Crawler Harness Colors

[Inlander]

If you had to pick your favorite colors for blades on a harness what would you pick. In your opinion does glow in the dark help? I like putting prism tape on my blades and using colored hooks personally. I would like to figure out some two tone colors that would work. I was thinking of white/lavender and white/pink combos for something different. Any ideas are appreciated.

[s.f.]

what little i know about spinners, i will offer my two cents worth.

i use silver hammered some days, other days i try silver hammered, and once in a while i experiment with silver hammered. that said...lol

if you use colors or color combo's, try to find blades that have a nickel finish on the inside of the cup. makes for very interesting
results.... if you can find'em.

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[Eyecrosser]

I have to second s.f.'s opinion. One other combo I like is chartruse and white. I do not think glow in the dark is an advantage. Hammered gold has also worked well in stained water. Good luck.

[Peanut]

I use blades quite a bit. Hot colour last year was black, blue and white, with sparkle, in a 3-tone "perch" pattern.

Chartreuse with orange are usually consistent. As stated, hammered gold was decent, especially with an orange blade in a 2-blade rig.

Northland makes a new series of blades that are kind of prismic or metallic, in perch, rainbow, baitfish, etc. colours. These also produced better than average.

Oh ya - you asked about white/pink - I had one white w/pink 5 of diamonds blade - it had a good day, then it got lost. I never bought more, but it caught fish.

derrek.

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[Chad]

Another option for color blades if the inside is not silver is to add your prizm tape there.

[Turk]

I've had excellent result with blue/glow/pink. Tried the chart/orange a few times, but kept going back.

I haven't tried the hammered silver yet because of the success with blue/glow/pink.

Turk.

[perchjerker]

For whats its worth, in the Michigan waters Erie my default is hammered chrome.

[Bad Finger]

Steve,

Yourself and most every other Mille Lacs guy I talk to are always using "Hammered" blades. Why hammered?

I ran hammered and regular plated silver and gold blades all of last year on Mille Lacs and saw no noticable difference in catch rates. Side by side, day in day out the plated spinners did as good or better in some cases.

Just curious if you had a reason for choosing Hammered over Plain plated blades?

[Andy K]

We've had tremendous luck at Glendo with a harness called "walleye magic" that has a firetiger pattern. They are made by Worden's Lures.
I found them at http://www.yakimabait.com/prowalleye.phtml
I noticed that they don't have a picture of the harness, but if you go to their order page, they have a link to a color chart that has the colors. Just look up the firetiger. Good luck!

[Dunn]

My go to crawler harness' combo's are:

Green Hex Beads and Hammered Silver Blades
or
White Round Beads and Jet Black smooth finish blades

Just my go to's usually. I know silvers, golds, coppers, and the usual greens, yellows, blacks, and oranges are defaults for alot of 'eye fisherman across the country.

It's relatively simple in concept. A perch is what colors? Greenish, Yellow, Orange, and Black. Scales and what not give a reflection, maybe resembling a belly or side scales of a fish that is struggling.

Just my two cents on the subject though.
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Marshall J. Dunn
N.P.A.A. # 701

[s.f.]

i draw presentation conclusions based on a long history, be it at mille lacs or elsewhere. sometimes, fishing is so good, many things will be equal or close to it. last year being one of those years on mille lacs where food supplies are down and there is a huge, healthy
bunch of fish.
one time on lake erie, the fishing was so good, a statement was made something like "i bet i could even catch one on a spark plug". well...
you guessed it! less than five minutes, there was an eight pounder hanging on the sparkplug. lol

bottemline is...if you use the hammered blades, more times than none, you will outfish or compete with any combo possible.
i just keep lookin' in the livewell and the scoreboard and react accordingly. lol

good luck!

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[Capt. Denny Bergeman]

Inlander,

On Lake Erie by far the most productive blade is the Gold Hammered in the clear to light stained water. In the stained water Perch, and Chartruse/Orange have the upper hand. Size of the blades will vary during the season. Good Fishing.

[TK_551]

I always mix it up and see what the fish want that day. I have done pretty well with just about any color combination. I prefer the Baitrigs Astro Brite Blades myself in the light blue/pink/white. They seem to work well in stained water (Castle Rock/Petenwell.) I will always just experiment until I find what works.

Tom
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