White creature baits

Any of you ever use white anything? Also do some of you switch from straight worms to a creature feature later in the summer? Used to every now and then use a white jig, in deeper water, fish would hit that thing hard. Got some nice looking jig heads was going to paint one of the heads white, does the jig head color even matter? Know what your thinking, too much time on his hands, I’m sitting here waiting for 2 yards of gravel that I get to spread out, I’ll be busy soon enough!

White is a standard color For me to use. Maybe not the primary color every day, but it has its days

I believe sometimes the color of the jighead does matter, some days it does not. Being cheap, I use unpainted a fair amount of the time. White can be a great color. Best days are those when it does not matter what color you use, everything works. Mr. Murphy, you know that guy that makes laws that kick our butts, has dictated the color that you only have a few of will always dictate the bite.

I’m not a great jig fisherman but I typically throw very natural colored jigs and trailers. PB&J, green pumpkin or a craw color. Also Black with Blue flake is always a safe bet. Also I typically only throw creature baits on shallow cover such as docks or laydowns. If I’m out fishing deep it’s usually a worm. Just what works for me.

14 do you fish lots of clear lakes? I know you fish WBL a lot, when you fish clear lakes you throw lots of natural colors-I had good success on Big Marine (back when I fished it a lot) with white. White is a natural color it is the vulnerable underside color to most fish and crayfish-have not used it on a jig all year now tomorrow I will.

tim hurley wrote:

14 do you fish lots of clear lakes? I know you fish WBL a lot, when you fish clear lakes you throw lots of natural colors-I had good success on Big Marine (back when I fished it a lot) with white. White is a natural color it is the vulnerable underside color to most fish and crayfish-have not used it on a jig all year now tomorrow I will.

I actually probably fish stained lakes more. WB is really the only true clear lake I fish. I typically go to dark colors in stained water but white can certainly work. I really only use white creature baits when I’m sight fishing bedding bass in the spring because it’s so much easier to see.

It’s one of the best musky jig colors that I know of.

Lure color like lure choice is speculative at best – what works works when it works. There are no guarantees when it comes to time and place that our preferences are universally better than anyone else’s. Many experiences using different colors and catching or not catching fish on them determines preference-based beliefs. Key is trying out different lure based choices over time, recording them and referring to them for future reference.
The truth is in the catching – period.

In my experience, jig head color + soft plastics doesn’t matter or if it does, it’s one of two possibilities: a distraction from the lure (if a bright color) or makes the bait appear longer.

Skirted jig heads I use are painted the same color as the skirt. I bought them that way, they catch fish, so why change? I could tie skirts on unpainted jigs and may yet do so like my experiment using a white skirt and white, size #1 pork frog years in a local lake. It did very well…haven’t used it since.

Lure design preferences like color can’t be generalized into a rule. What seems to work well in one water may not in another in the same week or even year. Of course the more I fish and catch fish using certain design/color combinations, the more I believe in them in general.

Natural is not a word I would use when choosing lures or colors but visibility descriptions such as subtle, bright, flashy, black and others as more relevant to what fish actually see depending on time of day, overhead light conditions (clouds) and water color due to mud or algae. Depth fished and weeds play a part.

Some colors in my experience work better in most waters just as do some lures. Black jig and trailer is the usual color combo I can trust. About 15 different colored soft plastics can be counted in general where I fish and the species fished for. Soft plastics have the most color and design options for most waters I fish, crankbaits the least IMO.

This isn’t to say that what I use would or would not do as well for any of you but that trying & catching IS believing.