Choosing the Best Color for Bass Lures | What Bass See | Does Color Matter? | Bass Fishing Tips

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LMAO, I am only 4 years behind. I just asked for some science on what bass can see in another of your videos on color selection of soft plastics. I can't believe your subscriber leave you hanging on the like button hits. But good on ya for not begging for them.

I know this an older video but I’m gonna comment anyway. I just recently saw a video on the same subject. Humans have three color receptors red blue green bass, have two red green. So in human terms, the bass are essentially colorblind. There’s a website for colorblind people and there’s a specific kind of color blindness that sees the red green spectrum only, on the website, they have a filter for that and you can put pictures up and apply the filter. It was very interesting you were spot on with the white chartreuse chartreuse does look white to the fish off-white. Specifically white was the brightest color. Orange came out is browngreen pumpkin came out as brown blue came out as green red was red and yellow was yellow. Most everything else was shades of black and gray.

I have recently discovered your content on YouTube and have to say that you give us real information and what I believe to be truthful rather than "you have to have this bait and that bait". I truly believe in the information you provide and will follow your post here and on facebook. Thank you and wish you all the best.

Yes... NICE Content!! rule of thumb... Darker colors in muddy water... lighter as the water clears up. Natural and lighter colors disappear more easily when the water clarity get worse.

Very interesting indeed, makes me want to experiment with some of my crank baits. Thanks for the content !!

Great video man, it is really cool to be able to tap into all your knowledge

Great video

Great video and content as usual. Thanks for sharing this kind of information.

really great insight- thank you!

Good job

Good information on colors and how much they matter compared to what a bass actually sees. Nice job on the video. Tight lines from Rick

Hey Steve excellent video very interesting hey Steve I remember when I first started bass and I would use watermelon worms ( green) and also Steve I use red shad stick baits and I've always had good success on green and red. Good video Steve your bringing me back to my roots and you know what Steve with all these colors that the manufacturer is making we sometimes forget about good color because someone starts catching on another color and then everyone goes out and buy's that color and then finds out that maybe that's not such a great color. Thank you professor Steve for reminding us that you don't need 10 colors. You know what I like for instance with worm fishing red shad , watermelon, and some kind of purple I don't know what it is but I've always had good luck on purple then Steve after doing some homework there's purple in gizzard shad there's light tinges of purple in bluegill so maybe that's the reason. But anyway thanks for all your scientific video they help Alot and give us a different perspective about bass fishing and that's good and you what's another thing I've learned over the years of fishing Steve there is alot more bass than we think there is when we stop at a spot to fish just because you're not getting bit that doesn't mean there not there. Hey Steve you know what I think you have to refine our presentation. God bless you and your family. Ps Steve I'm fascinated by some of these videos you do keep up the good work professor.

An interesting note from the article: Some chartreuse dyes have fluorescence that makes them “whiter than white.” That makes me ask, has anybody toyed with phosphorescent dyes? It seems that would be very effective in deep waters.

We have all had days where one solid color kills them then the bite shuts down. We change colors and, sometimes lures to get it going again. I heard one YouTuber say he was never going to use chartreuse again because of that same study! I say to give the fish what they want; in speed, color size and action. We will never fully understand what is going on in their little brain. Why try? Go with what you know and go fishing!

I do not recall if it was in the late 1970's or early 1980s when Tom Mann the GF of soft plastic worms said it best when he stated: "90% of luer colors catch far more fisherman than fish" or words to that effect For the first 40 years of fishing as an adult I went through fases of gotta have gotta try colors I have over a 100 assorted crankbaits in all kinds of different color schemes and honestly I ended up useing the colors that best mimic the actual pray fish 90% of the time to catch 90% of my fish The ONLY three exception to that was chartreuse and chartreuse and white and firetiger Other than that 90% of my fish get caught on hard and soft plastic baits whos colors closely resemble bluegill, shad, pearch, shiners or chubs I have several 40qt Rubbermaid storage totes full of exotic colored soft plastic worms I haven't used in years My go to colors for soft plastic worms is three different versions of Green pumpkin Three different versions of Watermelon Three different versions of black/blue metallic Redbug Junebug Soft plastic creatures and crayfish its Again same three different color versions of green pumpkin, Watermelon, New last year were two new colors for creature and crayfish I have absolutely no doubt working extremely well They were Okeechobee craw and Tilapia In soft plastic flukes and swimbaits again its the same three different color versions of Watermelon But White Ice/Sight Fish and Ghost Shad work astonishingly well Now as far as soft plastics go Im down to using only 9 different colors As far as hard baits its only colors that imitate baitfish or chartreuse and white or Firetiger I have no explanation for this but I fish three lakes near my home 90% of the time Discovered Chatterbaits four years ago Bought them in White and chartreuse metallic flake , black, greenpumpkin and Watermelon Black blue metallic flake After four years and 100s upon 100s of bass I only fish two colors anymore Black blue metallic flake with a Zoom fluke trailer in Avocado red in the spring from march till certain its peek pre spawn Then from pre spawn that point on white chartreuse metallic flake skirt with a 4" Keitech Easy shiner white Ice swim bait with the tail dipped in chartreuse dye and its belly and sides highlighted with an orange Spike-it marker I Tried multiple other makes and colors of chatterbaits with straight tailed trailers but a 1/4oz-3/8oz chartreuse and white chatterbait with a Keitech Easy Shiner trailer just flat out works so much better than any other chatterbait color I tried and believe me I wanted them to work as I have over $100 in chatterbaits I seldom if ever use It is my absolute belief bass absolutely ARE NOT color blind as many contend and I personally have to to to many times fished an area with one color hard or soft bait of a particular color and caught few to no fish put on the same exact luer and the ONLY difference is color and absolutely murdered the bass this has happened fishing crankbaits spinnerbaits chatterbaits and soft plastics One such example in the extreme was my friend and I fishing post spawn Kankakee river smallmouth at the dam in DT Kankakee we were fishing absolutely identical spin casting rods and reels exact same fishing line except he was fishing with a black and silver #9 sinking Reapala I was fishing a #9 black and gold sinking Rapala he was catching a smallie every 4th or 5th cast I couldn't BUY a bite We swithced setups FIRST cast I caught a smallmouth caught four more in 25 casts my friend caught nothing he understandably said time to swith back I had a #11 black and silver Rapala on me and yes caught a few smallies but nothing like my friend was waded back to shore went to my truck hot all three of my #9 black and silver sinking Rapalas and had a killer good day. Had nearly identical experiences fishing a black and yellow spinnerbait got nothing same spinnerbait in white chartreuse killed the bass same with using a greenpumpkin chatterbait got zip switched to a white chartreuse chatterbait again did great.

You can use any color you want ....as long as it's black!!!

If I had three colors to choose and only three red white and black. If I had one color white.

Well I've caught dozens of smallmouth on my white plopper in the last few weeks...but my natural bluegill color has only caught 2. Same with my silver and black...only a couple. Contrast has nothing to do with it. Plus you said a lot of nothing and took a long time to say it.