How to match the hatch on yellow perch

[Comfortably Numb]

When I lived up north Firetiger was a great Perch imitator.

 

In cranks, most companies offer a Perch color or bluegill will work fine too.

 

Fishingskirts.com   Get the BOSS heads and either premade skirts or make your own from the tabs they sell. Easy to do with the cheap lil tool they sell and fun.

 

Here is one I made from tabs.

 

 

 

These are great around lillies and weeds. Rapala weedless shad

 

[FishDewd]

2 hours ago, Munkin said:

 

You sure that is a Balsa bait? It looks like a early 70's floating Smithwick Rogue. Does it have ROGUE in block letters on the belly by the front hook?

 

Allen

If you plan on ordering a lot of them just order directly from Jim at Cast Industries as they make them for LurePartsOnline.

 

Allen

As far as I know it doesn't. I've looked and never noticed any wording on it. But I will look again when I get home. It does feel like wood to me and it has a slight rattle when shaken.

[FishDewd]

3 hours ago, FishDewd said:

As far as I know it doesn't. I've looked and never noticed any wording on it. But I will look again when I get home. It does feel like wood to me and it has a slight rattle when shaken.

Confirmed it has no lettering. Also, I now see obvious signs that the bill was glued in cause there is some residue around the edges. I bet it works well though, I just need to learn how to work a jerkbait.

 

@Comfortably Numb That is a good looking jig. I may have to try my hand at making on like that at some point, but I am thinking I'd like some yellow on the bottom rather than orange. I love the black striping in that skirt.

[Comfortably Numb]

That's whats best makin your own skirts. You can add as many strands of what you want.

[FishDewd]

On 6/21/2018 at 1:40 PM, Comfortably Numb said:

When I lived up north Firetiger was a great Perch imitator.

 

In cranks, most companies offer a Perch color or bluegill will work fine too.

 

Fishingskirts.com   Get the BOSS heads and either premade skirts or make your own from the tabs they sell. Easy to do with the cheap lil tool they sell and fun.

 

Here is one I made from tabs.

 

 

 

These are great around lillies and weeds. Rapala weedless shad

I've been looking at swim jig heads and tabs. I am wanting something similar to what you have here with the black striations in the threads, but I am wanting a little different colors scheme. The main prey items in the water here are perch (bluegill, possibly yellow perch, other sunfish species), as well as crawfish (ours tend to be mud colored or develop a lot of red when mature).

 

To start with, I am wanting to go for perch patterns. I looked through fishingskirts.com and most of the the boss heads come in a 4 pack which is great because it means I can make 4 slightly different patterns to see what the bass like best. Do you have a source for those black striped skirt tabs? I looked through their tabs and don't see any that quite match what I am wanting to do with the striping.

[Comfortably Numb]

Wow that page has changed. I only see living image tabs. No plain color, barbed wire, half barbed wire, flake etc. No search feature either unless i'm looking wrong.

 

Here is the one I used called Yellow Jacket.

https://fishingskirts.com/product/living-image-089b-yellow-jacket-463/

 

Email me if you want my old skirt recipe book.

bullpupp@comcast.net

[mattkenzer]

On 6/20/2018 at 10:06 AM, A-Jay said:

And sometimes having more of just one of the primary colors is better.

This is an important point A-Jay is making.

And yes, even orange as the primary color will at times, get the job done .....

[FishDewd]

6 hours ago, Comfortably Numb said:

Wow that page has changed. I only see living image tabs. No plain color, barbed wire, half barbed wire, flake etc. No search feature either unless i'm looking wrong.

 

Here is the one I used called Yellow Jacket.

https://fishingskirts.com/product/living-image-089b-yellow-jacket-463/

 

Email me if you want my old skirt recipe book.

bullpupp@comcast.net

Ah in your picture it looked more green but that's a cool pattern for sure.

 

I found the half barbed wire as "half wire". They seem to have all of that they just called it a little different than they may have before. Thanks though, I hadn't gone through all of those options and I'm seeing stuff I would like in a jig now that I've figured out what all the stuff on there is.

 

Yesterday I picked up a 6th sense divine jig that was on sale at Cabela's. Normally I wouldn't spend $4.99 on a jig, but it really impressed me with the colors, not to mention the head design is amazing. Pretty good perch imitation, so I am using it as the basis for what I'd like in a jig. If it had some white on the bottom and black on top it'd be pretty much perfect.

[Comfortably Numb]

Using the "Pen" style tool is easy to put skirts together with tabs. I usually use three tabs.

 

However layering the tabs can be difficult with that tool. In other words having a back color, center color and belly color. The more expensive band spreaders make this easier.

[Spankey]

Rapala has two perch versions of DT's ,Shad Raps, and floater divers. I have them in  in a few sizes. Very productive. 

 

Yellow perch are not a main forage base where I fish but they work. 

 

I can post a pic but they will be easy to find online.