What is your favorite color bucktail?

[walleye]

Our local musky group was discussing the merits of colors of bucktails. The majority seems to think that area and presentation are more important than color. To fuel my argument for color, I was wondering what your favorite colors were.

[mikie]

black

[john skarie]

I'm on the fence when it come to color, it's hard to prove if you wouldn't have caught that fish with another color after you have already hooked and released it.

That being said, I have a pink and black sugartale with a nickel blade that has caught a lot of big fish, not sure why, but in the last two years it's fooled 2 43"s, 45", 47", 48" and this year a 54".

Not to mention other smaller fish.

JS

[Musk Rat]

Funny Marc Thorpe used a gay looking pink and black Lindy bucktail to land three muskies in only a few hours at Monksville this spring. Maybe there is something to it. Andy

[ToddM]

Stained water, chartruse blade with black, perch or brown gold trailer.

Clear or shad lakes, white with silver blade or white blade in greener colored water.

[iamwalleye1]

I am with you todd!

[Otter]

Black and white with silver blade (sucker).

[rpieske]

Caught over 40 this year on one lure: Buchertail 500, black with flame blade (fluted).

[Otter]

With the flame blade, were most of your fish in stained water, or does that color work for you in clear water?

[Cold Stark Reality]

Oh God! please help the minions as they do not know the error of
their ways.

If they are hittin' hair they they will hit any color-
Look at how many colors people have caught fish with.
A rainbow variety of hair- blue/pink?/Wow BLACK/firetiger/perch....
Blades - Silver/Gold/flourescent-red/orange/green.....

- Baits in the water -
General baitfish matching colors and a few bright baits will pretty much cover your fishing needs. A small and large version
of each would be a better allocation of lure funds than
having every color on earth.
These fish hit a 12in black suick - what the h#ll is that suppose to
imitate ? or a 4in crank bait or even funnier is a 'walk the dog'
topwater, what in the animal kingdom moves in a 1ft. zig/zag pattern for 100ft !!! Nothing. Last but not least 1/4oz. jig tipped with a
leech.
Get something close to them when they're hungry, they'll pretty
much bite. Changing bait 'action/type' will be much more productive
than a subtle or wild color change.
Feeding opportunity and hunger drive the strike. These are
tiny brained fish not interior decorators struggling with matching
hues and shades to hook anglers !!!!!

Great marketing for bait makers... Are we thinking now ?

Cold Stark Reality

ps - No stories on 'we caught a bunch of 50s on xyz color'
you caught them because you always throw xzy color- like
let me guess - rubbing my temples - black hair and a silver
blade !!! Every one catches fish with that because everyone
has five versions of it, and throws one, always !!!

[rpieske]

That color worked all this season and last. It worked in gin clear Crow Lake, early season LOTW and in stained water later in the season. I wish I could find another. I flat wore that one out.

[lunge maniac]

never mind a bucktail get a crazy crippler crank bait. i caught 11 muskies on sunday on LOTW. biggest 50.50 inch. chill and keep fishin.

[EsoxHunter]

Lunge Maniac, let's see the pics.