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Does straight Coors or Coors Light catch more fish:)

http://www.lurenet.com/catalog.aspx?catid=coorslure

Or does Budweiser catch more fish?

http://www.antiquefishinglures.com/bigbud.htm

[T Mac]

Does straight Coors or Coors Light catch more fish:)

http://www.lurenet.com/catalog.aspx?catid=coorslure

Or does Budweiser catch more fish?

http://www.antiquefishinglures.com/bigbud.htm


I dunno about those...but as far as BEER helping out....

Not Coors Light!

However.....Coors Original...aka: "Coors Heavy" or "Banquet beer" does much to improve most things for me. ;)

Although I have never actually witnessed it at the lake.....in bars, I have heard of many, many catches of magnificent proportions accomplished by Bud Light drinkers.
--Almost makes me feel bad that I can't hack Bud Light.

:)

[Pooch]

I don't know about the little can lures, but remember that bright light=lite beer / low light=dark beer.

As far as the lures namesakes go, both make you think that you've caught more fish than reality suggests. Especially when someone askes "How'd yah do?"

Pooch

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I don't know about the little can lures, but remember that bright light=lite beer / low light=dark beer.

As far as the lures namesakes go, both make you think that you've caught more fish than reality suggests. Especially when someone askes "How'd yah do?"

Pooch

LOL! You guys are good.

Seriously, I have always heard that light lures are good in light and dark lures are good in dark. Why is that? I do not understand that part of it. Now back to drinking my dark beer:cheers:

[Pooch]

From what I've learned over the years is that silver and bright golds work well during the daylight hours with gold holding on into the evening. Dark jigs or what ever (black, red, purple,blue) provide some silhouette in the dark hours when little or no light (as far as humans are concerned) reaches the depths. When there is little or no light shadows and shapes rule. Lateral lines still pick up vibration and even a different degree of dark stands out and will help fish hone in on a bait.

I've had some luck pulling spinners with black or purple blades at dusk and dark, but not really with enough consistency to call it reliable. If you try this add a single glow bead to the spinner rig. Now that has made a difference in the past. Again it's contrast.

What's a Bass?

Pooch

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From what I've learned over the years is that silver and bright golds work well during the daylight hours with gold holding on into the evening. Dark jigs or what ever (black, red, purple,blue) provide some silhouette in the dark hours when little or no light (as far as humans are concerned) reaches the depths. When there is little or no light shadows and shapes rule. Lateral lines still pick up vibration and even a different degree of dark stands out and will help fish hone in on a bait.

I've had some luck pulling spinners with black or purple blades at dusk and dark, but not really with enough consistency to call it reliable. If you try this add a single glow bead to the spinner rig. Now that has made a difference in the past. Again it's contrast.

What's a Bass?

Pooch

If it was all about contrast would not the Firetiger color be the most contrasting fish catching color ever know to man during daylight hours? Still trying to absorb the night contrast. Black and Glow glow glow! Is Black and Glow like Black and Tan?

A Bass is a dark beer:)
http://www.bass.com/

[Pooch]

Contrast? Shape? Movement? Vibration? Hunger? Instinct? Reaction? Fear? I don't know. I just try to fish with whatever tickles a fishes fancy at the moment and that is a moving target most of the time. I too, like firetiger, but it seems the fish are not as overwhelmed by it's beauty as we are. Maybe it looks too unnatural. In stained water black over gold original Rapala's seem to produce well and it is a really boring pattern, but it puts fish in the boat for me. Two years ago the Clown pattern was kick butt. Last year you couldn't buy a fish on one or even buy that pattern in a store.

A couple of years ago my wife and I were trolling Rapala's. Hers was the black over gold and mine was the blue over silver. Same size lure and probably no more than ten foot apart in the water. Mid morning partly overcast with some bright sun in between clouds. She caught fish after fish and I never had a hit. Had to be color.

Several years before that if you were not pulling a Spin-N-Glow in the green/pink/white pattern you weren't catching fish. Since then I've never caught another fish on that pattern.

Fishing and wives seem to have a lot in common. There is a pattern and it is that there is no pattern.

Good luck with that Bass fishing thing. You know they probably have a cure for that.

I've a brother in Donna, Texas.

Pooch