Purple lures.

[rayke1938]

Why is it that a lot of overseas manufacturers do not make many purple lures.

Most aussie ones usually include at least one in their range but it seems to be rare for the japanese to have them.

Is it only aussie fish that like purple?

For exanple i would like to try a purple sammy.

Cheers

Ray

[Angus]

I asked this on the Strike King forum in the states Ray. They love their American Bass fishing and out of 100's of models they make guess what: No purple!!

Also i noticed a serious lack in the Asian market.

I wonder what that says about Australian fish

Or do you think if we went to the states or asia with some purple spinner baits or predateks we would clean up!!!

Angus

[rayke1938]

They do seem to have a few spinnerbaits and luhr jensen and manns have a few but thats all i can find. I reckon it would be intestering to go to the states with a few halcos and see how they go.

Ray

[Zim man]

it is a good question. with largemouth bass fishing, the trend has been to use purple in limited doses and only with soft plastics. you have the junebug colour and an older colour called tequila sunrise which was purple and black. Spinnerbaits in purple, blue, black or combinations are unheard of unless it is in jigs for flipping and in spinnerbaits designed for night fishing. when it comes to hardbodies, a few makers such as manns ventured into these colours. The big trend is towards chartreuse and white styles.

as an importer it is a real challenge to find colour combos that meet australian needs.....but i'am working on it:laugh:

[chubbstar]

If I purchased a little air brush and charged a small fee, would you get them painted buy me?

Of course I would have to look into costs etc, but just thought I'd throw it out there.

Jayson

[Angus]

Chubbstar: Not a bad little idea there mate

Angus

[will]

when i was making my lures purple/black was a comon colour ask 4. i did well on the colour morning/late afternoon.i have seen a small spray gun 4 around $35 works well just need to keep them cleaned well

[chubbstar]

will wrote:

when i was making my lures purple/black was a comon colour ask 4. i did well on the colour morning/late afternoon.i have seen a small spray gun 4 around $35 works well just need to keep them cleaned well

I had a quick look on Ebay, $15-$110 for a gun, $110 for a small compressor, then theres paint, thinners etc + time.

I'll have a think and do the math. No point if I have to charge to much:huh:

Jayson

[bretto]

I bought my wife an airbrush set up recently but it cost about $600 for compressor and airbrush and it had never crossed my mind to use it to customise lures. You can pick up pretty some good entry level guns on ebay for cheap as chips and they are pretty good for the price.

[faulked]

have you thought about tins of car paint and or nail polish

[shortie]

you can get an airbrush that connects to compressed air in a can from any hobby shop. About $40.

[jeff f]

nailpolish works well and only 50c at te junk shops

[fishyman]

i have an airbrush and compressor to make my lures

[Biggles]

G'day Ray, I got a 28cm bass today on a Purple spinner bait, and my better half has a purple yak and every purple lure ever made, all 4 of them. Go purple.

Regards

Al

[pcsolutionman]

purple is by far my favourite bass colour, not sure shy other countrys dont have many lures in purple??

Lee

[kiara_poltegerist]

good question. after looking through my lure collection, it seems like i've only got 1 purple lure! my Smith multi-master spinnerbait.

[Bommie]

ssshhh they havn't wised up to the colour yet:laugh:

[kiara_poltegerist]

haha.. well, i did notice one thing about purple lures tho, few years back when i was field testing some lures for a local manufacturer here, their purple lures got hit much more often than other colours on the troll.

[Bommie]

Kiara just out of interest, did any of them have black vertical stripes on them?

[kiara_poltegerist]

Bommie wrote:

Kiara just out of interest, did any of them have black vertical stripes on them?

just looked through the pix. nope, no vertical stripes, but a scale pattern along the sides of the lure.

[Bommie]

thanks for that,

Matt.

[kiara_poltegerist]

Bommie wrote:

thanks for that,

Matt.

np mate. tightlines!

[faulked]

were they as popular fishing off the bank or just trollling

[Dinodadog]

I have that many purple lures in my tackle box I am thinking of painting the box purple to match

[kiara_poltegerist]

faulked wrote:

were they as popular fishing off the bank or just trollling

didnt fish it casting, coz it was 150mm, so yea, you get the picture, but it did get many more hits than the other different coloured lures in the spread.

i reckon it's got sth to do with the silhouette being easier to see as purple is a relatively solid colour, and would stand out better in murky waters.

[Feral]

Where do you get your purple spinner baits Dino? Cant say I have ever seen one in a tackle shop.

[Bommie]

Feral I get mine from Charlton's or big w

[Dan23]

kiara_poltegerist wrote:

faulked wrote:

were they as popular fishing off the bank or just trollling

didnt fish it casting, coz it was 150mm, so yea, you get the picture, but it did get many more hits than the other different coloured lures in the spread.

i reckon it's got sth to do with the silhouette being easier to see as purple is a relatively solid colour, and would stand out better in murky waters.

Yeah, I saw something on this on a fishing show the other day. They were saying darker lures show up better on the troll as the fish can pick them out. Lighter coloured lures get lost in the blue sky above and aren't as noticeable.

[Dinodadog]

Feral they are stocked at BCF,Sandgate Tackleworld, Tackle shop Carseldine to name a few

[Plastic Man]

Feral wrote:

Where do you get your purple spinner baits Dino? Cant say I have ever seen one in a tackle shop.

really just about every spinnerbait brand i have seen has them in purple bassman and smak both have a least three Different purple spinnerbaits in their range bassman you can get at tacklewarehouse at coorparoo

[Feral]

Ok, mustn't have been looking hard enough! Ta.