Bluegill flash color question..

[DitchPanda]

What does this color represent? To me a bluegill seems to be green,blue,orange...this looks more like a shad type color. Anyhow I'm thinking of getting some menace grubs in the bluegill color to throw on a bluegill swimjig...is this a good color combo?

[ajschn06]

I agree- I was looking for sunfish/bluegill type trailers and I've seen a lot of baits that have this color.  It doesn't mesh well with either of those combos for me- maybe it works but I didn't like the look so I didn't fish it.

 

6th sense does have a jig color, Bluegill Magic, that it pairs really well with though....

[roadwarrior]

1 hour ago, DitchPanda said:

What does this color represent? To me a bluegill seems to be green,blue,orange...this looks more like a shad type color. Anyhow I'm thinking of getting some menace grubs in the bluegill color to throw on a bluegill swimjig...is this a good color combo?

YES!

 

[Cgolf]

I use the menace bluegill, arsenal assualt bug bluegill flash and kalins grubs in bluegill a lot and have good success.

 

Bluegills colors vary widely. I have seen some that are very grey with blue and purple accents to the very greenish/yellow pumpkinseeds swimming in the same group. In these waters the above bluegill colors and smoke purples work well.

 

One other thing too, blugills in low light look a lot different than in the sun. Without the sun they can look greenish and with the sun they can look as I described above. I regularly switch between water red or hard candy and the colors I first listed depending on light penetration in the water. Sorry for the deep dive on my clear water color selection.

[DitchPanda]

Ok I'm convinced ill give it a shot

[plawren53202]

Agree with you, I fish bluegill flash color super flukes a lot and they don't particularly look like bluegill to me...but they do work well in ponds where the primary forage is bluegill.

 

IMO there are much better bluegill representations out there. Reaction Innovation's "sungill" little dippers look very realistic to me for a soft plastic, and they have worked great for me on the back of a bluegill pattern swim jig. I also like any soft plastic colors like Strike King's moon juice or Yum's bream, that have half green pumpkin and half blue. I think these imitate bluegill well, especially if you add a little dip in chartreuse Spike It. 

 

Overall, I don't think you have to have photographic representation of a bluegill to fool a bass into thinking it's striking at a bluegill; I think having some of the primary colors, combined with an appropriate bait action, is enough when a bait goes whizzing past a bass and they only have a second or so to decide to strike. Apparently that "bluegill flash" color does that alright.

[Big Hands]

Bluegill Flash (Keithech Swing Impact), and Bluegill (Jackall Flick Shake) has been my backup color on some baits this year. When my primary/favorite color slows down, or I run out of my primary color, I will switch to those colors. They're not my best color, but they're pretty decent. They produced at night too.

 

Neither one has any orange in it. Just blue flake and either silver/black or gold/black flake in a smoke-ish colored plastic.

[Bluebasser86]

Bluegill patterns are always overdone imo. Juvenile bluegills, the ones that a majority of bass eat, are very drab, at least around here. They're typically a few shades of greens and browns, some iridescent lavender, a touch of white on the belly and some chartreuse highlight on the tail. All the bright orange and blue is overkill unless trying to imitate a spawning green sunfish or longear sunfish. They're not bright colorful fish at all like the color patterns often used to imitate them, not too far off from a shad really.

[Munkin]

1 hour ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Bluegill patterns are always overdone imo. Juvenile bluegills, the ones that a majority of bass eat, are very drab, at least around here. They're typically a few shades of greens and browns, some iridescent lavender, a touch of white on the belly and some chartreuse highlight on the tail. All the bright orange and blue is overkill unless trying to imitate a spawning green sunfish or longear sunfish. They're not bright colorful fish at all like the color patterns often used to imitate them, not too far off from a shad really.

 

Great point! The juveniles are colored differently which I never really paid attention to. Once people started asking me to make "bluegill" or "sunfish" colored baits I fought this out. Depending on the specific species, male/female, and even the geographic location they can be 50 different colors.

 

As far as bluegill trailers go I like sungill and prostaff the best.

 

Allen

[Bluebasser86]

3 minutes ago, Munkin said:

 

Great point! The juveniles are colored differently which I never really paid attention to. Once people started asking me to make "bluegill" or "sunfish" colored baits I fought this out. Depending on the specific species, male/female, and even the geographic location they can be 50 different colors.

 

As far as bluegill trailers go I like sungill and prostaff the best.

 

Allen

I should add I'm in no way saying the brightly colored baits don't work because they clearly do and I have some myself that have accounted for plenty of fish, but guys going for the "match the hatch", look with a bluegill bait would be better off looking for more of a plain old green pumpkin or watermelon colored bait.

[Munkin]

3 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I should add I'm in no way saying the brightly colored baits don't work because they clearly do and I have some myself that have accounted for plenty of fish, but guys going for the "match the hatch", look with a bluegill bait would be better off looking for more of a plain old green pumpkin or watermelon colored bait.

 

Working on a Pumkinseed swim jig right now and its tough. Head has 10 different colors of paint and I am still not 100% happy with it.

 

Allen