We all know the “red in the spring” thing re: baits, though living here in the Northeast I don’t think it’s that big a deal. But red in the fall?
Ran across this about Oregon’s Hyatt Lake: “Largemouth bass fishing is excellent for those wind-drifting worms or casting and retrieving any red spinner or spoon.”
So: Red in the fall? Anyone else do that, or notice any perennially good color in the fall? I can’t recall one offhand. For me it’s more about bait size in the fall – throw ’em big….
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Dwain
September 26, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Here its all about the shad in the fall so natural patterns which mimic shad, or whites and silvers in things less realistic are the ticket for the fall for me.
Chad Keogh
September 26, 2011 at 7:24 pm
I throw red all year by way of my 4″ black w/red flake (black neon) tubes. Is it the black or the red that the bass are keying on? I don’t care. As long as they are biting it.
Alex Voog
September 27, 2011 at 11:58 am
On sunday morning, chilly, rainy, dead calm water surface, I was throwing a red craw rattletrap. This place is full of shad, but they wouldn’t touch anything shad or chartreuse, at least not until much later in the day when it warmed up. I finally found several herons set up on a mud flat edge, with dying lily pads, so I knew the shad were there. Throwing the red trap, I caught a small bass, and then a 22 inch poker of a pike. I followed that with a nice 14.5 bass on a 4 inch shad shaped balsa crank that I threw up on the pads, popped it off and the second it hit open water he smoked right on top. But back to red. I’ll throw it anytime of year because they bite it ALL year long, sometimes even better in the fall. If I was only able to use one color all year it would be red or red/orange craw.