There?are no hard and fast rules for what color and what depth.? Use the general rules of thumb as a guide - if it's a mid-visibility situation perhaps you want a natural color with a touch of a higher visibility color in it.

Food Value

Being a fisheries biologists, Ken has unique insight into what bass feed on, why they eat, and when.? The food value scale indicates what forage (food) is of more nutritional value:

#1 - crayfish, crawfish, crawdad ...you get it
#2 - shad and similar varieties
#3 - sunfish, bluegill, perch, and similar varieties

Because bass are opportunistic predators they will eat what they find - but they know a better meal when they see it.? This can be taken one of two ways, either use something that they are used to seeing, or try to intice them to react to a golden food opportunity.

Season

Spring brings out the crayfish crawling around the rocks looking for a good place to have some little crayfish.? You can find crayfish in mud, sand, but given a choice they like the rocks, the rocks present a great place to find a cave for mating.? Crayfish offer a early spring feeding pattern for bass pre-spawn through post-spawn.