Black is one of my favorite colors especially for bluegills it's also been my favorite for crappie at times it's very deadly. for many years I used black with crank baits for bass black plastic worms has always been deadly along with everything else for warm water game fish it is one color that I deftly have in my tackle box every time I go out. a combination with black with other colors such as purple yellow and so forth and so on are good combinations when you are using black.