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. 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. 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.
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