Choosing the Best Color for Bass Lures | What Bass See | Does Color Matter? | Bass Fishing Tips
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ค. 2024
- As bass anglers, we spend a lot of time talking about color. Does color matter? Most of us would say yes, but what do bass really see? I think you'll be surprised by the answer, just like I was.
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I know this an older video but I’m gonna comment anyway. I just recently saw a video on the same subject. Humans have three color receptors red blue green bass, have two red green. So in human terms, the bass are essentially colorblind. There’s a website for colorblind people and there’s a specific kind of color blindness that sees the red green spectrum only, on the website, they have a filter for that and you can put pictures up and apply the filter. It was very interesting you were spot on with the white chartreuse chartreuse does look white to the fish off-white. Specifically white was the brightest color. Orange came out is browngreen pumpkin came out as brown blue came out as green red was red and yellow was yellow. Most everything else was shades of black and gray.
LMAO, I am only 4 years behind. I just asked for some science on what bass can see in another of your videos on color selection of soft plastics. I can't believe your subscriber leave you hanging on the like button hits. But good on ya for not begging for them.
I have recently discovered your content on TH-cam and have to say that you give us real information and what I believe to be truthful rather than "you have to have this bait and that bait". I truly believe in the information you provide and will follow your post here and on facebook. Thank you and wish you all the best.
Thank you! That means a lot to me and very much appreciate you taking the time to watch.
Good job
Very interesting indeed, makes me want to experiment with some of my crank baits.
Thanks for the content !!
Great video man, it is really cool to be able to tap into all your knowledge
Thank you. I love it so much I just can never stop learning and questioning why these fish do what they do.
Great video and content as usual. Thanks for sharing this kind of information.
You’re welcome! Thanks so much for watching.
really great insight- thank you!
Thanks!
Great video
Yes... NICE Content!! rule of thumb... Darker colors in muddy water... lighter as the water clears up. Natural and lighter colors disappear more easily when the water clarity get worse.
There sure are some amazing natural color choices these days!
Good information on colors and how much they matter compared to what a bass actually sees. Nice job on the video. Tight lines from Rick
Thank you. I find that type of stuff so interesting.
Hey Steve excellent video very interesting hey Steve I remember when I first started bass and I would use watermelon worms ( green) and also Steve I use red shad stick baits and I've always had good success on green and red. Good video Steve your bringing me back to my roots and you know what Steve with all these colors that the manufacturer is making we sometimes forget about good color because someone starts catching on another color and then everyone goes out and buy's that color and then finds out that maybe that's not such a great color. Thank you professor Steve for reminding us that you don't need 10 colors. You know what I like for instance with worm fishing red shad , watermelon, and some kind of purple I don't know what it is but I've always had good luck on purple then Steve after doing some homework there's purple in gizzard shad there's light tinges of purple in bluegill so maybe that's the reason. But anyway thanks for all your scientific video they help Alot and give us a different perspective about bass fishing and that's good and you what's another thing I've learned over the years of fishing Steve there is alot more bass than we think there is when we stop at a spot to fish just because you're not getting bit that doesn't mean there not there. Hey Steve you know what I think you have to refine our presentation. God bless you and your family. Ps Steve I'm fascinated by some of these videos you do keep up the good work professor.
You can use any color you want ....as long as it's black!!!
I do not recall if it was in the late 1970's or early 1980s when
Tom Mann the GF of soft plastic worms said it best when he stated:
"90% of luer colors catch far more fisherman than fish" or words to that
effect
For the first 40 years of fishing as an adult I went through fases of gotta have gotta try colors I have over a 100 assorted crankbaits in all kinds of different color schemes and honestly I ended up useing the colors that best mimic the actual pray fish 90% of the time to catch 90% of my fish
The ONLY three exception to that was chartreuse and chartreuse and white and firetiger
Other than that 90% of my fish get caught on hard and soft plastic baits whos colors closely resemble bluegill, shad, pearch, shiners or chubs
I have several 40qt Rubbermaid storage totes full of exotic colored soft plastic worms I haven't used in years
My go to colors for soft plastic worms is three different versions of Green pumpkin
Three different versions of Watermelon
Three different versions of black/blue metallic
Redbug
Junebug
Soft plastic creatures and crayfish its
Again same three different color versions of green pumpkin, Watermelon,
New last year were two new colors for creature and crayfish I have absolutely no doubt working extremely well
They were
Okeechobee craw and
Tilapia
In soft plastic flukes and swimbaits again its the same three different color versions of Watermelon
But White Ice/Sight Fish and Ghost Shad work astonishingly well
Now as far as soft plastics go Im down to using only 9 different colors
As far as hard baits its only colors that imitate baitfish or chartreuse and white or Firetiger
I have no explanation for this but I fish three lakes near my home 90% of the time
Discovered Chatterbaits four years ago
Bought them in White and chartreuse metallic flake , black, greenpumpkin and Watermelon
Black blue metallic flake
After four years and 100s upon 100s of bass I only fish two colors anymore
Black blue metallic flake with a Zoom fluke trailer in Avocado red in the spring from march till certain its peek pre spawn
Then from pre spawn that point on white chartreuse metallic flake skirt with a 4" Keitech Easy shiner white Ice swim bait with the tail dipped in chartreuse dye and its belly and sides highlighted with an orange Spike-it marker
I Tried multiple other makes and colors of chatterbaits with straight tailed trailers but a 1/4oz-3/8oz chartreuse and white chatterbait with a Keitech Easy Shiner trailer just flat out works so much better than any other chatterbait color I tried and believe me I wanted them to work as I have over $100 in chatterbaits I seldom if ever use
It is my absolute belief bass absolutely ARE NOT color blind as many contend and I personally have to to to many times fished an area with one color hard or soft bait of a particular color and caught few to no fish put on the same exact luer and the ONLY difference is color and absolutely murdered the bass this has happened fishing crankbaits spinnerbaits chatterbaits and soft plastics
One such example in the extreme was my friend and I fishing post spawn Kankakee river smallmouth at the dam in DT Kankakee we were fishing absolutely identical spin casting rods and reels exact same fishing line except he was fishing with a black and silver #9 sinking Reapala I was fishing a #9 black and gold sinking Rapala he was catching a smallie every 4th or 5th cast I couldn't BUY a bite
We swithced setups FIRST cast I caught a smallmouth caught four more in 25 casts my friend caught nothing he understandably said time to swith back I had a #11 black and silver Rapala on me and yes caught a few smallies but nothing like my friend was waded back to shore went to my truck hot all three of my #9 black and silver sinking Rapalas and had a killer good day. Had nearly identical experiences fishing a black and yellow spinnerbait got nothing same spinnerbait in white chartreuse killed the bass same with using a greenpumpkin chatterbait got zip switched to a white chartreuse chatterbait again did great.
This is all great info! Thanks for sharing it.
An interesting note from the article: Some chartreuse dyes have fluorescence that makes them “whiter than white.” That makes me ask, has anybody toyed with phosphorescent dyes? It seems that would be very effective in deep waters.
That would be a very interesting experiment for sure! I had heard the same thing one time. I’ll have to do some tinkering around with that.
I know they are used for salmon fishing on the Great Lakes. Typically spoons I believe. Not really familiar
@@SteveRogersOutdoors Clarification for tinkering:
Phosphorescent dyes absorb light energy and release it over time. Fluorescent dyes absorb UV and reradiate the energy as visible light immediately.
So, fluorescent dyes would benefit only at shallow depths while phosphorescent dyes would benefit at lower depths.
Randy got me applying yellow highlighter to all my lures, but due to absorption of longer light wavelengths by water, I think it’s useless in the dark and deep waters where I fish for bass.
We have all had days where one solid color kills them then the bite shuts down. We change colors and, sometimes lures to get it going again. I heard one TH-camr say he was never going to use chartreuse again because of that same study! I say to give the fish what they want; in speed, color size and action. We will never fully understand what is going on in their little brain. Why try? Go with what you know and go fishing!
That the key, just go fishing! Thanks so much!
If I had three colors to choose and only three red white and black. If I had one color white.
Excellent list! Thank you.
Well I've caught dozens of smallmouth on my white plopper in the last few weeks...but my natural bluegill color has only caught 2. Same with my silver and black...only a couple.
Contrast has nothing to do with it. Plus you said a lot of nothing and took a long time to say it.
I’ve worked hard in recent months to really shorten things up and get right to it. Thanks for the feedback! Have a terrific day.
Wow! A whole few weeks!