Have saved and referenced this thread for a while.

Headed to the Chadeluers this fall and wondering what colors would be good to throw this time of year? The water is typically clear and we've thrown a lot of white and chartreuse during our summer trips.

Any recommended falls colors for that part of the Gulf?

Folks have covered the gamut here.

I will add this.....on the more plyable plastics like DSL, I like a screw lock jughead like the saltwater assassin 1/16 or 1/8 chartreuse head with red eyes. Jay Watkins showed us those years ago (would only give us one each when leaving the boat on a long wade and then regale us with tales of him getting thousands for free) he's a character and a ton of fun to fish/BS with, BTW. Not as fun as McBride though.

One more tip, especially between Rockport and Corpus: the Nortan sand eel jr can be deadly when worked slowly on the bottom in the winter. I have caught over 50 trout in an hour on one sand eel jr that looked like chewed up bubblegum when I was done. Many times on a hard 20 or 30MPH North wind, 3 of us would do that wading, all casting into a space smaller than 50 feet by 50 feet, as cold front winds emptied nearby flats through a gut. The trout were stacked in there like cordwood. The gut was maybe 6 feet deep and the surrounding flat was 3 feet. That's all the difference it took for them to find that deeper water and hunker down. We've had many epic days like that when others are at the coffee shop b/c it's too cold/windy/miserable to fish.