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Opening the stomach cavity would reveal just what was being consumed and would give a clue as to the color of bait to be used.Įarly in the season when glass minnows or small mullet were the top choices of trout, he would use light-colored baits. Grigar loved to check fish, that had been recently caught where he fished or planned to fish, for their feeding habits. Rudy Grigar, who largely is credited with starting the interest in fishing with artificial baits in the Galveston Bay complex, had years of experience in dealing with baits and colors long before most “hardware” and “soft plastic” fishermen arrived on the scene.
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In Mansfield, white Norton Sand Eels with chartreuse tails out performed other variations of the same bait three to one and root beer colored touts did the same thing over other colors of touts in East Bay. One situation took place in Port Mansfield, the other in East Galveston Bay. The example I mention has occurred on several occasions while wade-fishing or drifting and casting with the same type of baits, in each case we all were tossing soft plastics. Personally, I have fished with others using baits of various colors and after an hour or more, certain colors would be hit while fish turned up their noses to the rest of the colors. The color of a lure has everything to do with catching saltwater fish. The reason for this change is to camouflage and protect them from predator fish. When they move into the bays to spawn, they change colors and become brownish and stay that way until they move back into their normal habitat. This makes them almost invisible and lets them blend with the clear water background. Saltwater fish living where the water is very clear tend to be bluish or silver. The trout I see from hatcheries that aren't local always weird me out because they are so much more stocky in comparison to my local trout almost a condensed length version of what I'm used to seeing, and colorations that are typically darker, like bigworm said the trout in many of the lakes around here have a bluish/gray tinged back and predomantly silver sides.H ave you ever been fishing with friends and either you or they were catching fish while the other person was not? Well, if you were using artificial baits, I bet the difference in success was a result of the color of the bait, assuming they all were different colors.įish are not color blind and can see clearly on the darkest nights and can distinguish colors. Some rivers also have runs of half-pounders which are medium sized trout that have been to the ocean and travel back up the river to feed, I think its up to local regulations whether those are trout or steelhead.
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A rainbow trout isn't a landlocked steelhead necessarily because even a juvenile "steelhead" (rainbow trout) in a river will not reach maturity until it has entered the ocean & is headed back up its river to spawn (there's not really a set in stone stage that differentiates the two), also when a steelhead, usually a retread hatchery fish, is restocked into a lake without tributaries it isn't really considered a steelhead anymore just a big trout. get their color from the deep clear reservoirs, the trout I see or catch in lakes that are shallower with grass or are dirty are colored accordingly usually darker and more vivid coloration in clear cover lakes, and more pale in dirtier lakes, similar to bass coloration under similar circumstances.
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I personally think that trout in most fisheries in Northern Ca, Oregon etc. Ī steelhead is a rainbow trout that has been to the ocean, there's no difference in strain. I think kokanee is a flat out badass color, for absolutely no reason, so I throw that general patterned baits a lot. I REALLY think, whatever you feel the most confident in will A. My favorite topwater swimbait I own is a bass (largemouth) colored MS slammer that I use to catch smallies in a lake with virtually no largemouth, and they absolutely slaughter it. I bought a matte lit-up 10'' wake for dead-sticking/target fishing with the idea that it would be more efficiently imitating a sunburned & weak trout, maybe thats why I caught fish on it, or maybe I just had good confidence that it was the right color selection for the conditions, but at the end of the day unfortunately it probably makes little difference. As far as practical belief goes you'd probably gather dark trout would excel in lower light and dirtier water while light trout in natural light, but realistically trout really don't look all that much like 90% of the baits people are fishing anyways. I really don't think it makes a big difference, even the color changes from light trout to dark trout are subtle on most baits.