I’d sure love an inkling as to why bass seem to like pink lures in deeper and often murkier water

There’s a spot I have started fishing over the last couple of years. I have only ever seen one of three of us down there and the water is somewhat deeper than I might usually fish for bass. It’s around the mouth of an estuary so the water clarity can be very up and down with freshwater runoff in the system, plus the bigger tides seem to colour it up more as well. I am guessing that once you start bumping the bottom in what is often a strong run of current, you start to lose the influence of the freshwater……………

We’re not talking deep deep, but when I let my lures hit the bottom and start my retrieve it sure feels deeper than anywhere I can recall specifically targeting bass. When you have got no wind and you can really feel what is going on, it feels like there are patches of mud and perhaps some gravel or rock out there as well. At times we have had some good bass fishing and the other day I had a couple of okay bass out of there before the water got really dirty again with all that rain. Or was it the shift in wind direction and tide sizes which quietened the fishing down again?

What is really interesting to me is how a pink coloured lure seems to outfish other lure colours at this spot. I obviously can’t prove it and you can only catch on the lure you are actually fishing with, but I have seen it enough times now if there are a couple of us fishing how a pink lure tends to catch more fish and/or get more hits. I am mostly fishing with the Savage Gear Sandeel V2 Weedless and the Savage Minnow Weedless in the various different sizes depending on how fast the current is running and how I want to retrieve the lure. I will generally let the lure hit the bottom and then do what I think needs to be done to my lure. I want to use these specific lures because I trust them so much, but you could of course also use something like the Fiiish Black Minnow etc.

I can’t see what a fish sees and as much as I’d like to I can’t think like a fish, but I’d sure love to know what it is about a lure colour which to me looks almost too garish and nothing like what a bass might eat. I have had bass on different lure colours at this spot I might add, indeed I have had a few very good sessions using the cotton candy colour versions of the lures I described above - more so when the water is clearer and when the sun is shining bright - but pink has by hook or by crook become the default lure colour I turn to when I am fishing at this spot. And yes, I know that means I am likely to catch more on pink if I am fishing with pink, but you tend to go with what you feel confident with do you not? (I have loved cotton candy lures ever since I got my first ever IMA Komomo SF-125 hard lure a few years ago now, and it slayed for me from day one in brighter conditions especially).

Pollack fishing aside I don’t have a heap of bass related experience with using pink lures away from this particular spot, but a few times now I have used the confidence this fishing has given me to experiment a bit more with pink lures in different situations. I have caught fish but I haven’t seen a noticeable difference in catch rates away from that deeper and often murkier water. I am always going to have far more questions about fishing than I will ever have answers, but I’d sure love to at least have a bit of an inkling why I am seeing what I have described. We’ve all got various theories and we can speculate forever, but the simple and unavoidable fact is that we will never really know………………..

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