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Glad to see you have some kleenex...the real question is do you have any toilet paper?  In a couple days we'll be using paper towels.

Great lures though, I really like the orange/yellow/black one on the right!

~stay healthy!

I have not run out of TP yet but I have lots of odd socks if I do lol. People have definitely lot their minds 

These two were a gift for someone who has done some 3D printing for me. He fishes lighter spinning gear so made him some of my smaller pike baits. Green one is 5inch thick shallow runner that dives to about 2-4ft. The other is a 6inch thin flat side that runs about 4-6ft

Hope this Covid19 gong show passes by so we can all get back to normal 

Right on!  The shop teacher in the school where I work has a 3D printer and I've thought about experimenting with it.

I'm not sure why, but I've never really felt very confident with greens, despite fishing where there are a lot of perch.  Do you fish mostly pike?  My folks have a vacation home up in western Ontario, and I used to fish up there every summer.  Fishing up there is WAAAAAAAAAAAY better than down here in Illinois.  Most of the fish people catch down here could be used as bait up there...

I have caught basically every fish that swims in BC and Alberta. Pike, lake trout, browns, bull trout, and walleye are the most common theses days. I did spend some years as a guide on the west coast rivers for salmon, steelhead, bull trout, cutthroat, and sturgeon when I was younger. Let’s just say I go fishing lol

As for green it is a go to for me with pike, lake trout, both species of bass, crappie, and coho. For pike and lake trout green is a must have because of how cannibalistic they are in my opinion 

Makes sense!  Most of the water here in IL where I fish is pretty stained, so right now I'm focusing on browns or really bright contrasting colors.  My main fishing goal this year is to catch a muskie out of a local river on one of my baits...granted I've never caught one on anyone's baits, so it's pretty ambitious.

Before my next trip north I'll have to make something with more of a pike green pattern.

Green is good for stained water as well. If you look at how colours are effected by water depth it’s because of the light being filtered out. Stained water filters out light at a faster rate. Green is one of the last colours to fade out do to lack of ligh. But contrasting colours are best to be added because even if all colours wash out to grey the contrasting shades are still seen

I don’t believe lifelike patterns or fine details making a difference. I do strongly believe in contrast and what colours hold up in the water colour/depth I am fishing though 

When I started paying attention to how water filters out the light and how it impacts the colour spectrum it changed how I choose lure patterns. It made a huge impact on my deep water fishing 

I bet color diffusion principles make a big difference.  I'll have to look up more info on that!  I've been wondering which colors stay in the visible range best.