Spinnerbait color…

Not sure I will stir up much discussion with my question, but I remember a fairly recent post talking about many people’s “go-to” lure is the white spinnerbait…

So, if the most common and most successful JIG color is Black/Blue… why wouldn’t a Black/Blue Spinnerbait be successful? Not many made out there, but I know Dave’s Tounament Tackle makes one… (I just picked one up). I was going to throw it tomorrow, but am I making a mistake? Would dirty water make sense to throw dark? I swim a Black/Blue jig in dirty water, so…

Why White Spinnerbait? Why Black/Blue Jig?

What are your studly (or humble) opinions out there?

A spinnerbait giver the profile of a baitfish. The blades provide the flash and the skirt is the body. Jigs immitate crawfish and in doing so they are a darker offering. Black being the primary color with blue filling in for many of the variations in molt stage and light reflections.
If I were using spinnerbaits I would be using a pearl with some type of flash in the skirt and in Jigs I like Brown mixed with a little more brown.
jc

The only time I throw a plain white spinnerbait is in the summer through fall. As for off-colored skirts like black/blue, purple,…whatever…..I use them on buzzbaits.

Why because Bassmaster Magazine told me in an article. Anyway, enough with the pitbull jokes.

All kidding aside, with this dark water your spinnerbait better go thump. I would ditch the willow leaf blades for something a little wider. Then I would pull it slow, real slow so your rod tip dances.

I doubt I’ve answered your questions, but personally I don’t use darker colored skirts on my spinnerbaits. That is due to the confidence I have in the colors I choose.(they catch fish)

Lastly, we never boated a keeper on a spinnerbait Sunday. Take that for what it’s worth. Rainy days have been my best days for a spinnerbait too. Something to be said there…

What??? You sure did boat a keeper on a spinnerbait. It was just to small to go in the bucket. You pulled him right off the…..
jc

Hey Blue…wil you send me the article please

When the water is like chocolate milk, I love a black spinnerbait with a copper or even a red blade.

I agree with JC’s differenciation between the lures, but to bring up his favorite subject, swimming a jig , I think in this technique the jig is actually more of a baitfish imitator. I would say though, black, blue, purple, gold (chartruse), many of these colors may been seen by bass as a flash of sunfish, crappie, perch, which may make the jig an effective baitfish imitator in dark colors, depending on trailer selection.

If all these theories are right, then what does a plastic worm represent? Including what color for whatever they represent.

It looks like any of the other aquatic etables that swim around on the bottom. Eels, worms, lamprey, mudpuppies, you name it.
Colors…. See documentation on forage base.
jc

Not to be too big a smart …

But, what does Chartruese or Bubble Gum represent?

A Water logged Earthworm. and a cicada

Ever see a dogfish during the spawn????
jc

I caught a doggie last week that was Lime GREEN..

I used to make my own spinnerbaits, and used three colors for the skirts. Black, White, and yellow. I used the black ones at night, the yellow ones when the sun was high, and the white ones at dawn/dusk. I have no idea why this might be the way to go other than the fact that I had a lot of confidence doing this.

One other point: Cleaner water I would use big willow leaf blades and in dirtier water I liked big Colorado blades. More thump!

Now I do all of my bassin’ with a flyrod, and still use those three basic colors.

I really do not think that color makes that much difference. If the fish are aggressive enough to hit a spinnerbait in the first place, then color is the probably not the trigger. I would concentrate more on speed and depth. Find out the activity level of the fish. Blade type and size has already been mentioned. Windy days where there is a good wind driven current can be really good for spinnerbaitin.

I keep my spinnerbait selection pretty simple- chartreuse/ white and plain white. Ususally throw the chrt/wht with a tandem colorado/ arkansas blade configuration in dirty water and the plain white with double willows in cleaner water. One exception, fish on Chisago seem to go nuts for red- go figure!
Steve

There is something to be said for dark water, and
dark spinnerbaits. Many moons ago, on a small brown
stained morraine lake, I took a 22.875″ largemouth,
on a brown and purple spinnerbait, with a gold willowleaf
blade. Since then on other stained or muddy waters, I
have repeated catching better fish on similar dark
spinnerbaits. I usually fish pearl white, Chatruese/White,
or Bluegill colored spinnerbaits, but give me a cloudy, and
windy, day on stained water, and I will by throwing
something like that brown and purple spinner.

Big Bass Bane

Bubble gum, from what I’ve been told, seems to represent a blue gill after the blue gill has spawned.

The chart., the way I understand it, is the orange or yellow color in the a blue gill or golden shinner.

Those are my $.02.

Thanks ,

Bait color is one thing but I always use a different color trailer . White SB – chartruse or orange trailer. Chatruse sb white trailer. Orange trailer is getting the nod more and more .

Dark water = dark skirt, copper or painted colorados, Stained = chart and white skirt, silver indiana, clean = natural forage based skirts, silver willows. This is my abbreviated version.

… and you all thought the Mississippi water clarity was muddy hahaha!!

Curt

I Have a personal favorite color pattern-Chart. head with black and purple skirt. I have been having excellent results with this combo since early spring.