Jig Colors

[tylerwyp]

I've seen a lot of topics based around jigs but haven't been able to find one about color preferences. So, I am goin to make some of my own skirts and am really curious what color combinations people like on their jigs. Thanks in advance for your help!

[endless]

Seems the most common are black and blue and PB&J.

[BassThumb]

You can't go wrong with either black/blue, junebug, or anything green pumpkin.

[War Eagle 44]

I'm a big fan of the summer craw type colors as well as darker greens with a little orange mixed in. Browns, either by itself or with some orange or green mixed in, possibly both. I know this will be against the vast majority of jig fishermen but I'm not a huge black and blue fan.

 

My favorite color is this one, it's hand tied by a local maker, he doesn't list colors on his baits so I just refer to it as infection because thats the color sweet beaver trailer that matches it so well is called.

   

[Nitrofreak]

This is one topic you will get a lot of answers too.

 

Me personally I start with two colors, black, and green.

 

I want the jig to come as close to whatever the forage is, if it's sunfish, then it gets purples and oranges added to the green, cray fish then reds and browns and so on.

 

Blacks stay black or black and blues, when I fish dirty or deep water or it's heavy overcast outside.

 

 

This one I just added a little chart to the otherwise prodominatly black jig for the shady areas I was fishing.

[ww2farmer]

Years of trial and error have led me to only needing and using two colors on flipping and football jigs. Black/blue, and green/brown. For swimming jigs I use chart. sexy shad, and bluegill.

[00 mod]

"00 Modbug" 

 

I have tied it for a while now, but you can now get it made here.

 

http://www.siebertoutdoors.com/index.php/storm-series

 

Jeff

[deep]

These two colors work well for me usually.

 

 

 

[tylerwyp]

These two colors work well for me usually.

 

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Those look great! If u don't mind me asking what colors are in that assuming u made em?

[deep]

Those look great! If u don't mind me asking what colors are in that assuming u made em?

 

I wish I had the talent LOL. No I didn't make them,

 

The first one is a Booyah Baby Boo jig; the color is Black/ Black Neon/ Pumpkin (at least that's what the pack says).

The second is a custom color tied by Dominic/ Backwater4. I forget the exact composition, but I think it's green, brown, black, red, blue and yellow strands in the ratio 20:20:5:5:5:5.

 

I'm partial to a green-brown base color.

[Brian Needham]

green pumpkin (with a few strands orange)

PBJ

black and blue

 

those are the 3 you will find everyone uses......you will find variations but they will always lead you back to these 3

[LgMouthGambler]

Black/blue. Green/brown. Green/black. Pumpkin/black.

[tnbassfisher]

Greens, browns, and black/blue

[Jake P]

Brown, green, orange, black, blue. Not in that order. Mainly black & blue and green pumpkin.

For swim jigs I use Shad colors or sunfish colors. Mainly a variation of green pumpkin or a variation of white/silver.

[kickerfish1]

I use the standard 3 but have had lots is success with which is basically a green pumkin/blue or Okeechobee craw color. After that sprayed grass seems to be very good.

For swim jigs I prefer bluegill and baby bass patterns.

[Bluebasser86]

These two colors work well for me usually.

 

 

 

That first one is similar to one of my favorite colors

[Teal]

You are going to get alot of standard answers. But I want to add 2 colors that are variation of core three answers that have become pretty standard for me. PBJ and the Occochobee craw colors. Now every lure maker has their own version but I have found that these are excellent jig colors that really match both bream/sunfish and craws.

I was gonna give the standard answer like everybody else but decided I would go a step further and give you the two that IMO are now standards in my box.

[Raul]

Any color is fine as long as it is black.

[WRB]

What skirt materials are you planning to use, silicone or living rubber?

My suggestion is trap some crawdads where you fish and study the colors while they are alive in a glass jar with water. Colors can be regionally or lake to lake. If everyone is fishing a black and blue jig, then any bass caught. Will be on black and blue jigs! That doesn't mean black and blue is the most effective color, the bas reacted to the only color jig presented to them.

The vast majority of crawdads are basically brown with red/green highlights, depending on where they located, you can't go wrong with those colors to start with. Black is a high contrast color, so black with blue/green/purple is also good where bluegill and crappie are forage prey for bass.

You can really get carried away easily making up jig skirts, so be warned!

Tom