What is the best color soft plastic lure/ worm to use with a red hook?
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I’ve heard before that red hooks work pretty well when bass fishing…something about it makes the lure/ worm look like its bleeding. My question is what is the best color to use with this hook. Does it even matter. I use a Texas rig on a size 3 round bend Gamakatsu hook usually. I think I’ve seen tv shows where the pro uses a light colored lure like chartreuse. Any help will do…thanks.
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I’ve always had really good luck with the purple worm that’s sportin’ the long, bright red, curly type tail, seems to be consistently deadly on bass regardless of conditions.
I often use the red wide gap worm hooks for bass with a Zoom Super Fluke in the Watermelon Seed color without any weights. I have had more luck with this combination than anything else. Make sure to get the “Super Flukes” instead of the regular flukes as the super flukes are bigger. The small flukes are too small and are not heavy enough for me to be able to cast very far. Rig it weedless style with the point of the hook tucked in the bottom the fluke. When you cast out, let it sit for a while to give it time to sink. I just retrieve it very slow and steady, but some choose to pop the rod sometimes to make it dart from side to side. With a slow retrieve, you will usually feel the bass tug on it, but sometimes it is more of a suttle approach so you have to feel it out. Below is a link to the Super Flukes in Cabela’s.
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp;jsessionid=MH1VZFQ4QELIBLAQBBLCCONMCAEFAIWE?id=0023182115887a&type=product&cmCat=froogle&cm_ven=data_feed&cm_cat=froogle&cm_pla=0290201&cm_ite=0023182115887a&_requestid=23742
I do all my bass fishing with plastic worms.
I think the red hook / red eye of lure is purely a marketing gimmick with little merrit. If you fish good locations you’re going to catch a lot of fish on a lot of different lures. If you’re on a lake with few fish, then you’re going to struggle with a lot of lures. It’s more about the right depth and presentation than it is about color.
The most important aspect of color is simply light vs dark colors. The general rule of thumb is lighter colors for clear water, darker colors for murky water.
In general, I don’t like light colors in soft plastics (such as pumpkinseed) unless I’m in crystal clear streams. I’ll use dark colors with a lot of success in clear lakes – and likewise you’ll have success in murky water as well. I don’t see a point in buying a whole bunch of colors when a few colors will do everything for you.
I like black with green firetail and red shad / tequila sunrise best. But I will also throw electric purple (sparkles) or as the other suggestion said – blue with a pink/red firetail
RED SHAD WORKS THE BEST FOR ME IN LAKES AND PONDS!!
This is a pretty tough one because some will swear by the red hook and others, like myself would say it’s all gimmick. If you understand the color spectrum under the water, Red doesn’t really dissapear, it turns gray-black after a few feet. The idea behind the red hook is that it’s supposed to be used for top water applications or within the first 3 feet in the water column. This is true to some degree but water clarity does play a major role here. Crystal clear water and you can see the red in the hook until it hits bottom. Tainted water and it’s just a few feet. This in combination of a lure will make it look like the bait is flaring it’s gills…a sign of distress or feeding, not bleeding. This is supposed to provoke an insticnt in the fish to attack involuntarilly. Yeah…anyways, You can use these hooks with any lure color you can dream up. They are supposed to be better with top water and down to 3 feet or so but like I said, water clarity is the key.
watermelon red is one of the best bass and pickrel colors it almost never disapoints me
ive never noticed any diffrence in the way fish react to diffrent color hooks
ps if you live in eastern CT chartreuse is good on pachhaug