These are my favorite swimbait colors and in my opinion the only colors you need in your tackle box! They work for largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass!
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I was born and raised in Chicago, but after working 12 years in the financial Industry regulating the futures and options markets at the CME/CBOT I decided to pursue my passion fishing professional tournaments and left my full time corporate job. At that point, I moved to Junction City, WI with my wife Sara and two boys Hank and Duke. I’ve been fishing professionally since 2011 and full-time since 2015. I’ve qualified for seven MLF Championships and won over a half million in tournament winnings at the professional level.
I don't throw them much, but when I do it's usually for smallies and the color is KVD magic, or pearl
Black
Listen to this man gentlemen for he knows whereof he speaks
Just got back from a short combo trip to Sandusky Ohio
Sons wanted to go to Cedar Point AP for a day and also do some shore fishing for a few days
Absolutely mudered the largemouth using both Keitech and Zoom 4" swim baits in Sight Flash and Smallmouth magic
When the chatterbait bight went cold switched to Z-man Willowchatters with the above 4" swim baits and just hammered the bass
My sons and I actually drew a small crowd of fisherman wanting to know what we were using that allowed us to catch 4 and 5x more bass than anyone else
One person even offered to buy a Willowchatter off me but I told him sorry I only had three and my sons and I were using all three
One thing I did was use a trick when the bite slowed a bit you suggested Matt by dipping just the tails in chartreuse dye and the bite quickly improved.
Only swim bait colors I use are the ones you suggested but In the future I will be sure to being at least two packs each as the bass quickly ripped off the tails and I went through and entire pack of both Keitech and Zoom 4" swim baits
Great info
What color do you like for lake toho in FL?
Thanks.
Blue Flake and Black
Electric shad is always a good one. It’s funny you mentioned the goby colour, I was running a similar colour in a pond with zero gobies but the bass were chewing it very aggressively.
The black keitechs too I’ve gotten bit on
But for me just white or sight flash is usually a winner
I will say with 💯 certainty Matt is NOT full of it!! Some of these colors are my staple on the river.
FYI Matt, that electric blue chartreuse works very well down here on Table Rock😜
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How do you rig the reaction innovation dipper for grass?
You left out pink! Pink swimmers are deadly in clear water, especially on very highly pressured lakes. And, they are fanatic at night. I have no idea why pink works so well at night, but it does.
So….. Walleye? Is purple overrated? Specifically fishing the chain o lakes in IL. Also, other fishing pros keep saying swimbaits and largemouth that there are other baits that work much better. I know smallmouth will eat them. But largemouth?
Houdini color in reaction innovation in my favorite for smallmouth. Also like sight flash
Past 20+ years BP green pumpkin/pearl……10 :1 over every other color in Cincinnati stained/ dirty water….you mentioned dyes..😂 gotta have…create your own bluegill 😂😂😂😂
Great video. Pro blue red pearl (keitech) / lab rat (RI) is always my starting point. It works in all water types. If the water is more dirty than usual the pearl for sure or my favorite color is dark purple black and silver fleck with a natural or pearl belly. And then I’ll have the RI Sungill color or raid cosme wagasaki which are great blue gill imitators. Can’t go wrong with keitech easy shiner, RI dippers and raid swimbaits. 4 colors is all I’ve found I need.
Nice, I finally got lucky and already had all the colors you mentioned, this video had me nervous I needed to buy more stuff I didn’t have, had the TackleWarehouse link opened and everything lol, good video
I’ve caught more bass on white/sight flash than any other color. 2nd would be bluegill flash both Keiteck. 3.3 is my go to size as a straight swimbait or as a trailer on my swim jigs🎣
Favorite all around clear water for Great lakes Smallmouth is called firecracker.
Somewhat clear body with multiple colors in it. It just works in all conditions. And I'm not stuck using all the time, but I do find myself ending up with it often.
Matt, you should for sure try straight black. That has been very good for me on smallmouth in clear water.
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I think pink is underrated (I sure did) in stained/te-water, got a few packs of the powerbait power swimmer in cotton candy and they have been smashed this season when the weather has been clear but the water a bit "dirty". 🙂 Other then that, kinda spot on the way I think about it, but did't stop me from buying every color of my favorite bait. xD (D'fin from daiwa)
Like your choices 👌. Cheers Matt
Great color recommendations .
Green pumpkin with red flake on top with translucent pearl with blue flake and color shift on the bottom. The closest color to this is called hammer time by bass assasin. It catches piggies 🐷
great video, other than the colors mentioned, do you any you prefer to use when fishing in WI
Electric shad is a killer here in Texas.
Strike King and Keitech's Ayu is very close to your Goby color. On Kentucky Lake, there's a population of largemouth that stay up shallow all summer feeding on emerald shiners, and a 2.75" Rage Swimmer or Easy Shiner in Ayu matches them perfectly. Bonus, if you run across some bluegill beds a dab of chartreuse spike-it on the tail turns Ayu into a passable bluegill imitation.
Hands down that pro blue is the best Keitech color, I discovered that on my own years ago. Another great color is ayu and bluegill flash both are pretty versatile.
I'm new to swimbaits and grabbed up ghost shad rage swimmers in 3.75 and some 6th sense treble line through heads on sale to try out this year. I can't wait!
Thank You! like having 3 to 4 colors. space and weight big deal in a Kayak
Good video Matt 🤛
Pro blue red pearl in the prespawn. Thank me later.
Thank you for the tips
You haven’t fished the melon color yet then. It’ll change your mind Matt.
I live in MA with no shad but man they love that green gizzard for some reason.