I think that any color hook works well in almost any situation, it's nice to have a red hook on drop shot just to have the added confidence that you can catch 1 extra cull fish in a tourney on a tough day, but black in reality, works just as well. But to say that that fish will eat any hook or bait all day every day is almost unrealistic. If a young 1/2 bass chases down a bluegill and trys to eat it and gets stung by stines on its back then naturally that 1/2 bass would most like shy away from bluegill for a long time, or if a bass goes to eat a crawdad and gets pinched on its nose, it will most likely shy away from a crawdad for a little while. Personally i think that it is same thing with as senko on a red hook and the bass eats that senko and immediatly gets nailed and is pulled 30 feet out of water, its gonna have the reation next time that, that red hook on that senko thing causes pain. Bass are probably smarter than a scientist or a regular fisherman would think.

andrew