I've found many different colors available. It really depends on what waterbody your on up here. Greens, browns even blacks Ive purposely sought out and caught many crayfish, due to me being a jig and pig fan, and I tie my own jigs. Its like a quest at every new lake I fish, to seek out what they look like,.. I can honestly say there really isn't a prevailing color, so to speak. Not just color though, size and shape differs too,..slim and slender or stout and fat, long pincers, short ones etc. some so big they look like short lobsters. Kinda depends on where you are. what lake, pond, river.
I'm minutes from Plymouth Ma, there's a long history in this area, alot has gone on, river dams, bogs, old farms fertilizers, chemicals, etc. This may have had some impact seeing that their environments were drastically changed so much. Some of the larger watershed areas will have similar bugs, but most around here? vary,
Like this,.... I'll use a example pond Putnamville res. in Danvers.
By the Dams rip rap you will catch a stout darker brown colored crayfish with some dark green and a few orange spots on the big roundish pincers,...flip it over and its mostly that dark brown fading into a light sand color, over in the weed beds you'll catch a much lighter colored skinny bug almost a sandy color mixing with orange and blueish highlights, on its thin short pincers, in the extreme northwest corner theres scattered rock flats, kinda in between the other two,... medium sized but the color more mimics the surrounding rocks color. so, i guess you could say its a brown pond. Couple towns away in Lynn,.. sluice pond is a green pond. In between these two ponds there's Browns pond in south Peabody, they are mostly blue in there
Best bet?, Ya cant go wrong with black
