Stop Wasting Money on all those COLORS!! You only need FOUR Lure Colors! #mrbasstv

#stopwastingmoney #colorisoverrated #basslures #senko
This has been quite the topic on the Mr Bass livestreams lately. My good buddy Steve Chapman from @GetUrFishOn brought this up on one of our very first episodes of the Mr Bass & Get Ur Fish On Podcast. DOES COLOR MATTER? He said that it does not matter and that surprised me because I think it does matter. Since then we have been interviewing professional fishermen and asking them the same question and they pretty much have been giving us the same answer. In this video I explain their thinking and talk about the importance of color in bass fishing lures. Is it overkill? Do you really need 1,000 different colors? Are three or four colors enough to do it all? This was a fun video for me. I hope you enjoy it!

Here are some of the lures in the video:

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[fhacim]

10:35 - Black/Blue, Green pumpkin, white, natural color (watermelon)

[bosnian]

Let’s face reality, most of the lures are created to catch fisherman not fish 😏

[vinnylivoti]

The late great Doug Hannon (aka the Bass Professor) has a very detailed video here on YouTube all about color. Worth a watch.

[Frank-stgd]

I have never seen a grub swimming in the water in all the years I fished.lol😂😂😂😂

[slowbra]

I do agree to an extent. Generally i swap lures or colors after 10 minutes of not getting bit just to figure out what they want and can see that day. One day they lit me up on black and blue. One day i went 2 hours with no bites until my ol lady used a pink and white paddle tail on a ned rig and that was all they would hit that day. And i never would have figured that out if she didnt buy that. Right now (south central louisiana) all they want is bright. Chartreuse. That damn pink paddle tale. And red. To be fair running red here makes sense because we have so many crawfish but still. Color is very area and water dependant as well as weather. The water here only has about 3 to 5 inches of visibility at the most. And ranges from green to brown so sometimes we need those bright colors that arnt overfished just to get them on

[RogerFordTheSmilingBassHole]

Thanks!
I fish 1 lake 97% of the time.
Smallmouth (my favorite) and some largemouth.
Clear water.
My 2 main Senko colors are white (with silver sparkle) and green pumpkin (red or black flake).
Great advice! Thanks!

[vegasvato]

In addition to its already impressive versatility, the Speed Worm can also be cut into two separate pieces. The cut-tail end makes a Perfect Grub, and the front end can be an anchor point for a Tail-Spinner...

[mikefromoh]

Nice video. I really liked and agreed with your 90/10 principal and also how you said that 10 doesn’t matter too much because it’s hard to dial in.

Couple of my observations- I fish mostly green tint water that is 0-3 foot visibility:

I like natural colors but with some contrast or something to make it stand out from the bottom and water color. For example I was throwing watermelon tube in a river and it like disappeared against the bottom. Then I put on green pumpkin and it blended but was easier to see, and got bit more. Then in a really fast section of the river, in the rapid, a brown one stood out more as it tumbled through the current.

Another example- will choose a green pumpkin purple flake over straight GP every day. Also I like your 4 colors principal but something about the color purple or junebug, especially in worms big and small, could just be my confidence….

Finally, certain high pressure areas I think having having an unusual color can be helpful. Like a hot pink or a chartreuse or a straight black or brown. Doesn’t always work but it can be something to try, just like a red rattletrap.

I haven’t completely figured hard baits out yet, except I have high confident in the perch colors and pattern in crankbaits, jerkbaits, and spinnerbaits.

[joeschmoe]

This information is SOOO vital for beginners like me. And it is SOOO hard to find!!!

[paulziebell]

Fishing with a friend on a cloudy day and he started hitting on white. So I found a few white plastics but I quickly got bit off by a muskie/pike. So all I had left was pink, which my friend made fun of, and started hammering the fish. He couldn't catch a fish when I threw the pink. He didn't make fun any more.

[mikecollett]

This is a year late but supports your theory. Smallmouth fishing on Erie, 18'-20' off point Pelee. Bouncing tubes on 6# test, 5/16 oz. . GP with red fleck out produced GP with gold fleck 3 or 4 to one. Opened my eyes to the possibility.

[texbassman]

I believe color does matter based on the factors that you mentioned… But in choosing color, I basically stay with Green Pumpkin, Blue/Black, Watermelon and some white for Shad baits… Of Course, I learned the hard way in fishing club tournaments for years and years; easy to amass hundreds and hundreds of bags of different color baits only to go back to the basic colors I mentioned earlier.

[claudegagne]

Imake whit senkos with silver flake and pearlized powder. I find it adds flash. Black and blue is my go-to. When that fails I turn to bubblegum.

[robertstorms]

I have played this out myself many times in West Tn. 80-90% of my big fish 4lb and up are caught on a white shad with black back.

[michaeljohnson]

Very informative!! Thank you for sharing . Keep up the great work

[msquared]

One thing I’ve learned from World’s Worst Fishing is that all 4 of those white senkos are most likely the same exact white color, but flake colors can really seem to change the color of the plastic

[tracynewman]

Yes I agree with you I’ve been pouring my own soft plastics for 5 years now so I have all the colors but the 40years experience on the water helps know when to change colors and sometimes not… just be open minded to the conditions experiment and have more than 3 or 4 colors in your boat also I think yellow is the most over looked color in fishing🤫

[HOBFMS]

I only use earthworm/chartuese tail senkos (wacky rig), spoiler shads (crappie), and crawdad bugs for Texas rig and top water (any color)

[brianlee]

Thanks for the video Mr. Bass. Color matters when it comes to the silhouette on bright sunny days, and cloudy days. That's it. You are correct sir!

[chootum]

Bass are colorblind. They have the condition called Tritanopia. They cannot see colors in the blue and violet scale. Also, they cannot differentiate between white and chartreuse, or silver and gold to bass black and blue and Junebug are the exact same color knowing this will save you a lot of money a spinner bait and a chartreuse spinner bait are the exact same color to a bass.