Ponds has a few basic colors of frogs he’ll throw, but he feels like the color is a preference more important to the angler when fishing pads or thick vegetation because bass usually strike at movement.
“Unless you’re fishing open water, color has more to do with an angler’s confidence than anything else,” he said.
That being said, Ponds does have preferences.
“I’ll use black on cloudy days, white on other days, and green or school bus yellow on sunny days,” he said. “Sometimes you’ve just got to listen to the fish, and they’ll tell you what color they prefer, if you just listen.”
He said how bass strike the lure also is important.
“If they are hitting the frog real light and barely have it in their mouth, or are missing it, then you may not have the optimum color tied on, and you need to change colors,” Ponds said. “On the other hand, if they are really eating the frog and it’s in the back of their mouth near their throat, or in the top of their mouths way back, you know they really like that color.
“Once you find the color they want, where they’re at and how they want it, you can usually catch them.”
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