The age old question with a fishing twist: What’s your favorite color?
Family discussions at my house always gravitate toward fishing. Almost every time, color and style comes up. We fish a lost of soft plastics in our family. They are versatile, fairly inexpensive and produce every season of the year. The styles and colors however, are diverse.
My brother loves to throw a Junebug colored Yum Dinger. He especially likes to throw these when he can find it in the 3″ variety but now they’re almost all 4″. I’d call him crazy but I’ve seen him consistently put fish in the boat.
My Dad throws a lot of different baits but if I made him choose one, and he could find it, I’d bank on the 4″ Berkley Power Worm in Camo. A close second would be a sandworm.
For me, it’s a 4″ Hag’s Tornado in Watermelon Chartreuse. Is it any wonder I do a lot of finesse fishing? My whole family does it and has for decades.
So if we fish the same waters primarily,together much of the time, why different color preferences?
Catches and Confidence.
I feel like I could catch Moby Dick on a 4″ Hag’s in WC. I have consistently put fish in the kayak. If I have a skunk day going on, I know I can catch fish on it. The first time I thought it could happen and it did, the confidence started to build. As I repeated the cycle and it continued to be true, it became known to me that I could put a fish in the boat with this bait. I proved it again on Friday. No fish the first three hours. Switched back to my confidence bait and bam, two fish in 10 minutes.
I have seen my brother catch what had to be every fish off of a bank on his bait. The same for my Dad. When I try to use their colors the results are underwhelming.
The cool thing is, it might be a color on a crankbait at a certain lake. I know a guy like that. He has won a lot of money (some of it mine) on a Central Texas lake with one particular color. He knows it’s special too because that is a secret color only a few know.
I have another buddy who has a particular style and color of trailer he uses on spinnerbaits.
Call it hocum, voodoo, confidence or coincidence but I bet if you think about it for two seconds, you have a color you always go back to.
So, what is it? Let me know here in the comments or on Facebook.