Today on Retro Basin, Color Selector Challenge, stick around. We are back on the creek, brought my buddy Brandon with me after the Guggen versus Cream Challenge. We decided to change it up a little bit today. We are doing a Color Selector Challenge. That's right, I've got a vintage Color Selector designed by Dr. Lauren Hill. Depending on stained, clear or muddy water, the color selector will tell you which color lure the bass are most likely to hit. In addition to our Color Selector Unit, I've got a box of vintage rebel redneck lizards. These are also designed by Dr. Lauren Hill and come in just about every color that the color selector would find. Let's see which one works. It's got three speeds, clear stained and muddy. And you've got to decide which it is. Obviously clear is clear. I can never tell stained from muddy. It looks like it's red, maybe a little pink, maybe a little maroon. So right in that quadrant, if this was clear it'd be green. Here's our tackle box of rebel redneck also designed by Dr. Lauren Hill. So I think Brandon, that's going to be the deal. Alright, first one on the Color Selector, man. Color selector. Oh my goodness! Oh, look at that fish, man. So Brandon, as you unhook that fish, we got to address some finalized video. Okay. Your hook set. Oh! Have you been working on that? That's how we're going to start our morning. We're going to start our morning. We get you three pounder, we're going to start talking about the hook set. Been working on it. Clearly, admittedly, you know, our friends on YouTube. They said you should be more manly with it. I don't know what that means technically, but were you more manly with this hook set? You know, I'm feeling better about that hook set. Alright, first one. When I was a kid, my number one color this bait was this guy. This sort of sparkle green with the red neck. Again, the color selector is not recommended in this color right now, but I've used it in the past before I even had a color selector, so we'll see. I'm trying my best not to fish fast. It is so hard when you know there's fish there, not to fish too fast. I am. I'm really trying not to. Alright, so we're taking a little fishing break, little taco break here. We've only got one so far, but it was in fact on the actual color selector choice, which is kind of cool. It was on that red orange pink kind of thing. That's true. And then Brandon switched to a googin because he just can't help himself. I don't know why he did that. I have for like a minute. It's sausage and chicken cheese, and we have a potato and cheese here. I'm just doing bacon and chicken cheese. I do a potato and a bacon. Double it up. Alright, awesome. We just checked the color selector and conditions have changed a little bit. The sun came out. As far as the colors that will be best, it said two options. It's basically either a black or blue. Switch brand and up. The color selector should be using black. And black was not cutting it. Switch to red. He was threatening to switch to a googin bait, so I gave the most googin like color that I could, which is this green pumpkin. There's a ton of fish cruising right in this little area. We're going to make a couple more casts with the blue that the color selector says. And I think we're going to switch. What's up? That's a nice little fish. Hey, I can spot him. He was cruising right there. Woo! Haha! Color selector strikes again. Nice little large mouth bass. I used to tear up some bass on farm ponds with this bad boy. There's a nice little creek bass. He was cruising. I saw him cruising around. He came up and popped it. Set the hook on him and actually got him in. Nice! Back in the studio. But before I talk about this guy, let me geek out just a little bit about this guy, Dr. Lauren Hill. What I think of some of the unsung heroes of bass fishing, I can't help but bring up Dr. Lauren Hill. He had a ton of great inventions at the time, many of which are still in use today. Here's an old class from Dr. Hill. This is called the Chowhound Crankbait. It's a diving crankbait with a little spinner on the bottom. Here's another invention from Dr. Hill, the snake tricks. It's a soft plastic designed to emulate a water snake, initially marketed by Bill Norman Loers. The snake tricks was later re-released by Bass Pro Shops under the avoidance behavior line. Speaking of avoidance behavior, this is a really cool line that Bass Pro Shops came out with, that were all Dr. Lauren Hill Loers, including the Chowhound, pretty sweet top water bait, this crankbait with a soft plastic tail, and this subsurface walking bait. The avoidance behavior Loers series reflects Dr. Hill's findings, and every style is designed to reproduce actual behavior and body movements exhibited by Frighten Pre. I love these things. And let's not forget this. The Dr. Lauren Hill fishing tree, one of the first man-made artificial structures out there that you can actually buy in a store and place in your own pond. Okay, thanks for letting me geek out a little bit. Now back to the reason that we're here, the color selector. After nine years of research, Dr. Hill discovered a range of 26 different colors that Bass could see best. To determine which of these 26 colors was most effective under different light and water conditions, Dr. Hill had a pretty ingenious experiment. He painted crawfish, different colors, placed him in a tank, and observed which crawfish were eaten by Bass under different conditions. The results of those experiments ultimately with the bassist for the color selector introduced by Lake Systems in 1984. The whole thing about the color selector craze is that almost every major lore manufacturer got on board, and they produced kits like this. There were even specially designed tackle boxes, so you can put in lures to match the different colors that you might find with the color selector. Now let's say you didn't actually have the right color lure on board, well Dr. Hill even had an answer for that. Check out this Select the Colored Kit, which came with three unpainted lures and markers, so you could color them yourself. And let's not forget my favorite bait, the Rebel Redneck. Now back to the question at the start of this video. Does this thing work? All right, first the bad when it comes to this. Yes, there are 26 separate colors that this thing will find, but any colors selected are branded lore, generally only came in one of six colors. Those are the six that we saw, the red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Go down the tackle aisle at Bass Pro Shops or Academy Sports today, and you will find about 90% of all soft plastics are in a green pumpkin or a watermelon red flag derivative. Arotically enough, on the full day that we fished with this thing, that color never came up. I joke that Brandon was having a little bit of Google withdrawal, but it's true. I was too. It's one of my favorite colors, and again, every time you put this thing in, it's sending you towards some really loud fluorescent, maybe non-natural color. Now for the positive. One of the biggest lessons I got from the color selected today was the fact that color does make a difference. We were fishing with the same lure all day, and the only variation we had were the color patterns. Absolutely, it made a difference, switching colors. Maybe it was the color of the color selected recommended. Maybe it was a different color. If nothing else, the color selected got me trying out colors that otherwise I would not use. That blue metal flake that I caught my fish on, there's no way I would have used that today. But, because this guy sent me in that direction, I did, and guess what? That caught the fish. We're looking at my reserve of old Dr. Lauren Hill lures. You can tell we're going to have some more color selected episodes coming up. In the comment section below, let me know your favorite oddball color. I caught one on that blue metal flake I did not expect to. Let me know what your most unique lure is that you catch fish on. Thanks for watching RetroBasson. If you enjoyed what you saw today, subscribe, hit that bell icon so you don't miss anything. And definitely, fish at old school.