You can only use one colour of lure (hard, soft, surface, metal etc.) for all your bass fishing for evermore - what's it going to be?

Please take this blog post as it’s meant to be - a bit of fun, I know I have asked it before, and no, it’s not research on my part! Nope, the first colour I always ask for when Mads at Savage Gear and I are working on lures is white, whether it’s sample lures or lures we are taking to market and deciding on the colour choices. My biggest ever bass came on a white lure, one of the biggest bass I know of came on a white lure, and the biggest bass I have seen caught at night came on a white lure. Yep, my answer to this admittedly pointless question is white. Bright sunshine, murky water, night time, surf, I can’t think of a bass fishing situation where I haven’t got at least a couple of white lures in one of my two lure boxes I carry with me……………..

I asked the exact same question on Facebook the other day and I got some interesting replies. There is nothing remotely scientific going on here as you can tell, indeed one bass fishing session something happens and I come away thinking that the colour of whatever lure or lures I used is vitally important - but then the next session and I come away thinking that the colour of the lure really doesn’t matter very much at all. Go figure I guess, but if you have been into this addiction that is lure fishing for bass for any length of time then I guess you have at least one go-to lure colour that you feel extra confident about. If you tortured me into promising to use only one lure colour for bass for the rest of my fishing days then for me it’s white, but how about you?

The one thing you can obviously never know is whether a different lure colour would have worked better or worse when you hook a fish. Plenty of experts will put forth plenty of theories, but in my mind they can only ever be that - theories. We are trying to outwit creatures which I believe are behaving purely on instinct, whereas we as human beings are capable of logical and informed thought apparently! Perhaps a bass or a GT does actually swim around thinking about the new iPhone or whether anything in the sea has much of a chance with us around to take them all, but I doubt it. How about those times though when you aren’t catching and you change the colour of the (same) lure you have been using and straight away you catch a fish? Yep, the more I fish the more I want to understand, but also the more I fish the more comfortable I am with how much I will never know. We have to be, surely?

Now don’t get me wrong because I like a whole bunch of different lure colours very much, indeed it was my love for the almost ridiculous looking cotton candy colour that got me asking the Savage Gear people for a cotton candy version of the Gravity Stick soft plastics. But white was the first colour I ever asked for when we first started sampling these lures. I have been catching plenty of bass on a cotton candy sample of another lure we have recently brought to market, but it won’t stop me carrying the white colour with me because I feel so confident when I clip it on.

And I guess that one word is what so much of this is all about - confidence. I have enough history with white bass lures to feel that I am at least fishing with a colour of lure - if colour makes any difference of course - that has caught me plenty of bass before. I could list a bunch more colours that also give me a lot of confidence, but perhaps of more importance to my development as an angler is me giving more water time to those lure colours which for whatever reason I don’t feel particularly confident with. Dark coloured lures in murky water for example which I started messing around more with earlier this year and caught a few fish and gained more confidence. I have had plenty of bass at night on the Black Pearl colour Gravity Sticks, but I still haven’t really cracked the “big full moon shining on the water at night” thing on the confidence front. I can tell you one thing though - the new all “Pearl White” colour IMA Hound 125F Glide which you can see in my hand above is coming with me when I head out fishing just after putting this blog post up. I haven’t even fished with it but when I first clip it on I will be feeling about as confident as can be. One of my go-to hard lures in my go-to colour. I can’t go wrong, surely! Can I ask for a refund if I blank?! You all have a good weekend.

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