I’ve pretty much stopped using chartreuse tipped tails with soft plastics like DSL or BA. I think the chartreuse is either a neutral at best but more often a negative factor towards getting strikes and very rarely a positive.
Lately, I have been tossing Big Papa pure in DSL or Chicken of the C in the longer and smaller paddle tail and the pure color, no chartreuse. Hammertime, Green Moon are other favorites.
Fish really don’t need the chartreuse tail to find the bait even in somewhat opaque to mostly opaque water. If anything, many of these fish have memories of being hooked previously on chartreuse soft plastics and will shy away from them, anyway, that’s my working hypothesis. Fishing side by side in a boat with chartreuse tipped tail using fisherman or on the same trip in kayaks fishing the same water, non-chartreuse, more natural colors tend to win out again and again.
Anyone else shying away from the chartreuse?