...but, yeah, silver is no good in chocolate water.
Excellent you just got an sub
Great video, but i think it should be mentioned that fish don't have the same vision as us. The ones we couldn't make out, they might see perfectly, and vice-versa...
I think fish have different eye sight the. Us humans .
Tony Cash
I was thinking the same thing!
Also i believe they can see higher frequency then we can. If most humans can only see up to 40 hertz they maybe able to see up to 100 or more hertz. How else can they see a vibrating tail under dark dirty water. Or a small fast wasp coming down to land on the water. We must appear to be in slow motion to them lol.
You're right. Meaningles test.
Actually no he's not. Fish have both rods and cones like us so they're vision is similar to ours save for a coating on the lens so they can see clearly underwater.
@@deannelson9565 It cant be similar to our vision because of the size of the "processor " their eyes are connected to. Thats a fact I learned when I did my degree.
@First Last I'm sure one of us did Google it because the first thing he thought of when he saw this was what do fish actually see but instead of just randomly making posts guessing about it that person may have actually gone and done some research on it! So I would suggest to mark he may want to use his larger processor and go actually do some research on it to find out that yes they do actually see the same as we do. Although it does of course Very species to species since they're all designed for different things.
Nice my friend 😎😎😎
There’s a fish 🐠 or something coming up to investigate the first ‘swim bait’
Goughs Bastard 🤔
Goughs Bastard either i don't know how to spell anymore, or you don't know how to spell. i'm going with you not knowing how to spell
Vance Kaetsu He was mocking me and my lack of proper usage. Not that I care much. It would be nice if we could hit all these grammar police in the face. Not because their right, but because typically mistakes are based on the lack of common usage and improper usage. Words typically being shortened and or abbreviated for texting are not on the grammar police radar. Pretty much shows the ignorance of trying to use TH-cam threads as a means to be a English teacher 👨🏫..... trolls with purpose I guess
It’s like talking to someone and they stop ✋ 🛑 you to point out a word you misused. “Wait, did you say conversate!?? That is not a word!!!??”
Do fish see the same as we do? A full sapphire blue bait is the best for dark water like that
No they dont. Their brain is so tiny they cant.
The jig-head is what I see best in all cases. They are puter colored. I wonder if what little light hits & reflects off the bait, a solid color may do it better than a plastic w/some transparency that may absorb more light w/less reflection.
Let me know if this makes cents.
Does anybody use the midnight mullet matrix shad? I bought a pack and was curious if the color is effective in stained water?
The content is really good bro if you ever get a chance test out some lipless crankbaits rattle traps or Redeye shad maybe like a dirty water clear water scenario
white is an amazing dirty water color(one of the absolute best) but those swimbaits have some translucence to them(you can see the screwlock through the bait). A solid white pearl is my favorite for that chocolate milk water.
Thanks for the tips, especially for new fisherman.
Nobody EVER thinks of fish feeling the bait. They have a lateral line that picks up vibration. This is far more important than anyone ever realizes
I hadn't thought about it that way the darker colors would show better
The thing is "dark" refers to tone , not color. Thinking in tones and how they contrast with their surroundings makes the most sense.
Being in Florida with a lot of stained water, I've always heard people swear by dark colored soft plastics... but I've never had more success than when I've been using chartreuse worms. It's always made me feel that silhouette, action, and profile is much more important than color.