Why reds and blacks are never good crawdad colors

[CCbass]

I fished a local lake for 15 years, flipping was the main stay, 2 inch visibility all the time. The best colors were brown or amber or green or orange or a combitation of those. Tried red and back over the years but not much success compared to the other colors, even tough you caught crawdads while flipping. All huge, mostly red and black and about 6 to 7 inches, crawdads are the major food intake for the bass. Tie this into a green sunfish I had in a tank in my home for years. He lived very happily with a 6,7 inch crawdad ( Black and red ) for a year or so. The sunfish never bothered the crayfish, unless I did not feed him for extended periods of time. Even then he would only lash out with a gab or to at the crawfish, they were in fact almost the same size. One day I came home and saw the shell from the crawfish, he molted, I looked around to see where he was. No dice, then I noticed my sunfish, so fat you could see white between his scales. When crawfish molt they are greenish/brown, the sunfish saw this and ate a prey almost his size because he had an advantage. Just an observation I thought I would share.