Colors for bass fishing?

[b-rice]

If it is cloudy what would you use, clear, raining ETC..........

[mharrisatuwg]

Generally the rule is dark baits on dark days and light baits on light days, but I caught a 10lber on a black 8 inch work on a day without a cloud in the sky. I fish mostly soft plastics, and I think that you need a couple baits in five categories. Mostly white, Mostly black, Neutral, Flash, and shock colors.
Mostly white and mostly black explain themselves. Neutral can be tan, translucent, smoke, and amber. Flash colors are the metal colors, silver, gold, copper. Bold or shock colors are the electric greens, oranges, chartreuse, yellow, pink, and fire tiger. If you have a couple baits in each color you can follow the basic rules, and if they don' t work you can just go through the five color groups chances are you will find what the fish are looking for. Don' t forget scent and sound the other important factors. Hope this helps some.

[basserman]

brice, mharris gave you some ideas. My color selection will also depend on water color (clarity) alot. But, give me a black/blue jig n pig anywhere, cloudy or not.

[mharrisatuwg]

Basserman is definitely right. Water clarity is very important. When It is stained or murky I use either black or some of the shock colors. If the water is clear I use a more lifelike color combinations. There are some great articles on the web, and I subscibe to Bassin' magazine, which has some great tips in it. Good luck.

[mauser06]

seems like yellow always produces for me....but i will take this post and maybe become a better bass fishermen...thanx...i know any day i fished this big creek smallies would KILL my yellow rooster tail....then i started using yellow in my ponds and lakes i fish and it worked there too......white works too but if the lure is a small curly tail jig like i like to use for small farm pong bass on light tackle white will get hits from panfish...yellw rarely does for some reason....but im not a big bass fisher i dont read much on it and dont get overly fancy for it....

[Wannabe Redneck]

for dark days depending on the time of year I like to use darker colors, but also a firetiger and colors like that work well also but as general rule dark on dark days

[FirstBow]

Dark water, dark lure, rattles. Clear water light, bright lures no rattles.
Clear days crank or spinners. Cloudy worms, jigs and rattles.
But me WHAT EVER THEY WILL HIT!

[the conservationist]

doesn' t matter on the day,
june-bug,green pumpkin,red shad
only colors you need to catch fish
occassional white trick worm if they' re acting hungry!
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