Pumpkin Seed color, any luck ??

I realize you already know what I have to say below, but some readers might need the extra facts in this post.

When bass are feeding over green plants I use watermelon variants mostly, but when bare-bottom crawling a worm I switch to the earth colors like pumpkin to more closely match crawfish and/or bottom colors. Check the livewell often to observe any meals chucked up by your bass, then lock in on those colors. I like fishing something they are already looking for. Bass find the camo baits by seeing the motion and hearing and feeling through the lateral lines.

2 feet of visibility ought to be good enough for pumpkin, especially if using small profile tungsten sinkers that let bass hear the rig easier until they can see it. I prefer to camouflage my worms to make it more natural, matching the environment, except in very low visibility water. Then I go to contrasting colors like black/blue, black/chartreuse, purple/chartreuse, etc.

I'm really happy with the variety of dye colors these days. Try using a cotton swab (Q-tip best, keeps a tight shape) to dab rows of chartreuse, orange, black, blue, green or red spots down each side of that pumpkinseed worm. That makes yours unique, something few bass have seen. I also sometimes slide a pumpkinseed or wild contrasting colored jig skirt to the middle of a Texas rigged worm (if thick enough) to simulate crawfish legs, then split the tail to make pinchers.

Jim

This is a picture of a Lunker bass caught at Lake Fork. He said he was using a pumpkin seed Zoom lizard, (6").