Senkosam Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 http://www.baits.com/color/ If anyone wants to get an idea of various colors for soft plastics, go to the above site. Finally, actual pictures of plastics give you a better idea of what the combo looks like and a description of flake size and color is included under each expandable thumbnail. I have used many of the colors with success (not having seen the chart), but a few are new to me and something I'll be pouring in winter for next year. Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB GONE Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 Great post!! It is always good to see new color charts (or updated ones) to inspire new color combos. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senkosam Posted October 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 GBN, once fishing ends for the year, I'm going to show some thumbnail pics of similar color combos using poured plastics. Bear Paw (JohnO) is also working on sending color combos that are usual and unusual. He sells quite a few custom colors to those that request it because of unavailabilty. I remember looking through catologs of crankbaits and soft plastics to discover cool colors that I felt would give me a little more confidence in a lure, especially one I hadn't tried before. Over the years, I've blown hundreds on great looking colors and have done well on many. GY is no fool when it comes to sales. The more variety - the better the chances of selling more. Everyone has different tastes and preferences and it's hard to predict the next 'hot' color or color favorites that people will go out of their way to purchase. Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senkosam Posted October 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2004 I expanded the thumbnails of the color combos on GY's site and noticed a few things: 1. he uses different size flake ranging from .015 to .062 2. some color combos have different hues - the greens used are emerald green, kelly green and chartreuse. The purples used are violet, maroon, and blue grape (LC's purple) Marigold is used with copper and black or kelly green and black. Orange isn't used very much unless red is also used. I haven't seen any colors that use different silver colors such as chrome, steel, light blue silver or almond silver (platinum). Light smoke or clear plastic with flakes are also not displayed. A friend who sells plastics made a few in light smoke and clear, and the glitter appeared different than in colored plastic. I imagine that light colors with glitter would stand out since the glitter color isn't filtered and the flakes will contrast against the sky like pepper (black flake). Some of the plastics in the gallery are light colored or clear and veins show up better. I've got a lot of experimenting to do this winter. Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
