Bass Bait Colours, So many to chose from?

Every time, I am at basspro buying plastics, there are so many colours too chose from, I often wonder if it makes a difference. I always end up picking up the same 3.

1) purple
2) black & blue
3) watermelon

What is your best producing colour? Does it make a difference, most bass just slam the bait as it hits the water, do they even look at the colour.. LOL

I always wonder about this... I know "match the hatch", but as far as I know, nothing in the lake is "black & blue"..

Largemouth.... We use watermelon, green pumpkin, black/blue. I flip a Gambler creature bait sometimes in a color they call "Florida five O" it's basically a contrast between watermelon / green pumpkin / black.

I know some guys who throw Pink plastics, we used to sometimes to. It works.

One of the best largemouth tournament guy ever for this area was Hector Peach, he used a bubble gum colored soft swim bait and cleaned up in the 90's.

Watermelon, watermelon red flake, black, black with red flake, green pumpkin.

Color definitley does make a difference. I never catch anything on bubblegum senkos.

Although I have tried or at least bought a variety of colours, I tend to use watermelon white, green pumpkin, or pumpkin coloured Senkos the most. Occasionally, when I fish a jig with a chunk or creature bait, I'll use black or black/blue. Those other colours just tend to sit in my tackle box or, when things are really slow, get pulled out in desperation! I've read that Elite Series pro, Takahiro Omori, uses only green pumpkin, black/blue, watermelon red, and black neon and he claims that he can fish any lake with those colours. Although we may choose variations on Omori's colours, I think that he has it right when he keeps his colour selection simple. For the lakes that I fish, natural colours seem to work best. I have found, however, that fish in different lakes do seem to have colour preferences: watermelon white may be a killer in one lake yet not produce in another.

a few years ago I was killing the kawarthas (mostly Scugog) on green pumpkin pie, then they turned off, or I lost confidence in them? dont know - my son swears by bubblegum for largies and camo for smallies - I focus more on 4 vs 5 vs 6 inch dependent upon cover, I am not as fussed as I used to be on colour. (until the bite turns on with a certian one! ha)

I've had a lot of success using solid white salted tubes and red and white tubes. They seem to produce the best for me.

Doesnt matter what colour I use. Perch and sunfish rip my worm apart before a bass even sees it but if i had to pick a colour black and red

I don't get to caught up on specific colours, I go with the following. Dirty water = dark bait and clear water = light or natural baits.

Thanks for the help choosing colours, I guess all I need to add is green pumpkin and I should be good to go.

I have tried bubblegum and white, and they did work. Still have some of those colours in the box. But I forget about them and always just toss the usual 3.

I find that colours can either not matter on those good days where the bass are aggressive or be the difference when days are slow.
I've got a few lakes that I need to bust out secret colours if mine of I'm going to make anything happen on.
And others that I can't seem to figure out the bass in.
You go there one day and smash em on something then go back and try it waaaaaay past the time you should be just because you did so well with that color on them before but catch nothing. And then the moment you change it up you catch fish right off the bat.
Another thing comes down to confidence. You'll usually catch more fish on things simply because you have more confidence on it

Black with redflake by far

There isn't a right or wrong color. It depends on all of the variables we encounter as anglers. There aren't any rules!!! Just our willingness to try something different.

sabby, you simplified it. Perfect.