Looking For A Specific Color Soft Plastic Craw/creature

[airborne_angler]

Got a large Live Crawdad from the local lake and want to match the hatch. The color of the Crawdad is like a rusty brown with light blue pinchers. This obviously an adult as the smaller ones are like a grey/light green pumpkin throughout.

I'm thinking for an adult Craw the best color would be a pumpkinseed with blue claws/appendages,and for a juvenile a green pumpkin or pumpkinseed throughout.

Anyone know where I can get a bait in the adult colors I've listed above?

[Big-O]

My advice is find a craw that closely matches the basic color and size, then touch it up with a q-tip and jj's...

www.ragetail.com

[Cincy Bach 29]

I personally use Strike King plastics most of the time. They have amazing actions and their color patterns are good. There is something about that darn coffee scent too that buys you an extra second especially when they are finicky. But try a rage tail lobster out. I'd go with something like the Okeechobee craw for the bigger craws you were talkign about, possibly the falcon lake color and dip the claws in some blue spike it dye. for the little guys you mentioned you can't go wrong with summer craw.....mostly pumpkin with a bit of chartruse in it. I rig these with a pegged tungsten sinker on a 5/0 wide gape worm hook. Also try the rage craws on a jig.

[smalljaw67]

  On 5/14/2012 at 5:46 PM, airborne_angler said:

Got a large Live Crawdad from the local lake and want to match the hatch. The color of the Crawdad is like a rusty brown with light blue pinchers. This obviously an adult as the smaller ones are like a grey/light green pumpkin throughout.

I'm thinking for an adult Craw the best color would be a pumpkinseed with blue claws/appendages,and for a juvenile a green pumpkin or pumpkinseed throughout.

Anyone know where I can get a bait in the adult colors I've listed above?

I make a finesse jig that I had a pic of on this site, anyway I use a craw for it made by River Rock Baits, it is called a Jakes Craw and he makes the colors you listed, I get a color called summer craw and another called blue craw that isn't on the site, the summer craw matches the craws here in summer and that is a dark pumpkin brown with burnt orange claws and the blue craw matches the craws in early spring, and that is green pumpkin with blue claws. The fish haven been killing it this year, a very good craw with a natural fall.