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Soft Plastic Bait Making => Soft Plastic and Plastic Baits - How To??? => Topic started by: 412BaitCo on 09/06/12 06:09 UTC
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It seems a lot of the different companies make their trout baits in bright colors anyone have a favorite color for Trout? I mostly fish for stocked rainbows.
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Around this area anything with orange in it seems to be a great trout bait. I fish lake trout and salmon in Lake Superior where my go-to baits all share gold and orange color pattern. I fish trout in our SE minnesota streams using Original Rapalas with an orange back over a gold belly. I have a stocked lake less than a mile from me in town where I do my winter jigging for trout and gold Kastmasters and Swedish Pimples with a stripe of orange tape on them reign supreme.
In all instances the water is super clear. Water color and staining can change the colors but just about everyone I know that fishes with me in these locations uses a gold/orange color pattern. Since salmon eggs are that bright orange and plenty of people use them in the lake near home to get trout I am going to go out on a limb and say that orange has a big part in their productivity. Even those jars of PowerBait trout dough seems to be used more in orange than any other color.
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I've always seemed to have the best luck with orange and chartruse as well. Thanks for the input as always!
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A friend had some serious good luck during the winter season on stream trout last year using the green ones in this picture...
(http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss184/crappietomtackle/IMG_0352-1.jpg)
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Love that last color. After reading over your post again when you say the bright orange salmon egg color do you mean that bright almost red standard salmon egg color?
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Not sure if its true, but I was told they were fed corn at the hatcheries and thats why yellow works well.
....Bill
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Know you all are talking about a different kind of Trout but just so happens I poured these this morning for Speckled Trout.
(http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o553/FCMX/Fish%20Baits/photo1.jpg?t=1346943873)
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Looks like I'll be placing an order. I'm a bass guy so I don't have a lot of bright stuff.
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(http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/o553/FCMX/Fish%20Baits/photo1.jpg?t=1346943873)
Nice!!! Is that orange X2?
Jim
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Awesome looking baits!
Jason
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Hey Jason is an X2 yellow in the near future?
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Yes. Here are the colors that will be released hopefully before the end of the month.
Sweet Potato
Yellow
Green Grass
Baby Bass
Caney Creek Green
Emerald Green
Plum
June Bug
Tomato
Blue Fleck 1
Blue Fleck 2
Midnight Blue
Motor Oil
Silver Smoke
Red Shad
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Whoooo hooo :D
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Yes Jim its about 10 drops of Flo. Orange to 6 oz.
One thing I have noticed is if it will catch a Trout it will also catch a Crappie. May just be because
I am throwing it but bright colors do work on both.
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All non-bleed????
PS Tried to add some X2 orange but it is not in the list anymore. Or was it ever there? :D
Jim
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Just looked it is in the X2 list. All the flour. colors are listed togather.
Think I have all of them ;D
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All non-bleed????
PS Tried to add some X2 orange but it is not in the list anymore. Or was it ever there? :D
Jim
X2 Fluorescent Orange. It's pretty versatile as far as mixing with other colors to change it. We will add an additional orange if requested in the future.
Jason
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Trout fishing is the main reason i started making my own baits.. Here are the basic colors that we fish here in So Cal. (troutworms, jigs, and the small fry)
Black w/violet highlights
Berkly Fl. Orange
Bubble Gum
Pearl White
Natural Worm
Fighting Frog(Dark Green/Light Green) comb0
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Small fry in 1.75 or the 2.25?
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Small fry in 1.75 or the 2.25?
1.75