Colors You Should Never Have In Your Tackle Box

I have been fishing with an old friend lately namedstained water, you will read to use dark colored
Joe. I have known him since he was born 38lures like black and grape because the dark colors
years ago, 39 tomorrow. Happy Birthday Joe!in stained water show up better. I might have to
We have been fishing at a lake I love to fish,change my perception on this if he continues to
mainly because of the big bass there. If you're acatch fish the way he does on these bright
Bass Fishing Newsletter Subscriber, you knowflourescent colors.
where I'm talking about. Anyway, if you look inWell, I was informed tonight, he has a lure that he
most peoples tackle boxes you will find normalmade and he has never seen another lure like it
color lures like grape, black, brown, purple, and theanywhere. I can hardly wait to see this thing. I bet
normal colors for lures.it is bright pink or something. He also tells me he
Joe is a different story......has caught bass on it. If this lure come out to be
When you look in Joe's tackle box you see someanother flourescent bright color like he has been
of the ugliest lures you have ever seen. Lures likeusing and catches bass, I am going to tell him the
a bright green tube that you almost neednew rules are that he can't use them anymore
sunglasses to look at it. Or his green frog that iswhen we fish together because the colors
so far from any color of a frog that you wonderembarrass me when people see them..
where he got it and why anyone would purchaseSo, you might be asking yourself....what is the
that color to begin with to fish for bass.point in this post? I am going to tell you here and
So, what is my point? Well, he catches bass onnow. Just because you have never read about a
these darn lures. I mean I wouldn't even wantpro using a different color lure doesn't mean it
people to know I even have them in my tackleisn't going to work and catch bass. If nothing else,
box but he is proud as he can be of them andJoe has made me a believer in that statement.
uses them regularly and catches fish with them. IJust because you have never seen a color in
have to start asking myself if maybe I shouldanother humans tackle box doesn't mean it isn't
invest in a few of them. They go againstany good.
everything I have ever read about choosing aI am going to start buying bright colored lures like
color to fish in stained water. He has caught bassI would have never dreamed of owning before
with them on sunny days, cloudy days and daysthis year fishing with Joe. Then when someone
when it was raining.laughs at me and makes statements to me, like I
The first time he used them and hooked twodid Joe and I drag in the bass using it, they will
bass, I thought it was just luck. Well, then heprobably be buying these stupid bright flourescent
caught two more bass tonight on them while Icolors too.
didn't even have a good strike, using the normalThe last thing he said to me tonight after his usual
colored lures most bass fishermen use. Not somebragging (the rare times he catches more fish
flourescent bright green things like he uses.than me) was "Hey, maybe you should get your
Ok, now if you read most articles about fishingnewsletter and read some of the articles there".