What is the best lure colour for barramundi? : Fishing Polls

Matt Flynn

If you had to choose one colour, what would be the overall best lure colour for barramundi?

And do you have evidence of it, or is it just the colour you use all the time?

And do barra like different colours at different times?

seano

Gold!!!

Dick

Most of the paint knocked off so it has a random matt and shiny appearance about it like a half munted bait fish

ponyplay

white

rockviewau

ive only caught barra on white drop bears, but then again ive only caught 4 barra, so no major experience here.....

MattyA

Good topic!

For softies I reckon it is hard to go past Drop bears as a good allrounder.

Gold bombers are the old faithful in hardbods, but then again so are green little lucifers.

I reckon I have caught the most barra trolling on classics in elton on chrome and guns and roses, casting would be bombers in that blue see through jobby with the orange underbelly. But that is definitely biased due to fishing some remote water out in the gulf around the numbulwar region.

It really depends on where you are and what you're doing ie flicking or trolling.

mako

Green works well in the Harbour, but also have had success with chrome/red, and pearl white.

cuddlescooper

After fishing with a mate steele, I would say that water colour or clarity dictates what colour lure to tie on. He has a knack for turning up to a place and reading the water extremly early and tieing on a lure that catches 90% of the fish straight away. This has been proven time and time again on our trips and I have experimented a lot with colours, actions and depth. I am fairly convinced that green is by far the best in the rivers. Coastal i like silver and black lures or gold as a general rule of thumb. In tanin water gold and black patterns rule although a white comes into play a lot more (Due to tarpon being more present). Oh and I like most lures with an orange belly.

In saying that it all seems to depend on what the fish are feeding on and depth, actions and retreive speed rather then colour come into play a lot in my opinion.

And I hate blue. Cant seem to catch a fish on the colour. Random considering so many people love it.

rumjungle

For the snake drains in Darwin and Bynoe harbour I cant go past a blue and gold spearhead (colour 66) or a terminator if I want the rattle.
Daly in the runoff gold bomber or the orange Nilsmaster invincible 6" I am resurecting some of my old Nilsies at the moment because they always worked long before all this fandangled plastic stuff came out.

And lately I have been experimenting with white shallow classics but the jury is still out.

shaggs

For a hard bodied lure I would have to say the most fish I have taken of all species would be on nilsies in one form or another in blue over silver and yellow (66)and gold bombers
Fishing for barra in the culvetts and streams and Shady most have been taken on DOA's in pearl with red head or squidgies in the same colour
Anything with a bit of red and black seems to work in the dirty water but the pearl and red more consistantly

Blinky

If I had to choose one colour only, I would go for GREEN........any lure, any fly, hard body or rubber, any water...........green for me.

Mudic

For me, a Gold bomber with most of the gold missing, so it is mostly white......

rumjungle

[quote="shaggs"]For a hard bodied lure I would have to say the most fish I have taken of all species would be on nilsies in one form or another in blue over silver and yellow (66)

Gee Shaggs ya forgot about the little bit of red (bleeding mullet) just behind the bib!

seano

Green and gold for today

nomad

It's Australia Day so it's gotta be green and gold.
Green first in both hard bodies followed by gold bombers, then bleeding mullet
Softies, silver

Beaten to it by seano

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