Favorite Keitech swim bait colors?

[Munkin]

Wondering what everyone's favorite Keitech swim bait colors are? I am working on a jighead for fishing small Keitech swim baits and want to paint them to match.  Problem is there are so many colors so I would like to figure out the 5 or 6 most popular colors to start with. 

 

Allen 

[Jig Man]

Allen I catch most of mine on sight flash, Tennessee shad, blue chartreuse, sun gill and smallmouth magic.  

[A-Jay]

AYU & PERCH are my top producers and have been for a while

When it comes to jig head colors, do well with whatever color a plain tungsten head is

as well as just black.  

This Ayu color/pattern by Dobyns matches well with the above baits and most of the other 'natural colors I fish for brown bass here. 

A-Jay

[MeatHead1313]

Sight flash for bass and crappie. Chartreuse flash for inshore redfish and speckled trout. 

[LrgmouthShad]

Rainbow Shad, Super Shad, Light Hitch, and Ayu worked in Missouri

[webertime]

I predict literally every color will be mentioned in this thread.

 

Pro Staff Special. 

[casts_by_fly]

Ayu and smallmouth magic are my usuals. I carry chartreuse over white and white with sparkle (sight flash maybe?).

 

I think white, black, chartreuse, and then any dark over light color you want for the heads. 

[you]

1 hour ago, webertime said:

I predict literally every color will be mentioned in this thread.

 

Lol, yep.

 

I'll add green pumpkin magic and bluegill. Sight flash if it's for saltwater.

[Jig Man]

What method will you be using to paint them?

[GrumpyOlPhartte]

Yesterday (Oct 27) I did reasonably well with four-inch Sexy Shad here in western MA.

[Big Rick]

These choices are often relegated to the forage available in the regions each of us fish. Down south my number one color is Copperfield:

 

And a close second to Bluegill Flash:

 

 

Since most of these options are darker on top and lighter on bottom you could get away with a general color selection for the heads to match multiple baits, IMO. 

[bottom_dollar]

Pro blue red pearl

[JackstrawIII]

1. Green pumpkin shad

2. Bluegill flash

3. Alewife 

[QUAKEnSHAKE]

Bluegill Flash

French Pearl

 

[Munkin]

On 10/28/2023 at 2:10 PM, Jig Man said:

What method will you be using to paint them?

 

Airbrush just like my spinnerbaits.

 

Allen

[Munkin]

Looks like I can cover several with:

 

Gray over white

White over metallic silver

Dark green over pearl white

Green pumkin

Solid white

Chartreuse over white

 

Looking at TW's site Keitech makes 80 colors so there is no way I can cover all of those.

 

Allen

[GetFishorDieTryin]

That's a hard question, they have so many great colors and just came out with some new 1s that look great but I haven't tried yet.  

Bluegill Flash and Electric Shad are tied for first place as they're almost interchangeable

Gizzard Shad and pro blue red pearl are my go tos for a white or pearl base

A lot of the fish here especially bass have a pearltruese tint and Ayu represents that really well.

[WRB]

On 10/27/2023 at 9:04 PM, Munkin said:

Wondering what everyone's favorite Keitech swim bait colors are? I am working on a jighead for fishing small Keitech swim baits and want to paint them to match.  Problem is there are so many colors so I would like to figure out the 5 or 6 most popular colors to start with. 

 

Allen 

4” Fat Impact Electric Shad. Paint the jig head pearl white.

Tom

[Jig Man]

So far I am limiting myself to 3 head colors;  chartreuse over white, gray over white and gray.

[leinad]

sun gil

[txchaser]

BLUF - white, natural, green or unpainted

 

-something stock white to match pearl and other really white 

-something like a mouse, more subtle white with a two-tone, to match bluegill flash (which is a shad color) and other more natural colors. A stark white head on a natural body is a no from me

-something green to match GP, GP/watermelon, sungill, etc. Unpainted works just fine here IMO.

 

-put gill and shad sized eyes on them not these wee little eyes that so many makers use

 

 

[Bluebasser86]

Electric shad

[Functional]

Tennessee Shad 

[Big Hands]

My top 3 Keitech colors in exact order of preference (for literally every bait I have tried from them):

1) Electric Shad

2) Electric Shad

3) Electric Shad

I have done OK with other colors from them, but IME  and where I fish, Electric Shad outproduces them all. . . . every time. 

 

Other Keitech Colors I have used:

Bluegill Flash

Pro Blue Red Pearl

Sight Flash

Alewife

Rainbow Shad

June Bug

Green Pumpkin

Shad

Smallmouth Magic

Tennessee Shad

 

Baits from them that I have used:

Swing Impact

Fat Swing Impact

Easy Shiner

Sexy Impact

Shad Impact

 

These have all produced well. I use them mostly for Carolina Rig, and with Flashy Swimmers, and occasionally with a dropshot.

[Deebo]

Bluegill flash and sungill here.  Sungill on a white spinnerbait works great oddly