Where does white fit in the walleye colour palette?

As the quiet workhorse. Gold, orange and chartreuse sit on the walleye's colour-sensitivity peaks, but white works on a different principle: it reflects whatever light is left, so a white or pearl bait reads as a bright, high-contrast minnow in the dim water where walleye feed. That is why white and pearl paddletails, white twister tails on jigs and pearl-bellied minnowbaits are staples, especially where the forage is pale — shiners, smelt, young shad, ciscoes. White also takes paint well: a white body with a chartreuse or orange head combines contrast with a peak colour. Its limit is the same as any colour's: in truly dark or muddy water glow or a black silhouette can beat it. Reach for white in clear to lightly stained water at low light.

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