What plastic color is your favorite?

[ctom]

Or maybe I should ask "what color or combination color is your most productive or your absolute go-to?

For me its pretty basic: purple/chartreuse tail or junebug/chartreuse tail. They both do me good in equal measure and I'll fish both interchangeably with the same degree of confidence. Both are fished on a purple head color with a bit of blue micro-glitter or a plain un-painted head. Not at all fussy on the head whether painted or un-painted. The next best plastic color in line would be a clear plastic stuffed with PartyCrasher glitter finished with a chartreuse tail.

For years my plastics and jig boxes looked like rainbows with all the colors in there but today things are pretty basic keeping most everything in the colors mentioned here. Yes, I have a box of heads in different colors that comes along and yes I have some other color combos in the plastic division but really I haven't used anything from either of these boxes in years.

Right now my junebug plastic is whipped up 4 ounces of Essential plastic and using 8-10 drops of the Essential  junebug colorant with a couple three drops of Essential black added. I toss in a chunk of UV enhancer powder and when the plastic is at 320 degrees I whip in a load of .015 green glitter,. Lots of glitter. This makes a junebug that is a bit darker than the traditional smokey purple, but it's what works for me. The fish love it.

My chartreuse is X2 chartreuse colorant along with a couple, maybe 4 drops, of green chartreuse X2 and a healthy dose of blue hi lite. Lastly I stir in a shot of uv powder just prior to cooking. Both of the latter ingredients really super charge any chartreuse. The Essential chartreuse is a great colorant in lieu of the X2 colorant and the Essential  colorant does not hard pack.

Right now I pretty much start the fishing day with either the purple or junebug with chartreuse tails. What do you use in confidence?

[DF]

 For bass I use mostly natural colors with some shade green being the most used. For jig heads It's the same story with green and brown getting the most work.

[Les Young]

Green pumpkin, junebug are by far my most used colors. I also use redbug, plum apple  & watermelon red in big worms & occasionally a baby brush hog too.  Jig trailers for silicone jigs are black/blue, rootbeer pepper green, sapphire blue & green pumpkin. Hair jigs are ruby red for black/red & for olive/ orange it's either  plain old green pumpkin or I use  a little chartreuse or orange dye on the tails. I do make the basic colors  like green pumpkin & junebug sometimes  for bright moonlight  in summer with  heavy red glitter  added on baby brush hogs, super hogs & tubes.

[Muskygary]

For worms, and craws it's green pumpkin. Big worms it's plum. Any bait that resembles a minnow it's pearl white. Very basic but it gets the job done.

[Lamar]

   Mine is no secret. CC Green and purple flake. I also use a lot of Watermelon Brown. In Ohio we have muddy water a lot then it's black and blue.

[basscatlildave]

JuneBug and Green Pumpkin and I love to add red flake to it.

[Canga~]

while i use unpainted jigheads for everything, my plastics box is a rainbow, i have a few that are my go to colors (black/gold, black/white pearl, green pumpkin/white pearl, black/purple highlight, a special "perch" thats all mine and staying that way!) it really depends on the body of water im fishing, i find that certain places and even certain days on the same body of water they want something different.

for instance the other nightevery bite i had (caught 17 bass) and every on of them wanted a black/gold angling ai 3.75" hammer. i threw other baits, and the same bait in other colors and never had a bite, throw the black and gold and it was game on. other times they will eat whatever i throw, so for me it depends on the day!