I reference the hitch I have caught in clear lake.

The colors in hitch vary greatly depending on size/age and season. Damn near any shad imitating rip bait resembles a hitch at one point in it's life or another. The standard green back/blue flash works fine. But if you want to imitate a more realistic look, you need to look further into the colors than some topical shade. There is depth and variation to the colors. What you call grey is really a lot of silver, some blue, a tinge of gold and a hint of purple, etc, etc.

Just like skin. So what color is skin?
Computer animators battled with it for years. It was the holy grail of CGI. As soon as the light changed, the "skin" looked all wrong.


Lucky Craft paints their lures 10 at a time and no more than two colors. So much for realism. Great baits though. They catch fish.

A custom hitch would have a dozen layers/colors. You mix them as you shoot the layers of color. My hitch and blue gill are like that. Both were given away at the Open. I don't have any pictures.