Your favorite color?

[Lindy Lee]

What are some of your favorite colors for fishing pike (aka snot rockets)?

My stand by spoons are red/white or copper. Have also had good luck with lime/white and black/white. Best weedless spoons that I have used are the ones made by Fish Trap.

[Nick Kuhn]

It depends, in clear water I find that often the brightest yellow/orange you can find is the ticket. Other times black/nickel seems to work really well. Red and white has always produced pretty consistently as well.

[jwhjr]

White, yellow and red.

[Newcastle]

Hammered copper-if I had to pick one spoon finish. Spinner baits yellow or white skirt with two blades-brass or copper finish blades

[Neighbor_guy]

Well.... My first go to's tend to be white and red. Either a white and red silver minnow with a 4" white grub trailer, or a White and red bucktail. If those are not working or the water is stained unpainted spoons, brass or chrome. From there it gets a little complicated

[Steve Foss]

I have had far and away my best luck in most conditions with chartreuse. Especially true of spinnerbaits.

[fishin58]

Lindy, you better shape that language up in this FORUM we don't allow such rude words for our precious toothy fish!!!jk..I have always had success with white, either a white spinnerbait or a darker spinnerbait tipped with something white.

[b1gf1sh1]

on my favorite body of water with the angle out of the east at 20 degrees above the horizon, until it is 20 degrees above the horizon on a partly cloudy with at least 70 percent of the sky open at any givin time these are my go to colors for different lures.

spinnerbait/ white with silver or gold blades or combonation white/silver

huskyjerk/ silver/black

shadrap/ white or natural shad

daredevelle... green/yellow frog/silver back

inline spinner... black with no hackle/orange/brown blade(s))/silver back

shallow thunder... mullet or shad

soft plastics... anything natural

livebait rig ... stealth or silver blade

[Lindy Lee]

fishin58, no offence on the pike nickname. I heard it once and thaught it was something different. I like to fish (& eat) them just as much as the next guy. It also looks like someone said the same thing to you in your signiture LOL. Can't wait to get out there and start chasing them again. See ya on the water.

[cjac]

In the pike forum, we can affectionately refer to them as Snot Rockets, just nowhere else!

Colors: Boy, it's hard to say when in reality they eat METAL lures! Really, I have a ton of white and chartruece spinnerbaits with various blade combinations/colors/sizes.

Cranks: I seem to gravitate to firetiger or bright lures in general, I know this will make b1gf1sh1 cringe.... They just work for me! Maybe because I'm often in stained water? I just know... "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"! I also like white cranks with red heads. I have a 6' Swim Wizz that has lots of teeth marks, it's done well for me.

[bassNspear]

white, white and more white

[b1gf1sh1]

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firetiger or bright lures in general, I know this will make b1gf1sh1 cringe.... They just work for me! Maybe because I'm often in stained water? If it ain't broke, don't fix it"!

i've fished firetigers next to people or trolling and their rods bend like trees in the wind. mine like a pool stick in the wind. it's just crazy. after a few hundred times of those pats on the back and snickering words of encouragement'' you'll get em next time''. i gave up on it. chartruse is the same story. i believe in the if it aint broke don't fix it. but... if it's broke, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!! if i ever put another firetiger anything on my line it'll be too soon ... i do like the softer fluorecent colors like orange, blue, red, red-orange though. green painted on a medium solid gold with bright white in spot's basecoat aint bad either. real cool looking. but so far the fish hate it.

[GRH]

SPOONS

orange/copper

blue/silver

SPINNERS/BUCKTAILS

white with silver blades

black with orange blades

CRANKS

Bright orange or chartruese

fire tiger

blue/silver