Jig Skirt Color. Are So Many Colors Necessary?

[RB 77]

Combinations of black, brown, and green get the call for me. I do like a little purple (PB N' J/ Purp Green) in the mix as well.

[Munkin]

As a slow moving bottom contact lure I think the color of the trailer can matter but the color of the skirt probably does not matter much. Drop one of your jigs in the kitchen sink and watch the strands float up and away from the trailer. Those individual strands do not present much color by themselves. I use round rubber in black & brown and black & blue and mix up the color and profile of the trailer.

 

 

That is either a Rusty or Virile craw (I forget right now) and they are a very common invasive crayfish here in Maryland. Because of that there might just be some brown/orange jigs in my tacklebox with green pumkin heads and trailers.

 

Allen

[basswrangler83]

We have 4 native species here, I looked up pictures on Google and saved them to my phone. Thought I might give that a try. Either way it'll be fun

[HoosierHawgs]

Haha, filling up a 496 big block isn't easy on the wallet. Neither is getting 8 mpg. That's not to mention the very hefty monthly payment.

Don't forget insurance...

[Bluebasser86]

I did like some others when I started tying my own baits and went crazy with jig color combinations. Some of them caught fish, but I would usually turn to my favorites that were the best producers and ended up with a ton of baits I didn't use. Now I have my handful of colors I use, but instead I have those chosen colors in a wide assortment of head styles and sizes, which has proven to be a much more effective system. 

[basswrangler83]

Bluebasser, I hope to get to that point too. I'd like to have a 2 or 3 confidence colors

[kickerfish1]

Yes they are necessary! I have 14 jig boxes and at certain times of the year and at certain lakes one will outproduce others. Generally 5 colors would suffice but jigs are my weakness.

[basswrangler83]

I hear you, mine too. They're just fun to make and fun to fish

[primetime]

Brown, Black and blue, black and red, watermelon green/orange for flipping Jigs, also carry some white & black and chart, but I use a brown jig with green pumpkin trailer & black/blue gp trailer 75-90% of time and it always seems to work fine...I carry about 20 colors, but I always have a punch skirt in black and blue and a brown jig....Brown usually gets the nod, may go different colors on trailers and styles of trailer....

 

But my main Casting Jigs and flipping jigs are 90% brown skirts, 4-5" Green Pumpkin Red Flake or Gp Black flake Chomper's twin tail grubs or GYB Grubs...Simple and effective, an Arkie Style jig is all I really need if I could only have one, good for swimming, grass and everything else....You can alter color with trailers big time, so if you want flash on a brown jig to mimic shad just add a white ice grub.

[Nolan Hunter]

I throw 3 colors

Black and blue

Watermelon red

White

In my personal experience with jigs you can never go wrong with natural. Don't make fishing harder than it is by over thinking things

[basswrangler83]

Over thinking is my specialty

[KayakBasser]

     Just stick to natural colors. watermelons,pumpkins ect.

[the reel ess]

Black/blue is not a natural color. But it's the one that's on almost everyone's list. Last time out I caught a couple on a black/blue Speed Craw. I've never seen a black craw except on the tackle aisle.