If a black plug appears better in a dark night does a big white plug appear smaller to a bass??
I have often done well throwing a big A-40 in white on the darkest of nights.
Places like montauk where the baitfish of the day can be the size of Ur pinkie nail.Why use a Big plug like that when the bait is so tiny? One reason it cast further than smaller offerings.But that would not have mattered if i wasn't scoring.Perhaps the big plug looks like a small school of bait as the profile might appear more vague in the fishes eye.Something I have often thought of.How many times have u been out an 90 percent of the fish Ur catching are hooked everywhere in the head but the mouth.I think the bass are just crashing the pile in effort to suck in all the little bait they think they see in a mad dash.In one of my travels I had a ten day trip in Nantucket around a dark moon.It's darker than whoopy goldberg out there.A pearl bomber was the hot plug as we tonged bass 15-35 lbs every cast.The bait was squid...
A pearl bomber has been my one of my #1 lures for yrs.first bomber out of the bag no matter what the spotlight in the night is doing.
Plain black to me is boring.I almost always throw black n purple instead.My second favorite color.
What baitfish is black an purple???
Most fish are 2-tone in color.If a bait is olive an white why is black so important.it might not look right to the bass as they might not see what they eat so clearly.I think thats why most plugs are multi colored.Go to the SWE an look at the range of color that the Super Strike dude paints his needles in.They must have been the hot color at some time.Bright nights can be tricky as i have have had productive light lures turned off by midnight cloud cover.It's hard to cover all the bases in a ten tube space..As a rule i will go with darker plugs on dark nights an lighter plugs on brighter nights. I also like to live on the edge an give this philosophy a twist.I throw em the change-up.Works for me..
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