It's all about the Dye

So the summer months are upon us and the time has changed to where we're fishing later into the evening than we were before the bass have just about finished spawning here in Florida so that leaves the bluegill spawn to come next.  You can already hear the little panfish popping the bonnets on my lake and every now and then see a bass go after the little guys for an easy meal.

Every lure manufacturer has a color or contrast in their soft plastic to fit your application but right now is the time for that extra added tint of flash and scent because of the bream spawn.  Orange and blue together on certain baits during the bluegill spawn can be a deadly combo on creature baits. 

I have been fishing with Dyeing2Fish dyes since last September and have had extremely good luck with their dyes and right now this where that comes into play.  The summer months in my opinion put the bass in a laid-back mood, so you have to give them a little something extra to open up to. 

I rely a lot of Chartreuse Garlic Bread and Red Garlic Bread from Dyeing2Fish to add that extra scent and flash to my bait.  Dipping the tail of a soft plastic jerkbait in red and gives it that wounded flash of blood and the garlic scent helps make the fish hold on longer.   I believe the garlic puts off the scent that closely resembles that of the panfish when they are putting off that strong odor in the water.  I own about every scent and color of dye available from Dyeing2Fish, Garlic Bread, Boiled Crawfish, Shadtastic, Grape Jelly and Sweet Licorice each have their place in my box. 

When I dye my baits I rely on my Dyesafe Containment system, a plastic containment box with foam inserts that holds your dye in place for safe dyeing application. 

Recently I did a test with a Zoom Speed Worm and Dyeing2Fish Grape Jelly Dye to see how long the dye would lost in the worm.  I dyed the worm on March 14th and just two days the worm finally lost its scent of the grape jelly, so that says a lot for the scent holding up that amount of time in the worm, and the Chartreuse Dye is still coloring the worm. 

You have to play around and find out what colors work best for you.  The green pumpkins, watermelons, and white colors seem to be the best that I have found for dipping with. 

Watermelon Candy Red has been my favorite bait color since I found it a few years back and it has been very productive when fishing on the river systems with Dyeing2Fish Blue Crawfish dye.  The blue crabs that are in abundance on our tidal river systems seem to be a main course meal for these bass and adding a little bit of the blue dye with craw fish scent gives that extra edge.

Even clear dye has its place in my tackle box.  Back in March I caught two fish over 5 lbs in the same trip dipping big Zoom Ol'Monster worms in clear Garlic Bread dye just to give them that they garlic scent and the fish were hard fitting and devoured the worm.