Deciphering the Color Puzzle – A Pro Panel

by Dan O’Sullivan

Bass fishing is all about decision making. Finding the location of the bait and the bass are two of the more important factors when establishing a pattern on the water.

One of the more confusing decisions can be selecting the color of soft plastic bait you are going to throw. It’s not hard to imagine why either. When you lol at the color charts of the major and minor soft plastic manufacturers, the choices can be downright mind boggling.

It seems there are every shade of the rainbow accounted for, and even some shades that are completely constructed from scratch. Then, when you factor in the potential variances each color can have in the flake department; we might as well throw our hands in the air, close our eyes and guess.

Should I choose the pumpkin with green flake, the green pumpkin with red flake, the black and blue, the motor oil or the scuppernong? Don’t even get me started on handpoured worms, the color variances in those can be three times as many.