Best color plastics

What are everyone’s favorite color plastics?

Nothing fancy here, pro blue, firecracker chart, and chart pepper in dirtier water.

Just buy a lot of them. Your are always going to want that one color you dont have with.

White
Purple/chartreuse
Firecracker/chartreuse
Green/Orange core
Cotton candy
Motor oil
Green/white core

Gulp smelt, caught them througout the seasons with em.

X2 – gotta have them all

The one the fish are biting buy them all

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Gulp smelt, caught them througout the seasons with em.

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-White 4in curly tails from Gander Mtn barely came off my line last year for walleyes and smallmouths. Pic is of that plastic on a Owner Sled head hook. (Fell in love with those jigs/or hooks last year. Work fantastic in snaggy/shallow situations)

-Otherwise I use lots of 3in orange/light orange twister tails.

-Gulp 3in smelt (straight tail) is a go to as well.
-Powerbait Rippleshads (anywhere from 3-5in)—super versitile.
-Northland Impulse paddletail minnows (black/white or electric chicken)

I purchase different plastics all the time, but these 5 are the only ones that I typically need.
Go get em’

X2 rippleshads. Actually caught more fish with those than the gulp, didn’t come to mind.

If it’s a tail, I like pink or chart mostly. Can’t go wrong with a jig head & minnow either. Last season I had my best luck on Berkley Gulp Alive.

nhamm,

Since they came out I rarely use another type of minnow style plastic. The 3″ in smelt (black/gray/white) has caught more crappie, walleye and bass than probably all my other lures put together. Besides jigging, they are amazing for swimming jigs with any old jig head, got an amazing side to side rolling wobble. I plan on experimenting more with the 4″ and 5″ for some pike and musky this summer.

Only con I have with them is when using them for walleyes you will end up with lots and lots of baits with tails bitten off, which kinda renders them useless.

I agree. The fire tiger when the water clears up in fall killed the SMB, and dragging outside bends the deeper sections with the smelt would kick out some eyes. Smelt overall took the eyes from opener, all the way into fall. Can’t beat the white bfishn paddletail come muddy water for the SMB. I never had a problem with any tails bit off, ever, the eyes will pop off quite a bit, and once the plastic is ripped at the base forget about them running true again.