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Don’t Get So Wrapped
Up In Color Selection
by "The Bass Coach",
Roger Lee Brown
How many of you anglers who walk into Tackle Shops, Discount
Stores, K-Marts, Wal-Marts, etc., go straight to the sporting
goods department, look for the fishing rods sticking up in the
air to zero in on the Fishing Lures and Plastic Baits section?
Then, when you get there you start looking over all of the enormous
selections of all the different baits and different colors that
are offered by the many bait companies that are on the market
today, and you’re not really sure of exactly what is really
needed, so "The Big Question" comes to mind; "What
colors do I really need?" especially when looking over all
the plastic baits.
Well, let me tell you a little secret that most anglers don’t
know!, and that is; "You don’t need a multitude of
colors in your arsenal." That’s right! and let me say
it again..... "You don’t need every color that you
see!." Now, some anglers may suggest the comment; "well
my partner and I use this certain color on this certain body
of water, and it catches a lot of bass" or others may say;
"I saw this magazine article from one of the top Pros, and
he said to use this; yellow, spotted, half stripped, 7",
curly tail, floating, thing-a-ma-jig plastic made by so &
so, and I saw a picture in the magazine of the 14 lb. bass he
caught off of this certain plastic bait, and now I’ve really
got to have some of these." Now before we get started, let
me explain something to you. The Bassin’ Industry is a "Multi-Billion
Dollar Industry" in today's world and growing more and more
every day. Most of the Pros that lecture these "Bass Seminars"
have an obligation to their sponsors to demonstrate, promote,
and to advertise their sponsored product (Nobody gives anything
for free anymore!).
For example, attend one of their fishing seminars and just
see if they don’t try to sell you on a "certain product",
or the technique that they may use with this "certain bait."
There are more Outdoor TV Fishing Shows, Outdoor Magazines (related
to freshwater fishing), Bass Tournament Organizations, Bass Fishing
Sites (on the World Wide Web), Bass Fishing Clubs, Bait and Tackle
Manufacturers, Bass Boat Manufacturers, Rod Companies, Reel Companies,
and it goes on and on and on, as there ever was before. (That’s
probably why Bass Fishing is considered to be America’s
#1 freshwater sport!) And ALL! of these companies are in the
market to make money.
Now, let’s go even a step further, okay? What sells all
of these products? Hmm, let’s see now, advertisement (Marketing)
and promotion are about the two best ways of selling a product
that I’m aware of and I’m sure that there are more,
but first let’s concentrate on these two for just one moment.
Let’s talk about fishing shows to give you an example! I’ve
co-hosted several TV Fishing shows in the past and let me tell
you that "Most," of the time, (Not All!) but "Most"
of the fish that you see being caught on the show are caught
prior to the actual filming of a show. Yep! now you might ask
yourself; "well I saw the guy set his hook and then reel
in the bass." All I can say to you is this; "Don’t
believe everything that you see!" with today’s editing
equipment, professional camera personnel, and the right camera
shots anything is possible. So let me explain how it works; #1,
you cast out the sponsored bait product (whatever bait or baits
the show is sponsored by, keeping in mind that the fish were
actually caught prior to the show, and in most cases on totally
different bait). #2, while you start your retrieve, you rare
back with your rod like you just got a strike and pretend to
set the hook! (on actually nothing at all). Then the camera will
stop filming. #3, then, you simply reel your sponsored bait back
in to the boat, grab a fish (in the case of a bass show, a bass)
out of the livewell and place the hook of the "sponsored
product" in the fish’s mouth. #4, Next you place the
fish back into the water (with ease, and always keeping the slack
out of your line), then you let the fish swim away from the boat.
#5, then at this time, the camera starts rolling again and starts
filming you fighting the fish back to the boat!...(Really quite
simple!) That’s how Most! of the filming is done.
It’s not so much the bait, or color, or technique used
to catch the bass during the filming, they just want to show
you how much bass all of these "certain baits" can
actually catch! (but do they really?), that’s called Marketing,
OR!, take a look at the packages of most of the baits today.
They have to look appealing on the shelves to the consumer (this
is called Packaging). Just keep this in mind!, most baits on
the market today are made and packaged to catch anglers and not
so much the fish.
Now, I’m telling you this because of all the different
products and especially all the multitude of COLORS that you
must decide on which ones to buy. Okay, let’s get back to
the colors...... First of all I want you to understand that I
am NOT saying that a certain color of a plastic bait will or
will not work under any different circumstances, but I will say
that you don’t really need no more than approximately 2
dozen colors of plastics to catch bass on any body of water throughout
the United States. Now stop and think a minute! There are, without
exaggeration, on today’s market thousands of colors and
combinations of colors when it comes to plastic baits. Remember
what I just said! I said only 2 dozen colors, and not hundreds
of different colors!, whew!, what a money saver, Right!.....
And, if you usually fish deeper than 20’ depths most of
the time, you don’t even need to have that many colors.
The reason is, is because the deeper a colored bait drops through
the water it starts to loose the color of the bait itself. That’s
right, the deeper it goes down into the water the color spectrum
starts to diminish. In other words, if you had a multi-colored
plastic worm and you cast it out letting it drop to a 25’
depth, the colors of that multi-colored plastic worm would be
"Shades of Grays and Blacks" in that depth of water.
Just like scuba diving, when you get down to a certain depth
everything looks Black and White!, well the same goes for colored
plastics (Now, how many colors does an angler actually need when
fishing these deeper patterns?) It doesn’t matter what color
you throw into 20’ plus depths because "All Colors"
will basically all look the same on the bottom. The only difference
now will be is your shade variations.
So, why buy hundreds of different colors of plastic baits
when they will all loose their color at deeper depths? (Makes
no sense to me!) So there is a lesson to learned!, probably the
most important factor to keep in mind when fishing with plastics
is; "The Presentation" of the bait is what really counts!
and not so much the color....... I teach my students presentations,
techniques, as well as colors that they can use anywhere so they
can be highly effective when it comes to catching bass on any
body of water!
For more information on colors, baits, presentations, techniques,
equipment, and just about anything you might want to learn about
bass fishing, you owe it to yourselves to enroll into my 3-Day
"On-Water" Bass Fishing School. You will not only learn
what equipment, baits, and bass related items are really necessary
to have but also how much money you can actually save yourselves
by knowing what not to buy when it comes to baits and equipment.......Until
next time!.....Take Care & God Bless!
"The Bass Coach"
(518) 597-4240
or visit my web sites at: www.capital.net/~rlbrown
and www.fishing-boating.com/basscoach
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