Look at each companies color and you will see something different. Some junebug colors look a little blue, some have a little red-purple tint. Dark...light... All good. Get your own color and stick with it instead of trying to match all the other ones out there.
This has to be the most fascinating part of working with plastic. I still have some plastic that I ordered early on from a source other than Caney and just plain don't care for the stuff. Its little things about the stuff that irk me. I use this stuff in smaller amounts, like 4 oz, to play the color game. Once a color is developed I use the GOOD stuff from Caney.
I'll study color pictures of baits and make notes about what I think they consist of. I may have notes tied together from four or five pictoral sources to develope a color of my own. One things is for certain, when a color suits you, you'll know it right away.
Junebug has always been one of my favorite base colors simply because I like the smokey purple or bluish undertones in the transparent plastic. I use a junebug colorant in a recipe for making stock colors to sell at a bait shop or two. I carry a few of those baits myself, but trust me, once you get to digging into junebug you'll find a million ways to tweek it and come up with yet another personal eye opener.
I do mostly smaller baits, crappie sized stuff. If you make any of these baits yourself, try using variations of junebug as a back color with anything from clear to pearl for a belly color. With some hi lites and glitter you can make smelt and shad colored baits that are really true-to-life after some eyes are tossed on.
