What color are your balls?

[Ivan]

Seriously though...maybe I'm over-thinking this, but would like to hear some opinions

 

My cannon balls are covered with a yellow colored rubberized coating. I have caught plenty of fish using them including salmon, steelhead, lakers, pike, muskie, walleye, etc.  However, I'm wondering if another color may be better (less spooky to fish).  I know guys seem to like black or green dipseys.  What about cannon ball color?  Should I paint my yellow ones black? 

 

Thanks!

[TyeeTanic]

Blue .... it's been a while.

 

Just joking. Someone was bound to do that to you.   

 

My canon balls are black with silver flasher tape on the tails.  It is well known they act as attractors.

Somedays I hear colors work (silver), and others not.

 

Black is viewed as a neutral color, which is my preference, to take one less variable out of the equation.

[Sk8man]

Its only a factor for female fish

[steelydan]

chrome, chrome, chrome.

[Fish Hunter]

That is a mighty personal question.............

[turf]

We are all fishermen , except those lucky enough to get their wives involved the answer is blue lol

My downrigger balls are black though

[Gator]

Yeah, my first thought was "blue", too...glad to see that everybody else is on the same wavelength. We are all a bunch of pigs. Or so my wife told me this morning when I read her that "talking frog" joke on the Comics Corner page. This will only reinforce her opinion.

 

Who cares, though, the derby starts in a couple of days and I won't see her for two weeks. Plenty of time to make amends come September...prior to bow season 

Edited August 14, 2013 by Gator

[skipper19]

Yeah, my first thought was "blue", too...glad to see that everybody else is on the same wavelength. We are all a bunch of pigs. Or so my wife told me this morning when I read her that "talking frog" joke on the Comics Corner page. This will only reinforce her opinion.

Who cares, though, the derby starts in a couple of days and I won't see her for two weeks. Plenty of time to make amends come September...prior to bow season

Better be careful...that's why they are called "junk"...yours might end up in the "junk" yard...

Without the cables attached!

On second thought...offer to take her out for rocky mountain oysters!..that should make ammends, or might reinforce the swine annotations...Hmmmmm?

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[Sk8man]

All mine are black plastic/rubberized coated, but who really knows? To my knowledge the fish haven't been polled on it yet....Its kinda like the lady that dyes her hair "Only her hairdresser knows for sure"

Edited August 14, 2013 by Sk8man

[Fish Hunter]

Actually, I painted my torpedo shaped weights silver on the bottom/black on top, with adhesive red eyes.

I really do not know if that really helps, but I did that, and have touched them up that way as well.

Nervous energy/ambition, in the anticipation of the suspect that it could help.

Who the hell really knows..........? Not me.

[Jammer]

I had a chrome shark weight on my chute rigger that for years took less fish than my corners with black cannon weights. I just painted the shark black and have taken more hits per trip. So... I think maybe the chrome shark was "too much" and black is better.

JAM

[Ivan]

Thanks for the replies guys.  I guess I'll paint them black.

[Legacy]

 I guess I'll paint them black.