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Have you ever looked at the array of colors of bass plugs and worms available
to a fisherman? Walk into any sporting goods store and the walls are full of
bright splashes of color ranging from red to chartreuse and all kinds of
combinations of colors. And those are just the plugs!
Brown plugs look like crayfish, and those with red in them look like crayfish
at times in their life cycles and also can remind fish of the red gills of bait
fish. But what in the world does the color chartreuse look like to fish and why
do they want to eat it? I have wondered about that for years.
At my pond several weeks ago I had that question answered. I throw out
floating catfish food and the bream have learned to come running when I put it
out. Watching them swim around when the sun is bright, I see flashes of
chartreuse in their tails. It looks exactly like the tail of a worm that has
been dipped in chartreuse dye as it waves and wiggles as they feed.
When bass see an artificial bait flashing that color, I bet it looks just
like a bream, one of their most common foods, swimming by. Their natural
instinct has got to be to eat it.
I have a lot more confidence in chartreuse now, and dye the tails of my worms
anytime I am fishing where I think the bass might be feeding on bream. It has
worked the last two tournaments for me.
Watch for bream swimming around the next time you are on the water and try to
see that chartreuse color. I have seen it three or four times at my pond now, so
I am sure it is not my eyes playing tricks on me.
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