2 color skirts - how much of opposing color?

[mheichelbech]

For guys that are making or changing up their own skirt colors for jigs, bladed jigs, etc.  How much of the "opposing" color do you like to have?  For example on a black/chartruese, black/blue, pumpkin/orange, white/chartruese, how many strands out of a 50/55 strand skirt, do you want in the chartrues, blue, orange?

 

I have always like to see it be a prominent part of the skirt, with as much as 30-40% of the skirt with the offset color but it seems like a lot of pre-made skirts it is a lot less than that.  I don't know if this is a cost effectiveness thing or because it works better...like to see what y'all have to say about this.

[scaleface]

On the black chartreuse jig I like them predominantly black with just a flash of chartreuse . I dont know how many strands that is or what percentage .Same with black blue .  Its probably just a coincidence but I seem to catch bigger bass on black  or mostly black . 

[roadwarrior]

10 minutes ago, scaleface said:

On the black chartreuse jig I like them predominantly black with just a flash of chartreuse . I dont know how many strands that is or what percentage .Same with black blue .  Its probably just a coincidence but I seem to catch bigger bass on black  or mostly black . 

If you have black and blue skirts, pick out the blue.

 

[Logan S]

I generally only make my own skirts for black/green since no companies offer that retail...But I use 2 tabs of black and 1 tab of green.  2 to 1 Seems to be the appropriate ratio to me (the one on the right I trimmed the inside strands out for a slimmer profile...was just a pic I had on hand).  

 

[Mbirdsley]

66% darker color 33% lighter color For example black and blue jig between

1/4-3/8 I use one full tab black one full tab and half a black tab.  1/2-1oz jig I use 1 full tab black, 1 full tab blue, and 1 full tab black. This is the same for any colors 

[A-Jay]

My skirt making formula for swim jigs can perhaps best be descibed as sort of match the hatch but also hope that the finished product is just 'a little off'.  

#differentbydesign

A-Jay 

 

 

[WRB]

3 schools of thought; high contrast, natural and what the bass want.

Tom

[DitchPanda]

I use the contrasting color only to highlight normally. Half tab blue to 2 tabs black. Bluegill skirts I use 1.5 tabs green pumpkin...3 strands each blue,orange and chartreuse. If I'm being honest the color is mostly for me...I catch just as many fish on straight brown, green, white or black as I do with multi color skirts. Maybe more.

[Tatsu Dave]

I have a somewhat similar post on here concerning new skirts on buzzbaits  so I guess I would ask what do bass want? Contrast or natural? Two color or one color? Seems with all the available color combos its maybe complicating what should be a simple choice.

[mheichelbech]

5 hours ago, Tatsu Dave said:

I have a somewhat similar post on here concerning new skirts on buzzbaits  so I guess I would ask what do bass want? Contrast or natural? Two color or one color? Seems with all the available color combos its maybe complicating what should be a simple choice.

I think a lot of it depends on where you are and even what body of water.  Around here, just like crawfish, bluegill seem to change colors and obviously bass do between shallow and deep.  I can’t recall seeing any black/chartreuse crawfish or fish but the color does work well in stained water...I don’t know maybe it looks different to fish.  Around here bluegill often have more of a gray/silver tint all over except for the top area around the back which almost always is black/dark color.  
The one thing I can say for sure is that nearly everything in the water is dark on too and lighter in the lower and bottom part of the the body.  The variance between the two shades seems to me to be determined by the environment: water clarity, depth they are holding, bottom composition if holding near the bottom, and cover (weeds, wood, rock).

I seldom fish a bait that is 100% all one color except for Senko type baits and floating worms.  I like the 2/3, 1/3 concept for jigs....but I also like the fish scale type patterns in certain situations.

[scaleface]

7 hours ago, Tatsu Dave said:

I have a somewhat similar post on here concerning new skirts on buzzbaits  so I guess I would ask what do bass want? Contrast or natural? Two color or one color? Seems with all the available color combos its maybe complicating what should be a simple choice.

On a buzzbait skirts I dont know what works best . I have been fishing them from the 70's and use white , black , chartreuse , Yellow/black....Most of the time I just use whatever I feel like . Night time fishing I have always used black because that is what is suppose to be used .Dont know how true that is but they works .

[Tatsu Dave]

Think I will try all black and a black/blue, the trailer will have other colors to contrast. I plan on using these in dark stained water in early morning or evening. 

[Munkin]

All depends on what effect I am trying to create. Normal jigs I will use 2 tabs of the main color and 1/2 of the accent. Bluegill ones though will have a bunch of different colors.

 

Allen

[Heron]

I typically use...

- 2 tabs of primary color

- 1/2 tab of secondary color

- Or, if I want extra bulk, a full third tab of secondary color

 

otherwise I use 2.5 tabs of all one color.