Colored Hooks

[DDSBYDAY]

How many of you think colored hooks  make a difference?  I will use them time to time but have not seen where they make any real noticable difference.  I will also use colored walking sinkers from time to time and would say this can make a difference.   I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

[MTCOMMER]

I use red colored hooks on most of my shiny spoons and also my swedish pimples (during ice fishing) - I havent really noticed a difference ice fishing, but this year I have caught more pike with my silver spoon when it has had the red treble on it compared to the regular chrome.
With my jigs and other set-ups I wouldnt think the colored hook would make a difference since most of the bait is covering it anyways... thats just my thought though.

[Mayfly]

Color undeniably makes a difference. Its just like a crankbait, jig or any other lure. This last week a pink hook out fished the boat almost every day. Go to a lake like Mille Lacs where it does make a difference and everyone put on a different color hook and you will see a difference in who catches what.

[corny13]

I agree with MNO... some lakes it does make a big difference....BTW have switched out most of your ATI's with red hooks..

[Cody Gruchow]

yes colors do make a difference. my favorite is chart.. no matter the day neon yellow(chartruese) then close behind is the red hooks and i did test this out most recently also on my (nameless lake) were we have been catching tons of pike and bass on regular brown circle hooks, then the fish just shut down all together then i threw on a red hook, and lets just say by the end of the day the hook wasnt red anymore 

[sandmannd]

Color makes a big difference in my book. Chartruese and Red are my main hooks. I also carry black, nickle, green, orange, pink and white. You just never know what they may hit on. Now, size makes a difference too. I always used to use #2 hooks for walleye till I started learning what I was doing. Now, it's all #6 and even #8 hooks. Small works very well and upped my hook rate.

[DDSBYDAY]

My next question would be why does it make a difference?  I still read everything I can find on this subject.   What I have come up with is the color range walleye see best is orange-green-yellow-red.  The walleye has a light reflector in the eye ball itself allowing it an amplified view in darker water.  The red color has a fairly long wavelenght that will be totally refracted at a fairly shallow depth.  (depends on the water clarity and angle of the light rays.)  Does pink work better on the big pond on a given day because the hook disappears given the conditions or is it an attractant.  The lake I fish most of the time the color is purple.  Crappies too. Purple and black.  This would be seen to a walleye as a sillouette even in the brightest light.  Are we trying to use the hook as an attractor or make it disappear?

[MTCOMMER]

Well, I have never used any other colored hooks except for red.  I always invisioned the red hook with mimic and injured fish - blood. Like on my chome spoon, I have a red treble to indicate a wounded shad.  IDK if it really works that way, but it seems to catch more fish that usual. 

[Buster]

I also think color does matter. On Vermillion 3 yrs back our boat used red #6 hooks and the other boat that lindy'd right behind us near a small island used plain and our boat outfished them 6-0 following same gps trail.