Lure colours, which colours do fish see more prodominantley and what colours are your favourates?

I have my own opinion on this subject but will reserve it to see how the post goes.

I am intersted to see what,

  1. type of lure is your favourate ( the one that catches more species than any other) and why, apart from twisties.
  2. what colour do you prefer.
  3. modifications you have made to the lure or any other lures.

and most of all in your opinion which colours do fish see more prodominantley, for example one of the last colours we see is green.


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healthy debate as to whether fish actually see colour....

Tue, 2010-01-19 11:15

but science is somewhat limited here (well from my days at uni or it may have been all the beer...)

silhouette would be first then the electrical currents generated by nervous/paniced fish (hence the lateral line on many fish species to pick up the electrical current).

favourite lure depends (on target spcies) but something that caters to the above. So silhouette of the baitfish (match the hatch) and something that produces vibration (rattle/roll/splash) .

So trolling I use halco alot, bream would be a luckycraft/atomic/maria/bassday. But most lures would be baitfish style. my preference varies greatly as i target many species of fish on lures.

Colour...well.... ocean I like somethng with red up front as a paniced/stressed fish will flare its gills hence gills are red(redhead)....pilchard/ fusiler/YFT/kingbrown. But dark days dark colour then sunny days flashy colour

modifcations are wire trace if appliable, remove a treble to balance a lure (so make a bream lure suspend instead of sink) and split shot to sink a lure......

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well tell me what fish it is

Tue, 2010-01-19 11:22

well tell me what fish it is after and ill help you out more. and twisty are one of my favourites cause they work so well!

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Not looking for help.

Tue, 2010-01-19 11:30

As said before I have my own opinion on the subject.

I am intersted to see how different lures and colours are doing, (the best all rounder).

The reason I asked for no twisties is that I already know that it is the best all rounder out there.

The quest is to find the runner up.

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Lures and colour

Tue, 2010-01-19 12:20

I thought the debate had been resolved that fish do see colour.   Here is a lengthy but fascinating article called Does Colour Matter? with regard to lures etc. 

The guy who wrote the article Piotr Piskorski owns Salmo Lures, no 2 behind Rapala.

http://www.salmo.com.pl/page.php?id=351

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Good read

Tue, 2010-01-19 12:42

Very interesting, the spectrum sort of puts things in more perspective for me.

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When living up in Arnhemland

Tue, 2010-01-19 12:25

When living up in Arnhemland on Elcho Island last year my favourite alround lure was a gold rapala barra magnum lure. It caught everything. One day in particular we had 4 lures out trolling for macks, red head, blue mackeral, green, and the gold one, 5 macks to the gold lure and no touches on the others. Rigged up another gold one on one of the other rods and within 1 min was hooked up and snapped off unfortunately. Also caught plenty of barra on these lures.

2nd go to lure was a small deep diving RMG in gold also....

 Gold is good! :)

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Lures

Tue, 2010-01-19 12:43

In Exmouth while Trolling For Macs and Tuna, the Red and white Halco Shallow Divers.  I also have a rapala red and white with silver flecks on it, and a metal bib, but this lure has never swam properly(Any Advice on this?). For Coral Trout on troll The Halco or maybe RMG Deep Diver in Pink and silver with black tiger stripes.  My first one came prerigged with 3 x trebles.  Works great until the water motion makes the second treble brush the side of the lure creating a hole, making the lure sink.  I patched it up with fibreglass and removed that middle treble, its still going strong a few years later. 

I would like to see how the rapala X-Rap deep divers go up there though. 

In perth about the only thing I have caught on a lure is Herring, as for favorites Twistys, Raiders and the like.  Though for favorite, I would have to say a small treble with a green Wall Plug (Color probably doesnt matter, but they fit nice over the shank of the treble)  These go well trolling near the rockwalls and over the weedbanks, man thinking about these little lures takes me back to my childhood, trolling/catching herring from small sailcraft is pretty close to the definition of multitasking.

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I think they see colour

Tue, 2010-01-19 13:30

but not necessarily in the same way we see colour. Different fish I think will be more sensitive to different colours and even different light spectrums (rather than the full "light" specturm) rendering what we see and what they see completely different. I am a firm proponent that the lure action and its silhouette/contrast is more important than the colour perse. Catching fish at night on lure (particularly surface lures) is testament to this in many ways.

 

But contrary to that, I have a million different colours of lures........Tongue out

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Favourate lure

Tue, 2010-01-19 13:34

Okay but what is your favourate lure and colour?

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It will change Frank

Tue, 2010-01-19 13:39

depending on what fish I am chasing and where!

 

My tailor spot for instance, I slay the pig on a 5" paddle tail plastic, colour not important. Fishing for them down south, we troll Halco Scorpion 52's and 68's as they wont take the soft plastics, and vice versa.

 

It's too simplistic to say what is my favourite lure and colour. But if I was stuck to one colour and one colour only it would probably be a gold type colour.

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I tend to like Halco deep

Tue, 2010-01-19 15:46

I tend to like Halco deep divers 2-7 meters for mackeral and tuna etc up around Gnarloo.  The green black and orange tiger stripe one works well as does the silver and blue number.  Funny last time up there these were the only two colours that got fish or hit.  We were also trolling the all time fav red and white but it never got touched.

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what is your favorite colour

Tue, 2010-01-19 15:54

what is your favorite colour ice cream.hahahaha

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Lure colour

Tue, 2010-01-19 21:18

I find it strange that when you start losing your sight the last spectrum you see is green.

Years ago I used to target Bonito on the moles. When fishing for them I noticed that a bomber lure in green and yellow was the deadliest thing swimming for them. So I started using them and tripled my catch whilst others stuck with repala in orange as I once did.

Then a fews years ago an old fisho (a really good mate around 60 now) said to me that in his opinion fish see green over any other colour.

I listened but probably didn't take it on.

A few years later I was in Kalbarri and the Mackies were on. We were doing okay until I threw on a 190 DD in green and yellow. Lost the lure so decided to go to the tackle store, no green and yellow lures. The bloke tells us they sold out in one day.

In my opinion fish do see green and yellow and my next choice gold more predominantly than any other colour.

Look at the colour chart at the top and see where these colours lie, is this a coincidence?

 

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but everyone is different!

Tue, 2010-01-19 22:31

my mate swears black and blue that purple is the best colour for mackies and wont use anything else. So who is right - you or him?

 

I think all colours work, but its a confidence thing, once you catch fish X with a colour then you tend to stick to it regardless of any valid reason other than "I caught a X on it". A lot of the time there might be a better colour or lure action, but your confidence in lure x oftens stops you trying new things (unless you are in a slump).

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True

Tue, 2010-01-19 22:43

Thats why I have asked the question. I want to see what most peoples favourate colours are to make a judgement. I am not saying I am right or wrong, I am sharing a view I have and am interested in others.