Does Color Matter When Fishing Big Swimbaits? 

I feel like there is a fish for every profile and color, just gotta get the right one in the right place at the right time. Great breakdown, great channel ✌️🐠

I like white, gold, and silver colors.

Good advice & makes sense to me, presentation & timing more important than anything else next to profile definitely like the channel & u have some awesome catches. I've only been fishing glide baits about yr n half nothing bigger the 7 inches till this year. Have had good luck with medium/ smaller ones, haven't spent enough time with my big glider yet. Working on it though...

Completely agree with you. I mostly fish a muddy water reservoir in Texas. I used to get caught up on throwing white baits or something that stood out, but I’ve had a lot more success learning the lake and knowing where the fish are and the color of the bait isn’t a big factor as long as you know where they are and what they are doing.

Here in CA, same concept you said applies. Timing is the most important.

Excellent. For myself it's #1 LOCATION #2 TIMING #3 PRESENTATION #4 COLOR

Bro swfishing shouted you out now I've gone down the big swimbait rabbit hole lol, I gotta come check the store out and have you help me get some fire, love the vids!

Color matters, because if you dont have confidence in a color you won't fish it properly, i think its just that, the bass would hit a full red deps 250 too. I think it's all about profile and action of the bait, and obviously timing (time of the year, of the day)

Loving the channel bro! Amazing content. Dope information. Like I appreciate it so much that it’s free! Looking forward to more of these kind of videos and some on the water videos.

Even when trying to match the color and pattern as accurately as possible, I always consider two basic parameters regarding color values. In relation to light conditions and water clarity, the first is light vs.dark. In relation to contrast, the second is reflectivity vs. , over any tonal variants. Light, for bright skies. Dark, for cloudy or low light conditions. Reflective, to add flash vs. non-reflective, for silhouetting.

Thanks for your informational vids. I agree with you. Color is for catching fishermen! Followed your advice for throwing the K-9 last weekend and hooked up with a couple nice ones. Respect!

Geoff I’m just getting started so I’m using what I see other people use but I feel like my limitations now are both where and when I fish it. More importantly though is how I work it. I would love to see a split-screen full view/chesty of how you work individual baits - reel speed, pops/twitches etc…

I agree....but, At my local lake, it matters... The water is Crystal clear and they'll only hit something that looks like a trout. They stock trout in there so that's the main forage. Loving the videos man, keep it up.

Got yourself a subscriber. I’m new to big swim baits & really liked your presentation. I do a lot of bank fishing in the valley

Generally I agree, however, here in New York I feel like the perch color does have a bit more drawing power. There’s just perch everywhere around me. That comes mostly from fishing the magdraft. The perch just seems to be more of a fish finder than the white back, or Pearl. Most of the time I feel like the fish that bit probably would have bit any color. I’ve just had the perch magdraft draw fish out from cover more often than the other colors. Then I can throw back in with a Texas rig or senko. Might just be that I have more confidence in the color though. Feel like confidence in a bait can matter as much as color at times too.

Interesting vid. I 100% agree. I picked my favorite color deps 250 and I throw it every time I go fishing sun up to sun down. Never change baits. I think I can learn my body of water and that bait the best if I keep that variable the same. If I’m changing colors/ baits every time I go I won’t know if it was the bait or the color or the fish that caused them to bite.

Profile to me is #1. Flash #2 To make a point my buddy was like use this surface popper color and this translucency and this big eyed one he's all techno about it. So to make a point I picked up a stick, broke it to about 4", shaved a flat face, gouged a hole in the nose and cut a narrower tail end in like 3 mins with my knife, stabbed my 4/0 worm hook into it's body about 2/3 toward the tail to give it a tail heavy end and started using it as like a PopR. LOL. It was hit as much as any other popper we had. I don't take credit for the idea of just a broken stick popper. I saw this fishing line hanging from a tree one year and near the end a piece of the debarked tree branch about 2 inches long 3/8 in in dia. was hanging from the end and when the tide would get to around 2-2.5ft high it put that little piece of branch touching the water or a few inches above and the wind would move it around and little bass would try and snatch it in and even out of the water even. Now instead of my popper box with 25 different poppers I only take a small plastic box with 2 of each size in case I lose one. Small, med, large- solid and flashy. And that's it will all my lures. I don't care if they're big spitters, gurglers ect. Pretty much every popper if worked to do those things will do them.

Nice grind lately !!! Keep them coming

Been watching you on your work channel and found your channel and sub’ed on it and watching all your videos playing catch up awesome videos keep them up brother

G, thank you thank you thank you! Brother, you keep it up! You are low key one of the people I look up to, lol.

Bro I totally agree with you some days I feel like I can throw any color even if it was bright pink it would absolutely work by then some days I truly honestly feel like they can be a little finicky but 90% of me agrees with you but man keep up the work the count it when it comes to swim bait or Glide bait videos I'm always going to your vids first you're like a guru LOL

I believe color does play in one category and that is the fish has to see your bait. White is a great color do to the fish can hone in on your bait.

Just what I needed. Thanks 🙏🏽

Definitely, the fish in my body of water don’t eat shad presentations nearly as much as bluegills or trout

Great info as always thx my dude!! 😎🤘

Great Video Man... I have to learn my lake better..it would seem.... Respect Every time..

Useful video as always. Keep it up 👍

Color catch angler, profile catch fish. But I'm guilty of being super picky on color, simply 'cause I like one.

Great info, luv the vid !!!!

Let's go fish pleasant this weekend

Profile and action beats anything. I do think contrast matters, too, but actual color not so much.

Great Vid" Thanks 4 posting!

Have to agree with you again my brother!!! Cheers!! :))

I think people go crazy on color purely if your dropping up wards of a days pay on bait. They want the bait in the color their going to have the most confidence in. Once you get some confidence your going to start experimenting with colors. I swimbait a ton of ponds especially at night. I found I can get bit on ganterel in black picaruca when it seems like nothing else works. I can't even explain it in the Northeast. But I don't argue if the fish are choking it I run with it

I don't think color makes the difference between getting bit or not getting bit- thank god, we would never find bass. Think about it- you would not only have to have the right bait and be doing the right retrieve at the right depth- it would also have to be the right color- how often would you get lucky enough to line all those variables up correctly and get bit? Very rarely- so I'm glad they're not quiet that picky. That said- I do think once you've found the bass it's worth experimenting with the color to see if you can turn a few bites into a few more. If they're short striking or swiping at it, it's worth adjusting the color- and sometimes it does make a difference in that respect. That's why when I'm fishing cranks or jerk baits I'll use a clip generally speaking- at least until I figure out what color and size they really want. Then I'll usually cut it off and tie to the bait. But yeah if I'm throwing a worm or something and don't get bit, I'm not going to try a different color- it just doesn't make that kind of difference usually.

Great video. Probably threw a turd in a lot of people's punchbowl, but that's the way it is. Profile all day every day!!!

Anything over 10” I have seen color matter, under 10” I agree, translucent vs solid color and profile matters more than actual color.

What do you think about fishing with the nude black deps 250? I fish in clear water and really green water.

I disagree to an extent on topwater. Things like a spook do sit above the water, but some baits do sit subsurface. I've fished my rats in all colors for more time than I care to admit and I am not a fan of natural colors, they just don't get bit as much as blue/chartreuse. Bass also don't come straight up all the time. Fishing around cover, they usually dart under the bait from the side, then make their strike to the top. Not a straight line for the bait. Color's have really affected my night time topwater strikes substantially and i've tried a lot of different patterns.

I’d say profile and presentation matter most...I think color could matter more in very cold clear water

Hey man I had a question I had recently bought a 8 inch Huddleston and when I went fishing with it is was suspending or like a very slow sink not sure why but any think I could do to it

Best fall swimbaits?

Yo come to CA lets fish green bass and saltwater bass

Great video, but I think color does matter. I have been to lakes where they only eat white topwaters and to other lakes where they only get black. I have been to lakes where they only eat clear and ghost colored baits. Color baits matter.

Color don’t matter just the action of the baits for me

This is not about swim baits

Color does not matter , because fish wants to eat. Seen bass eating orange goldfish, I guarantee you would catch a bass on orange swimbait.