What's your theory?

[RiverBoy]

Just wondering what you're thought process is when you decide to pair a hootchie pattern with a flasher?
Myself, I tend to try and match them, purple haze flasher and purple haze hootchie for example. Or green flasher and greenish hootchie. I have no idea if this more or less effective. Anyone want to lend their opinion? Not looking for your fave combo; rather just trying to assess the theory behind your selections. Thanks in advance

 

[Slabby20]

I've got my favorite flasher colors/patterns and my favorite hootchie color/patterns. I personally don't even think about needing to match them up.

 

[Gear'n'beer!]

I tend to match lures to flashers to a degree when winter fishing. I'm a bait fisherman in the summer though. Not sure why I match in the winter...... Appeals to my cdo nature

 

[CVmike]

Personally I find myself the cleanest, best looking flasher in the box and use it steady. But my box only really contains red and purple. I never really bother changing up my flasher. If I cycle through all my lures try various leader lengths and im still not catching fish then maybe I'd consider changing the flasher but when that happens its usually a good indicated to go home and make myself a hot rum.

 

[Gear'n'beer!]

Hot rummmmmm
Ever try a good bourbon toddy?

 

[Karma-Kazi]

Stopped using them inline since I found out how much more fun it is without a flasher. I haven't used hootchies since. Matching seemed pointless. I just used the the same glow flasher in the winter and the UV and gold in the summer.

One flasher all last year before going without it. That was green onion UV. IMHO one of the best ones made!

-KK

 

[Duffer]

The only combo I stick to is purple and gold with blue meanie UV hootchie. The rest I don't match.

 

[searun]

I think it's been a loooong winter, time better spent going for a good scotch and focus on tying some gear instead of worrying about matching flashers with hoochies. Honestly, taking it to that level is over thinking it. These fish have a brain the size of a pea. It ain't rocket surgery.

 

[spring fever]

. It ain't rocket surgery.

I love it-rocket surgery-you must be into the scotch. How bout We ain't makin gun barrels!!!

 

[Tide Up]

This ain't brain- science either

The guy posts a legitimate question from his perspective and you stain him for it. What gives?

Lot's of guys for sure prefer specific flashers and combos probably as much as anything they like the aesthetics

I'm lovin the Purple Haze variety and I have convinced myself it out fishes other flashers when used with a purple haze teaser head but more than anything it looks dead sexy up against my black gel coat on the Striper

 

[Finished Business]

Kinetic Tape + UV hoochie

 

[wishiniwasfishin1]

Gold Betsy and any flavour of green hootchie...mostly like the darker greens..

 

[RiverBoy]

I think it's been a loooong winter, time better spent going for a good scotch and focus on tying some gear instead of worrying about matching flashers with hoochies. Honestly, taking it to that level is over thinking it. These fish have a brain the size of a pea. It ain't rocket surgery.

Usually I start with the Auchentoshan 3 wood. Then I tie rigs. Then more three wood. Then I start feeling like my brain is the size of a pea. Got on to tying some custom skirts, and it thought I would pose the question.
A guide buddy told me you can fish whatever you want, as long as it's green. This is what prompted my question.

 

[TheHurtLocker]

Purple haze flasher or glow green flasher with a green and glow hoochie or a black and glow hoochie. Lots of guys talk about using UV or glow flashers in the early morning and later in the evening, but switch to a flasher that has the same types of colour as the fish they are catching when its the brightest out. Hoochies and spoons on that try and mimic the bait they are feeding on. I don't really care if the bra and panties don't match, I've always given any combo a try.

 

[Da Bay Bye]

I am new to the fishing here on the West Coast (about a year now) so some of the flasher names might not be correct or my methods. I use either a green flasher or an army truck (one side has some green/blue color) or a white one and I tend to use just hootchies. The hootchies are either green, blue or white colors and are on 4 foot leaders. I have not tried shorter leaders yet. If nothing is happening for about an hour, I try another hootchie color. I have 2 down riggers so I run one about 60-100 feet and the other is 150-200 feet plus. I tend to run my lines about 30-40 feet behind the ball. Time of day or weather conditions, I fish the same each time. So far it seems to work.

 

[searun]

Not trying to dump on thread question. Seriously, I do think you match the flasher to the water conditions, but that's as far as it goes. What I'm dragging behind that thing is largely a function of what the fish are on at any given time. If you are stressing about matching any particular hoochie with a flasher, I do honestly think there's far better things to be chasing down....like a good scotch.

 

[Dogbreath]

Last week I saw some great looking Hootchies @ PN&T in Steveston Village they'd look great behind some of the new Flashers Nikka has but I doubt they'd catch any more fish than what I use now.

 

[Hookin'up]

A lot of them are designed to catch fisherman

 

[JAC]

Leave the hootchie in the tackle box, green and gold flasher with anchovy behind it works for me.

 

[westburg]

I am new to the fishing here on the West Coast (about a year now) so some of the flasher names might not be correct or my methods. I use either a green flasher or an army truck (one side has some green/blue color) or a white one and I tend to use just hootchies. The hootchies are either green, blue or white colors and are on 4 foot leaders. I have not tried shorter leaders yet. If nothing is happening for about an hour, I try another hootchie color. I have 2 down riggers so I run one about 60-100 feet and the other is 150-200 feet plus. I tend to run my lines about 30-40 feet behind the ball. Time of day or weather conditions, I fish the same each time. So far it seems to work.

If you have 2 other rod holders and 2 more rods, try doubling up. hook your line up and drop er down to 20 feet, put on another clip and send er 5 feet from the bottom. On the other side, do the same but go up 20 feet from the bottom. your chances quadruple. Having a quadruple header is the most epic thing you can ever experience. BTW, I always match the colours.