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Soft Plastic Color Recipes
Curt:
--- Quote from: Mitz on February 14, 2015, 09:00:13 AM ---I have been making my own baits now for a while and have really found a couple of colors I stick with however I'm amazed how colors I just throw together tend to work so good.
Sometimes going off script really pays off! I'll post some of my creations.
-Mitz
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Sometimes it makes you wonder if maybe we place too much emphasis on color? Hmmm (hmm)
Curt:
--- Quote from: Bullet3119 on February 14, 2015, 09:01:56 AM ---There are a couple of colors we've found to work pretty much everywhere though.
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This is pretty true everywhere. I think that we, as anglers, tend to make things more complicated than they need to be.
But if you pour your own baits, or even make your own kind of other lures, experimenting with different colors is half the fun (yes)
Mitz:
--- Quote ---Sometimes it makes you wonder if maybe we place too much emphasis on color? Hmmm (hmm)
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When your catching them yeah but when they are not biting the bottom of my boat looks like a yard sale gone bad. I throw every color I have. That is another reason I limit what is in my boat so I don't spend more time changing then fishing.
Curt:
--- Quote from: Mitz on February 14, 2015, 09:06:17 AM ---
--- Quote ---Sometimes it makes you wonder if maybe we place too much emphasis on color? Hmmm (hmm)
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When your catching them yeah but when they are not biting the bottom of my boat looks like a yard sale gone bad. I throw every color I have. That is another reason I limit what is in my boat so I don't spend more time changing then fishing.
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Exactly. We make it too complicated. Changing colors can sometimes make a difference, I won't argue that point. But most times changing presentations will make more of a difference ;)
Here's a good example of when a color change did make a huge difference.
I was out fishing with my brother-in-law on a sunny day on a very small lake with very clear water. I was throwing a T rigged red shad 7 inch worm. I wasn't getting bit.
He started throwing a T rigged worm, same size and style, but in a green shad. He was hammering the bass!
After this went on for a while, I changed to green shad and wham, it was on for me too!
Clearly a color preference that day. I tend to think it was more because of the water color than because the bass preferred a certain color. But the bass never did whisper in my ear to tell me why (giggle)
Bullet3119:
I agree totally..that sometimes it does matter. I was just saying a lot of times there is a few go to colors (maybe not a stock color ;)) that seem to work in most normal conditions.
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