Do “bleeding baits” help/make any real difference?
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So, when fishing for game fish, bass walleye, pike ect, do baits that appear to be bleeding catch more fish?
Shad rap with blood spots
Tube bait with red strands
chatterbait with red spots on white hairs as apposed to charteruse.
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I honestly think lure manufactures add the small details like blood to please the fisherman more than the fish. Think about it, there’s only a few seconds a fish either strikes or doesn’t.
I think they are put on the lure to boost the confidence of the angler leading him to believe the bass will hit a lure with a bleeding paint job.
Supposedly red is the first color to disappear in the light spectrum under water. Is it true? I don’t know but I really don’t think the blood coloring makes a difference.
Ahhh! The fishing industries’ “placebo” No, on artificial baits, it makes no difference. It is just another way of artificial bait manufacturers to over emphasize what in the live bait world works only on frenzied schooling predators.
yes and no
they are used to sometimes hide imperfections in our presentations like a bass will see this shad rap swimming and see the hooks wobbling witch looks like weed or somtin else wich makes them uninterested but if you switch to red hooks or dressed hooks then it will look more like a blood trail or a tail and in clear water when i use black hooks or brown ones for my senkos sometime they see the hook and still wont bite so switching to red hooks may make it look like blood or guts coming out of the senko i have also used red thread to stick into softbaits to immitate blood and it has increased bites for me but on some days it just works like any other lure so the real answer is yes they can make a big diffrence and no sometimes it dosnt
“Bleeding Baits” CAN make a difference; but not in the way, you might think. It is not he ‘bleeding” part that will attract a predaditory fish nor will it encourage them to bite you bait. Rather it is the contrast, caused by the ‘bleeding’ they see. In some conditions, this contrast WILL make a very big difference. As stated earlier, RED is the first color to disappear in water due to the color spectrum wavelength. (somewhere between 5 to 15 ft depending on water clarity). This does not mean that it becomes invisible, just that the color ‘red’ is not seen. It has yet to be proven what ‘shade-of-gray’ fish see in replacement of ‘red’. This same philosophy holds true for all the other colors too.
Pretty lures will always catch more angler than fish! Learn the basics and stick to them. You will catch more.. The “pros” have sponsors, so they have to do a sales job on lures… otherwise they just have no paycheck. – Go Fish!