Do orange, yellow or glow-in-the-dark baits do anything for largemouth?

Orange and yellow, yes, in supporting roles. Orange sits toward the red end of the bass's red–green colour axis, and it is the colour of a crayfish's underside and claw tips — an orange-bellied craw crankbait or a jig with orange strands is a cold-water, pre-spawn standard. Yellow lights up both of the bass's cone types, so it reads bright rather than dark; in practice it shows up as bluegill and perch patterns and as the yellow in chartreuse-and-white skirts, more than as a solid colour. Glow is the odd one out. A night largemouth finds a bait by silhouette against the surface and by thump on the lateral line, and the proven night baits are black; glow paint is not part of mainstream bass practice and nothing suggests it helps.

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