Jig Color Help

[WiregrassRiverRat]

I fish in South Alabama, mostly eufaula and seminole.. I dont have many jigs and I am about to order some quality hand tied jigs from a buddy.. Say I want Ten jigs to start..I need some swimming=3, brush=4, and football=3. I am thinking black and blue, brown and purple, green and brown, and maybe PB&J or something.. if you guys were getting that breakdown of 3,4,3 .. what colors and weights would you recommend.. I mostly fish blow downs and a CRAP TON of docks. and do some night fishing..

 

thanks in advance

[alexandboi]

I like to keep my colors simple that way I won't have to buy different colored trailers. Majority of my jigs are green pumpkin, sometimes with brown, or black/black and blue. However, for swim jigs I like something brighter and with a little flash. I feel like 3/8oz is the most versatile jig weight, but this might be more of a personal preference. 

[bmlum415]

Agreed just keep it simple. I fish shad patterned with or without chartreuse swim jigs, at night or stained water I throw black and blue, for any situation with me trying to imitate crawfish I'll use a brown jig with an assortment of trailers and occasionally I'll use a bluegill patterned jig.

[Arv]

These guys pretty much said it. Green, brown, black/blue. Swim jigs, you might add a shad and bluegill color.

[WRB]

I fish in South Alabama, mostly eufaula and seminole.. I dont have many jigs and I am about to order some quality hand tied jigs from a buddy.. Say I want Ten jigs to start..I need some swimming=3, brush=4, and football=3. I am thinking black and blue, brown and purple, green and brown, and maybe PB&J or something.. if you guys were getting that breakdown of 3,4,3 .. what colors and weights would you recommend.. I mostly fish blow downs and a CRAP TON of docks. and do some night fishing..

thanks in advance

PB&J is the same as brown & purple. Do you have some idea of what the crawdad colors are?

Way back in the dark ages ('69) I fished an All American tournament on Eufaula and caught all my bass on purple jigs with brown pork trailer, so purple brown may still work there. I would think about making up June bug; dark purple with green, this is a good spring crawdad and bluegill color, depending on the trailers you choose. Also consider using flat living rubber skirts in lieu of silicone skirts as long as they are hand tied.

Adding color by using the trailers with metal flakes for highlites. I would also select one jig head design like the brush head.

Tom

[Catt]

Black-N-Blue

Black Neon (most natural crawfish color)

Watermelon or Green Pumpkin

Dozen - 4 ea.

[smalljaw67]

The brush jig you'll want 2 black and blue, and then 2 PB&J, the football jig would be 1 each of green pumpkin and orange, solid black, and PB&J. The swim jigs go with more spinnerbait colors,  like white and chartreuse, all white, and blue white and chartreuse, that is how I would go.

[ww2farmer]

Green pumpkin, and black/blue. That's all I need.

[roadwarrior]

I would add a Falcon Lake Craw and match it with the Rage Tail Craw or Lobster.

 

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[Blake Andlaura Logan]

I am on the chattochee river as we speak. I have tried several different areas and can't find the fish water is at 66 degrees visibility is at six to eight inches color is light green. where are the bass, grass, ledges, flats, points, channel or up in the creeks.

[Siebert Outdoors]

"black and blue, brown and purple, green and brown, and maybe PB&J"

 

These are the basics and can not go wrong with those.

[Bankbeater]

Around here the colors that work are, black, black/blue, orange/brown, and watermelon.  This time of year I worry about the presentation more than the color.

[WRB]

Alabama most common crawdad is the one that Roadwarrior posted a link to, red swamp crawdad. During the colder water months this crawdad looks like the photo, they reddish black with a tan underside. We have this crawdad out west as a transplant, along with a few others. The swamp crawdad tends to be lighter colored in neutral pH water in our deep clear structured lakes, reddish brown. When a crawdad molts, outgrows it's shell the color tends to be greenish brown and darkens as it hardens.

In more acidic water with lots of vegetation, the colors are similar to the reddish black shown,

This begs the question; why is black with blue so popular when black with red is closer to this common crawdad coloration? The answer maybe that 90% of the bass anglers fish black/ blue, the common choice presented to the bass.

Tom

[WiregrassRiverRat]

Alabama most common crawdad is the one that Roadwarrior posted a link to, red swap crawdad. During the colder water months this crawdad looks like the photo, they reddish black with a tan underside. We have this crawdad out west as a transplant, along with a few others. The swamp crawdad tends to be lighter colored in neutral pH water in our deep clear structured lakes, reddish brown. When a crawdad molts, outgrows it's shell the color tends to be greenish brown and darkens as it hardens.

In more acidic water with lots of vegetation, the colors are similar to the reddish black shown,

This begs the question; why is black with blue so popular when black with red is closer to this common crawdad coloration? The answer maybe that 90% of the bass anglers fish black/ blue, the common choice presented to the bass.

Tom

Interesting to think about.. thanks! I pretty well have it figured out for the brush and football colors.... the swim jig may take some thinking