I have had this problem with a number of my lures and it's not a issue of lure color . I have found that each time this has happen it has always been a case where a painted lure was in contact with a soft plastic lure for some time . Many of these new soft plastics seem to in time to release a oil like film which seems to be more so when it's hot out. That film reacts with the paint on the painted lures where they make contact , the paint in that area is soft and gummy and wipes right-off. About 1 1/2 years ago once I realized this I reorganized all my lure boxes and now keep all the soft plastics together and away any painted lures and that took care of that problem. But I found that even the soft plastics can have a reaction with other soft plastics,but most seem to be find together. I have only one case where the soft plastics have reacted and I like what happen, it's like I have a custom lure now and I catch fish with it. This is what happen, I had my black and silver shallow invader which the front is hard plastic and the tail soft plastic and put a hot-head spinner grubtail lure on top of it. The hot-head lure grubtail is black but has a very intense chartuse glitter in about 1/3 of the tail, the chartuse from the hot-head bled into the soft plastic tail of the s. invader not only where they made contact , but through the entire soft tail while having no effect on the front hard plastic of the lure. Now I have a black-silver and chartuse tail s. invader and like I said it catches fish. Infact the KID C. went out and bought the same s. invader and I loaned him that same chart. hot-head lure so he could do the same thing to his invader and it worked great. I found this out by accident with my s. invader , but now I have used that same hot-head to do not only the KIDS lure but also one of the two clear soft plastic Charlie lures that I have , now I have a chartuse Charlie end to end, it looks neat. But like I said this hot-head lure is the only one I have seen to have this effect. Anyway as long as you keep the soft plastics away from the painted lures you should'nt have anymore problems and just an example of a soft plastic that I have seen to have very bad film on is the Storm Wide-eye swim bate, I have 3 in the 9" length, once you take the bate out of package after buying it the film gets all over your hands, I put all of those storm bates in a plastic bag before put them in my lure box so that film dose'nt get on everything. Chuck L.