Plug Colors Part II

[Skitterpop]

Originally Posted by Canalman

Ok here’s part 2 of my plug color quest…. all input is greatly appreciated

We established on the last thread that these colors are a must….

White/Pink or Wonderbread?
Yellow/White
Black or Blurple (what’s more important?)
Parrot type color
Metroblurple

Now I’d like to hear what you guys have to say about baitfish patterns. Which ones are most important? What gets your eye vs. the fishes eye?

Here are the baitfish I generally try to replicate help me weed a few out or group some together.

Bunker
Peanut Bunker
Sand Eel
Eel
Mackerel (Blue or Green?)
Mullet
Alewive
Blueback Herring
Spent Herring
Shad
Squid

Then we have a few elaborations
Purple Pogie
Chartreuse Sand Eel
Black/Red

We are also currently working on a new soft plastic bait that, if it works will blow you guys away. And I’m working with some coatings experts to bring you the most durable wood plugs on the market. If all goes well. Thanks for all your help. Look for new things to come from Surf Asylum in the coming weeks and months. New lines and colors for 2007 are going to far exceed what we’ve done in the past .

-Dave

After reading this post I sighed and had to have a smoke

With the rubber thing.... love to see an all black weighted internally and pre rigged with two heavy hooks that won`t rust and rubber very durable....maybe 13"?

Another plug color thought ....dark pink metallic as a 4 to 5 ft deep swimmer.

[Clogston29]

I like natural/baitfish colors but more because I just love plugs than because I think that they will work better, love fishing them and just having them. And I agree with luds, the light blue/pink/white is a must have, especially in swimmers and spooks. That's one I'd consider adding to the "must" list, along with white (my must's are white, yellow/white, herring in swimmers, olive in needles, and blurple).

[tlapinski]

Personally, I'm not a huge believer in matching a baitfish exactly. I think they look cool, but when/where I fish it doesn't seem to help to have an exact copy of the color scheme. For example, on the spring herring run that I fish, my best colors are solid black or solid white in swimmers, and yellow/white for poppers. One season I did extremely well on gold foil/black back/orange belly bombers during the herring run, but never since that season. I think if you get something somewhat close, you will do well. Fancy paint jobs do more to sell the plug than to catch the fish. It goes back to my response in the other thread, how you work the plug pays out better than how the plug looks.