Mr. Lamberson

[ctom]

If I may, I'd like to tap your input on river colors and/or combinations that you find "VERY" productive on fall/early winter walleyes and sauger. I have my own preferences but then we both know that people don't always have the same sentiments. If you were fishing a river walleye/sauger tournament in the pool you live on and were limited to three colors/combinations of color, what would they be?

You maybe get a treat for this. 

Thanks in advance Andy.

[andrewlamberson]

Ummm... I'm a "minnow colors" kind of guy with the exception of the chartreuse and orange color:

http://www.obbaits.com/

Last fall I did well on Baby bass or Caney Creek Green over silver smoke.  Sparse large black glitter in the green...sparse small silver glitter in the silver.

White (but it's my confidence color...so it may be more that I have confidence in it ...and fish it most often!)

Watermelon/ red flake ....because I make everything in that color!!!


Did you see my post about pounding the 'gills last weekend drop shotting the 1.75" Fry??? That's been my #1 bluegill and crappie bait so far this year. The other hot plastic was the Thumper Swim Fry ...which I think I ordered from you. That little tail really seemed to call them in! For some reason I only thought of that bait as a cast and retrieve bait...a mistake!

I ordered some of those 3.5" Super Fry's from the OB guys to give them a try...and they worked well enough that I ordered the mold! I was "power drop shotting" them... on the bottom I had the Char/orange Fry on a fairly heavy jig and about a foot above that I had Emerald Shiner (pretty much the colors I described above) on a VMC Spin Shot hook (a BIG one!). FYI...Gander Mountain carries them now and  I think I saw them at the Winona Fleet Farm.

Anyway...the little sauger and walleyes were hitting it like crazy....and the Northern Pike wouldn't leave it alone! I also got a couple smallmouth and a dandy largemouth ...all in 8- 10' of water just off a point and big weed bank. I also caught a "medium" bluegill on the top hook! The bait was about 1/2 the size of the bluegill!  I was fishing back by Merrick State Park along the bank  opposite of the lower campground. If you look on a Google earth map you'll see the end of the campground and the points I was fishing on the opposite bank....and upstream along that 8' break line.

 44° 8'39.50"N     91°44'39.16"W   (select the coordinates then right click and google search them ...and you should get a Google earth map. Click the coordinates and it should take you to the map. You'll see the point and the break line (marked nicely by all the duck weed floating down in the the current seam!!!) across from the campground where the marker is.

Andy

[ctom]

The Thumper is a great bait and I am not just talking crappies. Walleyes and sauger have found their way to my dinner plate via this bait. When we used it late last spring the water was well outside of the preferred temp range for plastics and we still smoked'em. Maybe we can do a week long trade between the 3.75" fry and the thumper. I'm fine with it if you are. We have family in Winona so finding an excuse to get there is no sweat. Lets talk about this in a week or two.

Thank you for your color preferences. I'm big on minnow schemes myself but with the walleye clan a guy has to have some of the less minnow-like-color numbers as well. Fluorescents.....I could never figure out why any fish would hit something in a color NOT found in a natural setting, but then settled on the idea it was something new to them....kind of like the glow in color glow pigments we have today.

The glow stuff comes to mind now that I mention it. Somehow I want to put a strip of red glow along the back of these tube things and then clear coat it. That 3.75" fry will handle that glow stripe easily by hand pouring it. The Thumper will see a red stripe too. Now talk about something they haven't seen before.....

Thanks again for your contribution here....you will be rewarded.