Lure Color

i like fire tiger dipsy's. harness's i use copper blades w/orange beads or silver blades w/ red beads. from what i hear about every color works. good luck!

 Dipsys and Harnesses watermellon,watermellon,watermellon nuff said.

WHY NOT !

Alot of good info. Should get me started. Thanks

I know guys who use the black dipsys just to put color out of mind...lol to me the dipsy color is about the last thing im worried about....Im more worried about speed and depth of what i am running.
 
If i had to choose dipsy color watermellon, firetirer, red and black would be my choices....

LoL my fish count speaks for its self....as far as the metallic blue dipsy goes...i dont even own one...last year was probaly the easiest year of fishing we have had in 10 years...i never caught so many fish...Everybody did well last year....
 
Depth and speed are 100X more critical to catching fish than the color of your dipsy.....I use watermellon, Firetiger, and Red and Black primarily everyday with a mixture of harness colors on each...you dial in the speed and depth on your baits i dont care if you have black dispsy with brown harnesses, or an orange spoon you are going to catch fish...
 
You dont need every color of dipsy just go by the KISS method.  Keep It Simple Stupid and you will be fine...fish are dumb and react instinctivly...pull something across their nose they are bound to jump on it.

And you really think those limits came due to a mear metallic blue dipsy?  No other reason?...while you were catchin them on metallic blue did you think...i wonder if this dipsy were red if it would work?...did you rip off the dipsy and change color to check just to be sure...i bet not...i bet you were happy catchin fish and didnt care.  it was working so why even bother....Chances are you just were pulling that dipsy at the right depth and speed and it wouldnt have mattered if it were any color it would have been productive.  I bet there were others on the lake that day pounding the walleye who dont even own a blue dipsy...

As far as one rod catchin the fish and another not...or one rod on one side of the boat doing all the work...that is a DIRECT speed issue...one side is pulling harder than the next.  Also some dipsys are lighter than others thus causing some of them to dive deeper than others (not ALL size 0 dipsys weight the same).  Theres a bunch of issues that can be addressed here but the color of a dipsy diver is definatly not one of them....It is not the matter of limiting or not limiting by any means...

I am strictly a walleye fishermen of the great lakes that is all i fish for and want to fish for.  A dipsy is a tool allowing you to achieve depth and plane your bait away from the boat...it is also an attractant. 

I am very consistant and very anal about my worm harnesses and rods and reels but not very particular about my diver color...they all work...Black, Purple, Green, Blue, Watermellon, Red, Copper, Silver, Firetiger...pick your posion...they all catch fish and i have never ever noticed a difference between catch rate of one color dipsy to the next.....i have my favorites and they dont change much...

Yes guys of ontario do not deviate...they have what works for them...would something else work...most likely...it is all about what you are confident in using.  Guys always talk to me about black and purple harnesses...i still never run them...why because i just never got confident with them ive used them, caught fish with them...but never really liked using them...so i stick to my guns that have always worked and is still working today....

Last year was like i said the easiest walleye fishing i have ever seen on Lake Erie.  Nothing mattered, find the fish, run your rods, fill the cooler...

Storm i understand that some days one thing may work better than another but to over analyze catch rate due to the color of a dipsy diver i would have to think you are endorsed by luhr jensen...lol

I know charter caps that run all black dipsys and NEVER change...same with watermellon and fire tiger...one color...on the entire boat...and they catch close to 1000 fish a year...

Negative.  Tourneys are not my thing...I have never entered a tourney on erie...lol i am fairly extreme enough just fishing for fun...lol i might just blow my lid with cash on the line...

Fishing is just fishing, and i love it.  But i never really got into tourney fishing...there are alot of good fishermen in erie and im fairly certain the charter guys have the pro division all wrapped up...
 
I like catching big fish, but that never is a concern of mine as to just catchin fish. Ill probaly be fishing that day.  But it will not be in the tourney.  I will leave that to the pros.
 
I am not the best at this, nor am i the worst.  I was simply tryin to give some advice to someone who obviously is just starting to outfit for dipsy divers.  I thought simplfying the advice giving him some basics would be much better than confusing the information telling him he needs 4 of every color dipsy luhr jensen makes in all sizes.

Over all the years, I've learned that all those fancy lure colors and patterns attract the fishermen more than they actually attract the fish.  I have to admit though, I do fall victim to to owning and buying tons of variety just to feel prepared for anything, but generally stick to the basics....bright colors on bright days, dark colors on dark days.  Thats been pretty productive for me thus far.

I've seen many occasions where only one color will get bit.  Enough for me to believe that at least some of the time color matters.

Trout stinger, Trout T-stick, Trout bomber, Trout harness (blue,pink,black dots, s/back).  Walleyes love em and so do the slimers.......
 
Perch Stinger, works very well,but I have yet to find a Perch plug that works well for me.

It is a possibility i might join in on the tourney storm...however its not written in stone....plans are flip flopping at the moment that may only make it possible for me to be there one day that weekend, but nothing is out of the question...Might see my name on the boat list....but nothing is a definate at this point...

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Over all the years, I've learned that all those fancy lure colors and patterns attract the fishermen more than they actually attract the fish.  I have to admit though, I do fall victim to to owning and buying tons of variety just to feel prepared for anything, but generally stick to the basics....bright colors on bright days, dark colors on dark days.  Thats been pretty productive for me thus far.

 
lol. I know what you mean. Even though I don't use 'em on Lake Erie, I have had many good days on other bodies of water (the rivers and pymatuming) trolling the smaller sized Hot n' Tots. When they got bought out a few years ago, and switched to the plastic lip, I started frantically buying the original metal lipped smaller Hot n' Tots where ever I could find them. You wouldn't believe what I was paying on Ebay for the gold with flouresent orange back color. I wanted to make sure I had some to sustain me through the rest of my life. Now you can find them everywhere and at the original price. Oh well.  
 
It has crossed my mind that when it comes to lures (well, boats and fishing for that matter), I might have a problem that requires counseling.