FWIW, many years ago I was at a local B.A.S.S. convention where Tom Mann (maker of the Jelly Worm) was the featured speaker. He was asked about his favorite worm color and said that he just grabbed whatever worms were in the reject bin at the warehouse. He also added that while his baits are designed to catch fish, tackle companies make lots of colors to catch fisherman.
Tom was a rebel wooooo. That's an old story I promise you you fish a yellow worm I fish Junebug or pumpkin you will have the hurt put on you. Back in the Jelly worm day black and purple was about all he had lol
I completely agree, I mainly use Senko green pumpkin with watermelon and then I ran out and started using the black flake at the bottom of my bag and it crushes fish just as well. I don't know why anybody else would use a different color except it's too easy and you want a little more of a challenge.
Nathan I enjoy your simplistic approach to fishing. I wish I could stay that focused but I’m starting to think more like you each episode you put out. Keep up the great work.
Those baits work sometimes. They are cheaply made though so they fall apart quickly. You actually spend less money buying higher quality because they last longer. Like my old man used to say, "I'm too poor to buy cheap tools"
Budget baits that work: Strike king Yum Net bait Big bite baits Zoom Berkley Colors: green pumpkin, white, green n blue, black n blue, red, perch colors, blue gill colors, black Specific baits: Yum dinger Strike king shimme stick Big bite trick stick or wacky stick Strike king rage craw and baby rage craw Net bait paca craw Net bait paca craw jr Zoom fluke any size Zoom salamander Zoom trick worm Zoom finesse worm Berkley general Berkley pit boss Berkley flat nose Berkley flat worm
@@smelltheglove2038 They get hung up and lost long before they were out..........Cheap tools are fine just working around the house. you wont ever were them out, they dont get used every day .....
Unfortunately winter gets boring around here so I buy more colors than I need. I have multiple colors of trick and finesse worms. My soft plastic bags consist of trick/finesee worms, uv speed craws, christie craws, chunks, flukes and paddle tail minnows. I usually keep it simple with basic green pumpkin or black/blue flake but if certain baits work I will buy other colors. I have noticed color make a difference some days but other days they dont care as much.
you need to dial in during the winter, buying colors for finesse is acceptable imo. i fish some micro finesse because my lake in nyc is extremely pressured, and fish will definitely be honed in on a certain presentation
I generally agree about color, however if most guys are using the same general color in the area, I think it does make a difference to use something different.
YEAH but that 'Green Pumpkin Watermelon Flake w/a Vanilla Tail' is a MUST HAVE in Lake OsheeBooshee... One of the best Vids I've seen in a while, preach it Bro! I catch 90% of my Bass, using 3 Baits & 3 colors. New Sub from Indiana.
More like 30-35 here when I was mailing away half paychecks to Johnny Morris and his band of Springfield MO troops. They got plenty before I started thinking like this
Very good advice! I have been saying this since the 80s (yeah, I'm old)...color does matter, but NOT at hyper-specific individual shade level. Like Nathan is saying, the profile (shape) of your bait is by far the most important factor and as far as color, all you need is one dark variety and one light variety of each bait.
I already do this! Went crazy years ago with every soft plastic, but very quickly went to Senko, Craws, fluke, & beaver only with pumpkin, watermelon w/ red Flake, pearl/translucent, Black with blue Flake colors and that's it.
This is going to sound a little crazy, but I still have (bought out a local dealer once and got everything he had) are Creme 7" paddle tail worms. black, purple and red. My other favorite for my area (Northern California) is a color called "Rotten Tomato". A custom color I get at Fisherman's Warehouse. It's swirled black and made by Missile Baits. They have a Spunk Shad in that color but I have never fished it. The Sacramento delta is a world class fishery and has hosted many pro tournaments with the biggest stars in MLF. Besides Clear Lake up north, it's my go to and flipping jigs with craw trailers is the way to go. Great information. It makes a lot of sense. Tight lines friends!
Amazing video. I have wasted a lot of money on useless plastics. I now realize, 3 and 4 inch paddletails. Green/white/grey depending on colour of water....all that you need. For sea/ocean surf...all you need are a few chrome spoons and a few surface lures..thats it
Excellence video Nathan. I think most of us have more plastics and lures than we'll ever use. I put packages together for kids and the local high school bass fishing team with my extra lures. Keep up the good work.
Thanx Nathan. Everyone says color isn't important until they run out of their favorite color. I fish tidal Maryland and stock up every year with green pumpkin blue.
What they really don’t want you to know is that the $3 Temu savage gear swimbait knock offs catches the same amount of fish, and is identical in every dimension as the $30+ original. I’m pretty sure they come out of the same production facility & are just scalped from on hand inventory.
I needed this video years ago. I’m starting to simplify my tackle. This and your next video on hard tackle will go a long way. I always thought KISS principle worked for everything but have not applied it to fishing till now. Also, 80/20 rule applies, I’ve discovered I fish same soft or hard baits each time I go out. Rarely try baits I don’t have confidence in. Looking forward to carrying less soft and hard tackle this year.
Great video Nathan!!! Thanks for those soft plastic tips!! Hopefully I can put the river tips into good practice here in PA. Thanks again!!!! Happy New Year!! Stay Safe & God Bless!!! 🤠👍
I caught some crayfish in PA and alot of them had that blue/turquoise color on them and some had some orange on them. I've had alot of success with green pumpkin/turquoise blue on my beavers and creature baits.
Im good with the watermelon and red flake Yamamoto senco. If I run out of those i use green pumpkin with black flake. They both slam the smallmouth for me.
I've used tiny (1/32oz or even 1/64oz) purple curly tail for crappie and it always works. Actually had to start producing my own jig hooks for them because everything I bought was too big. I use a tiny hook with what looks like a lead head that takes up half the lure because you have to be able to cast more than 36". At times I can use it for yellow perch and bluegill but not if there's tiny fish in the school.
For pennies on the dollar, I make 95% of all my own plastics. I can buy a gallon of plastic for $60 or so, and with it, every jig trailer, large plastic worm, drop shot worm, etc, in any color I want. And what I make with that gallon could last me more than one year, and I fish A LOT.... Lurecraft has a great website and they have every mold you can imagine (molds are cheap.) It is also relatively easy to make your own mold. Great video though, I think you are totally right- and presentation really is quite important. Having said that, there are times in fishing when size and color are EXTREMELY important.
I still have some of my red worms and black eels from the late 1950s and early 1960s. I think nothing made today, shapes or colors, will outfish them for bass.
I’m somewhat colorblind and have always thought in terms of bright, dark and natural… size/profile being the most important consideration … water visibility being the starting point
I've had eyes chase my hot clown and then not take when they got close because full moon and clear water, swapped to white and route was on. Different night, clear water but no moon they only would chase and hit green, mirky water no moon another night and the hot clown was the ticket. During the day a more natural colour profile like emerald shiner or goby gets the bites. Colour is definitely an important factor. I've had trout do the same thing with bead and floating worm colours, sometimes they love pink or sometimes natural orange/brown and sometimes green/yellow.
Profile before color for sure. I let the forage base dictate the shape, and the water color dictate what color I’m going with. Color variation is all confidence but not the determining factor like you said. Awesome video as always
I agree with you on much of what you’re describing. However I fish Northwestern Wisconsin. The lake I fish can be said to be Gin Clear or at slightly green ting do to algae. In a goof I bought some Bubble Gum Zoom Super Flukes, Holy Cow did that color light the fire into the LM Bass & Pike up. Another hot color for Crappy, Bass & Pike is a Red & White Mini Tube Jig. I have caught my PB LM Bass 23 inch fishing for Crappy on. Red & White Mini Tube Jig. Why these 2 colors are hot I’m my area I don’t know, but I sware by them.
Color matters. Not to the degree some go to but I've tested this with my fishing partner for years and years. But yeah you can def decrease your loadout a lot.
@markburke390 yup to many variables in bait selection, feeding behavior, water temp, etc... you really can simplify but I know cutting back on color might not matter but sometimes it's everything. But I know I can grab a bag of senkos or a little finesse jig and if I stick to them all day odds are it'll produce for me that day at some point.
Only plastic/rubber needed is a Z-man TRD Ned Rigged. Mini TRD is deadly on stocked trout. TRD deadly on Smallies, Walleye, Channel Cats in a river setting. TRD large. Great on stripers. Color? Green pumpkin and Peanut Butter and Jelly for Stripers
Here's a little tip. You can buy 100 packs of Yum Dingers and save a ton over GYCB Senkos, even if you buy the Senkos in similar bulk. I caught my PB pitching a Dinger. If you have a favorite color (mine is black/blue flake) that you use all the time, why not save?
My addition to this as a tournament angler, have at least one pack of something in a stupid-wild color. Sometimes, for some reason, fish will just be all over the neon pinks, oranges, and chartreuses, and they won’t touch the naturals. Rare but it happens. My two winners for this are a fluke or worm in electric chicken color (pink, neon green, and yellow) and soft swimbait in chartreuse back with neon orange or red belly.
I am on board with the simple message of 4 plastic shapes. 2 colors each. 8 baits will cover vast majority of conditions...clear or stained water color...bright light to low light...river to lake. Learn a few rig techniques... to address rocks, vegetation or structure...good to go.
Lol,,, I'm in the process as I watch this video of going through my stuff and scaling it down and posting it up for sale. It's going on Mercari pretty soon, keep a lookout folks!!!
The only worms that I use are three inch senkos dropshottted. I use the pink ones and the brown/clear ones with flake inside, can't remember the color (green pumpkin flake?) I use them shore fishing along the weed edge on a dock. Mostly I fish for giant channel catfish. They gotta be at least twenty pounds for me to get any excitement Little five pound bass are boring to catch.
I tried about 6 different green senkos at a mabey 1 acre farm pond and thise fish were on fire for watermelon red or black flake,they did not care for non translucent colors or less natural glitters.
Where is the neon green or yellow or pink colors you talk about!? 🤣I have learned it is better to have 5 different glitter colors with the same base instead of 5 different base colors with the same glitter. Cheaper to buy bulk packs of baits like the yum dingers.
I agree that the glitter detail doesn't matter, and what you are saying is true for bass; but this is not universal truth when it comes to fishes vision. I know bass fisherman forget that trout fishing is a thing but it is, and they do have good vision.
But if you aren't confident (believe in the lure) its really hard to go want to throw it all day. And if you get a horrible day out of it you really will never want to throw that again. So yeah I do like to try different stuff sometimes its the shape, sometimes its the action, and sometimes its the color. But if I think it looks really like what a fish would want, I am almost certainly going to fish it longer and probably harder thinking it has to work and generally it will produce because I believed in it and put the work in.
I agree with your final assertion here- we shouldn't buy multiple shapes and colors of the same plastics. That said- I disagree with your very generalized assertion that you never need a certain size or color, or both- to get bit. That's just not true in my experience. I have seen multiple days where they would only bite a certain color or size, and if it's really tough- days where they were sensitive to both color and size. That said- there are so many different sizes and colors and baits on the market- to think you're going to buy enough of them that you'll just happen to have the exact thing they want- kind of silly. You'd have to take an extra boat to store it all. Fishing is about making your best guess, based on everything from whether, time of year, to past experience on whatever body of water you're fishing, and then hoping you guessed close enough that out of all the stuff you did bring, you have something that will work.
If you are hammering the fish you still need more than one bag. A good smallmouth strike basically destroys the senco. Its like a smoking habbit. One dollar a fish. HAHA. Worth it. But yeah four colors is all you need. But you need multiple bags of each if your actually catching fish.
39 years of tournament fishing and this video is solid advice. I carry regular sharpie markers and customize any soft plastic on the fly if need be.
fish feed by sight and smell...so I would imagine that the strong smell off the sharpie ink is costing you lots of bites.
... Once the sharpie ink dries, mask/cover that smell with a fish attracting scent of some sort.
. Jeff .
@@tbone6924 ... ... Once the sharpie ink dries, mask/cover that smell with a fish attracting scent of some sort.
FWIW, many years ago I was at a local B.A.S.S. convention where Tom Mann (maker of the Jelly Worm) was the featured speaker. He was asked about his favorite worm color and said that he just grabbed whatever worms were in the reject bin at the warehouse. He also added that while his baits are designed to catch fish, tackle companies make lots of colors to catch fisherman.
Tom was a rebel wooooo. That's an old story I promise you you fish a yellow worm I fish Junebug or pumpkin you will have the hurt put on you. Back in the Jelly worm day black and purple was about all he had lol
I'm convinced a Senko Green Pumkin black flake will catch any bass in any body of water in any part of the country.
Facts!
Absolutely the best fish catcher of all time. Anywhere, anytime
Senko sucks worst bait ever doesn’t even look like a worm jk it’s my favorite bait I have to many colors 😂
I completely agree, I mainly use Senko green pumpkin with watermelon and then I ran out and started using the black flake at the bottom of my bag and it crushes fish just as well. I don't know why anybody else would use a different color except it's too easy and you want a little more of a challenge.
As much as I don’t think colors are the trick sometimes in dirty water or during/after rain a firecraw color worm kills.
You explain everything well. You dont over explain. I like the Chanel. Thank you 👍🏿
Nathan I enjoy your simplistic approach to fishing. I wish I could stay that focused but I’m starting to think more like you each episode you put out. Keep up the great work.
Trying different colors is the fun of it!
I've been collecting for 35 yrs in Oklahoma. 🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣
Of course!
I’ve been contemplating purging my bass bag of the majority of useless (to me) lures and this video just gave me the boost. Nice video!
Can you do a video where you go to Walmart and get baits and tackle box for under like 50 or 25 or something and go fishing? Love the videos btw!
Those baits work sometimes. They are cheaply made though so they fall apart quickly. You actually spend less money buying higher quality because they last longer. Like my old man used to say, "I'm too poor to buy cheap tools"
Budget baits that work:
Strike king
Yum
Net bait
Big bite baits
Zoom
Berkley
Colors: green pumpkin, white, green n blue, black n blue, red, perch colors, blue gill colors, black
Specific baits:
Yum dinger
Strike king shimme stick
Big bite trick stick or wacky stick
Strike king rage craw and baby rage craw
Net bait paca craw
Net bait paca craw jr
Zoom fluke any size
Zoom salamander
Zoom trick worm
Zoom finesse worm
Berkley general
Berkley pit boss
Berkley flat nose
Berkley flat worm
Size 3 ewg, worm weights, senkos or zoom finesse worm. Texas rig
@@smelltheglove2038 They get hung up and lost long before they were out..........Cheap tools are fine just working around the house. you wont ever were them out, they dont get used every day .....
Unfortunately winter gets boring around here so I buy more colors than I need. I have multiple colors of trick and finesse worms. My soft plastic bags consist of trick/finesee worms, uv speed craws, christie craws, chunks, flukes and paddle tail minnows. I usually keep it simple with basic green pumpkin or black/blue flake but if certain baits work I will buy other colors. I have noticed color make a difference some days but other days they dont care as much.
you need to dial in during the winter, buying colors for finesse is acceptable imo. i fish some micro finesse because my lake in nyc is extremely pressured, and fish will definitely be honed in on a certain presentation
@gloomegloom6279 Lakes and ponds are ice except lake erie right now. I just get bored and buy stuff cause I can't fish. Lol
I generally agree about color, however if most guys are using the same general color in the area, I think it does make a difference to use something different.
YEAH but that 'Green Pumpkin Watermelon Flake w/a Vanilla Tail' is a MUST HAVE in Lake OsheeBooshee... One of the best Vids I've seen in a while, preach it Bro! I catch 90% of my Bass, using 3 Baits & 3 colors. New Sub from Indiana.
Needed this video 10 years ago lol
🤣
lol 😂
More like 30-35 here when I was mailing away half paychecks to Johnny Morris and his band of Springfield MO troops. They got plenty before I started thinking like this
Fishing gear is designed to catch fishermen not to catch fish.
90% of it I agree.
It worked. I was hooked and fileted.
Very good advice! I have been saying this since the 80s (yeah, I'm old)...color does matter, but NOT at hyper-specific individual shade level. Like Nathan is saying, the profile (shape) of your bait is by far the most important factor and as far as color, all you need is one dark variety and one light variety of each bait.
I already do this! Went crazy years ago with every soft plastic, but very quickly went to Senko, Craws, fluke, & beaver only with pumpkin, watermelon w/ red Flake, pearl/translucent, Black with blue Flake colors and that's it.
This is going to sound a little crazy, but I still have (bought out a local dealer once and got everything he had) are Creme 7" paddle tail worms. black, purple and red. My other favorite for my area (Northern California) is a color called "Rotten Tomato". A custom color I get at Fisherman's Warehouse. It's swirled black and made by Missile Baits. They have a Spunk Shad in that color but I have never fished it. The Sacramento delta is a world class fishery and has hosted many pro tournaments with the biggest stars in MLF. Besides Clear Lake up north, it's my go to and flipping jigs with craw trailers is the way to go.
Great information. It makes a lot of sense.
Tight lines friends!
Amazing video. I have wasted a lot of money on useless plastics. I now realize, 3 and 4 inch paddletails. Green/white/grey depending on colour of water....all that you need. For sea/ocean surf...all you need are a few chrome spoons and a few surface lures..thats it
Thank you!
Excellence video Nathan. I think most of us have more plastics and lures than we'll ever use. I put packages together for kids and the local high school bass fishing team with my extra lures. Keep up the good work.
Thank you!
Thanx Nathan. Everyone says color isn't important until they run out of their favorite color. I fish tidal Maryland and stock up every year with green pumpkin blue.
What they really don’t want you to know is that the $3 Temu savage gear swimbait knock offs catches the same amount of fish, and is identical in every dimension as the $30+ original. I’m pretty sure they come out of the same production facility & are just scalped from on hand inventory.
I needed this video years ago. I’m starting to simplify my tackle. This and your next video on hard tackle will go a long way. I always thought KISS principle worked for everything but have not applied it to fishing till now. Also, 80/20 rule applies, I’ve discovered I fish same soft or hard baits each time I go out. Rarely try baits I don’t have confidence in. Looking forward to carrying less soft and hard tackle this year.
Good luck!
Excellent content. Good mix of pics and drone footage.
This may be the best fishing video I’ve watched. I fell into the color trap before, but follow the 2-color rule now. Thanks!
Thanks!
Straight facts
Great video Nathan!!! Thanks for those soft plastic tips!! Hopefully I can put the river tips into good practice here in PA. Thanks again!!!! Happy New Year!! Stay Safe & God Bless!!! 🤠👍
Live in Central Florida and agree with gold and June bug.
Red disappears unless the water is really shallow so I have not had much luck with that
I have so much fun buying various colors & molds though 😅 Thanks for the advice 👍
Great advice. Keeping it simple is hard to avoid and takes confidence & self control.
Great vid boss. Let’s see your bait collection.
I caught some crayfish in PA and alot of them had that blue/turquoise color on them and some had some orange on them. I've had alot of success with green pumpkin/turquoise blue on my beavers and creature baits.
What do you mean beavers if you don’t mind?
Really helpful!!! Simple fishing is the key.
Im good with the watermelon and red flake Yamamoto senco. If I run out of those i use green pumpkin with black flake. They both slam the smallmouth for me.
I've used tiny (1/32oz or even 1/64oz) purple curly tail for crappie and it always works. Actually had to start producing my own jig hooks for them because everything I bought was too big. I use a tiny hook with what looks like a lead head that takes up half the lure because you have to be able to cast more than 36". At times I can use it for yellow perch and bluegill but not if there's tiny fish in the school.
Thank you I just started bass fishing last year and I bought multiple packs of plastic baits but I did not get the crazy colors
For pennies on the dollar, I make 95% of all my own plastics. I can buy a gallon of plastic for $60 or so, and with it, every jig trailer, large plastic worm, drop shot worm, etc, in any color I want. And what I make with that gallon could last me more than one year, and I fish A LOT.... Lurecraft has a great website and they have every mold you can imagine (molds are cheap.) It is also relatively easy to make your own mold. Great video though, I think you are totally right- and presentation really is quite important. Having said that, there are times in fishing when size and color are EXTREMELY important.
Absolutely! But for most fisherman presentation will make more of a difference
I still have some of my red worms and black eels from the late 1950s and early 1960s. I think nothing made today, shapes or colors, will outfish them for bass.
Way to describe my tackle box Nathan! Perfect! Thanks for sharing....
Thank you!
I’m somewhat colorblind and have always thought in terms of bright, dark and natural… size/profile being the most important consideration … water visibility being the starting point
Bait presentation is most important when fishing
Doug hammen said colored lures matter in different water clarity
Doug was a master, gone too soon..
I've had eyes chase my hot clown and then not take when they got close because full moon and clear water, swapped to white and route was on. Different night, clear water but no moon they only would chase and hit green, mirky water no moon another night and the hot clown was the ticket. During the day a more natural colour profile like emerald shiner or goby gets the bites. Colour is definitely an important factor. I've had trout do the same thing with bead and floating worm colours, sometimes they love pink or sometimes natural orange/brown and sometimes green/yellow.
Profile before color for sure. I let the forage base dictate the shape, and the water color dictate what color I’m going with. Color variation is all confidence but not the determining factor like you said. Awesome video as always
I agree with you on much of what you’re describing. However I fish Northwestern Wisconsin. The lake I fish can be said to be Gin Clear or at slightly green ting do to algae. In a goof I bought some Bubble Gum Zoom Super Flukes, Holy Cow did that color light the fire into the LM Bass & Pike up. Another hot color for Crappy, Bass & Pike is a Red & White Mini Tube Jig. I have caught my PB LM Bass 23 inch fishing for Crappy on. Red & White Mini Tube Jig. Why these 2 colors are hot I’m my area I don’t know, but I sware by them.
I use YUM stick worm in June Bug color and get the big bags. They always work and about 1/3 the cost of Yamamoto and not as fragile.
Color matters. Not to the degree some go to but I've tested this with my fishing partner for years and years. But yeah you can def decrease your loadout a lot.
Ive can catch a ton on one color in the lake and take that same lure to the river below the dam they won't touch it.
@markburke390 yup to many variables in bait selection, feeding behavior, water temp, etc... you really can simplify but I know cutting back on color might not matter but sometimes it's everything. But I know I can grab a bag of senkos or a little finesse jig and if I stick to them all day odds are it'll produce for me that day at some point.
Only plastic/rubber needed is a Z-man TRD Ned Rigged. Mini TRD is deadly on stocked trout. TRD deadly on Smallies, Walleye, Channel Cats in a river setting. TRD large. Great on stripers. Color? Green pumpkin and Peanut Butter and Jelly for Stripers
I used to buy every color of every bait I own. But in the end I usually just stick with like three colors all year
Light, dark, 2 inch, 3 to 4 inch, maybe some trout magnets type for panfish
Here's a little tip. You can buy 100 packs of Yum Dingers and save a ton over GYCB Senkos, even if you buy the Senkos in similar bulk. I caught my PB pitching a Dinger. If you have a favorite color (mine is black/blue flake) that you use all the time, why not save?
Nathan where do u fish most? I fish in Tennessee
Pennsylvania
Kind of funny when you're tournament fishing and certain colors trigger the bite and not lure type!
Would love for you to go through your soft plastics that you carry on the boat!
My addition to this as a tournament angler, have at least one pack of something in a stupid-wild color. Sometimes, for some reason, fish will just be all over the neon pinks, oranges, and chartreuses, and they won’t touch the naturals. Rare but it happens.
My two winners for this are a fluke or worm in electric chicken color (pink, neon green, and yellow) and soft swimbait in chartreuse back with neon orange or red belly.
I completely agree!
I am on board with the simple message of 4 plastic shapes. 2 colors each. 8 baits will cover vast majority of conditions...clear or stained water color...bright light to low light...river to lake. Learn a few rig techniques... to address rocks, vegetation or structure...good to go.
I always use pink senkos on super sunny days here in Ontario and they slam..🤷🏻♂️
Green pumpkin, black/blue, white and crawfish red in the fall.
Try a 4 inch curly tail power worm in camo on a Carolina rig , drifted in moving water, northwest smallmouth bass cannot resist
Nathan. Have you fished any of the Ozark lakes?
I have not but would like to!
Color is a aid only
Red, white, blue all day baby!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Also watermellon, black, chartreuse and sometimes gold. 3 mandatory colors and 4 optional.
Great vid. I'm guilty of over buying baits
Lol,,, I'm in the process as I watch this video of going through my stuff and scaling it down and posting it up for sale. It's going on Mercari pretty soon, keep a lookout folks!!!
Keep up the good work!
Depth and speed of the lure are 90% of thesecret to success
Truth!
Seen that when I got livescope, retrieve was way too fast.
I live in Oklahoma and the craws now have a light blue color on body and claws.
Bro the black Yamamoto catches anything even caught me a wife
Green, white, black…. Use whatever shape you want…. Just check your size (3 to 5 inches covers it)…. The end. Great video
I am never wiping my butt again. I learned a lot in this video. Thank you.
"You might catch a fish if you go fishing..".. -This guy 😂😂😂
LOL
Yea good one seppo
Green pumpkin, black and blue flake, the blackworm. Zoom lizard, basic colors
Your thoughts on the 6th Sense judge? Have you done well with it ? Thank you
I haven’t really used that one much yet!
The only worms that I use are three inch senkos dropshottted.
I use the pink ones and the brown/clear ones with flake inside, can't remember the color (green pumpkin flake?)
I use them shore fishing along the weed edge on a dock.
Mostly I fish for giant channel catfish. They gotta be at least twenty pounds for me to get any excitement
Little five pound bass are boring to catch.
Thank you very much for the video sir
Thanks for watching!
5 inch green pumpkin or watermelon Senko catches all my Personal best fish
I agree with the overall thesis. Try what you know works when fishing new places. Be patient and fish methodically. Slow down.
He hit it on the head when he said use what you have confidence in.
bubblegum color is the best
I'm in Australia. Never caught a fish on a lure.😆
LOL!
Can you talk about bug soft plastics like stonefly or dragonfly larvae or crickets?
Or tadpole
Honestly have never really tried anything to mimic them
I tried about 6 different green senkos at a mabey 1 acre farm pond and thise fish were on fire for watermelon red or black flake,they did not care for non translucent colors or less natural glitters.
Purple is the only color you need
I live in Delaware. And only throw black with blue flakes, white, green pumpkin with red. And green pumpkin purple
These would be my choices also - Central Oh
Informative video. In Florida what time of year would you recommend fishing The Judge?
Color doesn’t matter it only waters in Cristal clear water for salt water fishing mainly and cheap luster work just as well as expensive lures
I can catch a lot of bass. A LOT in FL. Unless I put on a jig. Then ZIP.
Where is the neon green or yellow or pink colors you talk about!? 🤣I have learned it is better to have 5 different glitter colors with the same base instead of 5 different base colors with the same glitter. Cheaper to buy bulk packs of baits like the yum dingers.
white, black and dark green flake for canada musky.
can you do a similiar video but for the target species Perch or Zander?
I don’t really do any perch fishing!
I agree that the glitter detail doesn't matter, and what you are saying is true for bass; but this is not universal truth when it comes to fishes vision. I know bass fisherman forget that trout fishing is a thing but it is, and they do have good vision.
Honestly anything that’s a sexy Shad color works all the time for me
But if you aren't confident (believe in the lure) its really hard to go want to throw it all day. And if you get a horrible day out of it you really will never want to throw that again. So yeah I do like to try different stuff sometimes its the shape, sometimes its the action, and sometimes its the color. But if I think it looks really like what a fish would want, I am almost certainly going to fish it longer and probably harder thinking it has to work and generally it will produce because I believed in it and put the work in.
That is very true
I agree with your final assertion here- we shouldn't buy multiple shapes and colors of the same plastics. That said- I disagree with your very generalized assertion that you never need a certain size or color, or both- to get bit. That's just not true in my experience. I have seen multiple days where they would only bite a certain color or size, and if it's really tough- days where they were sensitive to both color and size. That said- there are so many different sizes and colors and baits on the market- to think you're going to buy enough of them that you'll just happen to have the exact thing they want- kind of silly. You'd have to take an extra boat to store it all. Fishing is about making your best guess, based on everything from whether, time of year, to past experience on whatever body of water you're fishing, and then hoping you guessed close enough that out of all the stuff you did bring, you have something that will work.
I always assumed that fish really only see in black and white. I try to match the hatch but stay away from the colors Mostly.
Only pink senko does it for me on my lake might be just me as well
Yamamoto says it all
What ever the popular trend is is what EVERYONE wants !
Berkley blue fleck all you need in Texas
If you are hammering the fish you still need more than one bag. A good smallmouth strike basically destroys the senco. Its like a smoking habbit. One dollar a fish. HAHA. Worth it. But yeah four colors is all you need. But you need multiple bags of each if your actually catching fish.
Isn’t that the truth!
Honestly, if there’s a guy covered in fishing company logos telling you “you need this” you probably don’t need it.
Culprit baits #1
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Great video, but I have caught fish on bubble gum pink color when no other color worked and out fished all my buddies that day ... just saying.