What color jig are you throwing in clear deep grass

[Bandersnatch]

Think heat of the summer Canada. Deep milfol mixed with other grass. Some pockets of grass types all the way to surface but there’s lots of drop offs as deep as 12-14 ft. What jog color are you throwing ? More dark green pumpkins or do you like a little chartreuse and white? Or, is it too irrelevant and thus I’ll just buy green pumpkin. These will like be pitched in 1/2 & 3/4 into pockets, edges and swam in and out with something like a smaller d walker, craw or even straight tail.

 

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Beast_Coast_Tungsten_Lil_Magnum_Jig/descpage-LMJ.html

[bulldog1935]

Blend colors for clear water - the color of the grass or the natural markings on the bait.  

Darker blend color in overcast, brighter blend colors in bright sun. 

[WRB]

Jig color isn’t as important as weight and head shape. Bass will detect a jig moving near them and ignore it if covered with weeds.

Color selection matters more to the angler then the bass, so use a color you have confidence with.

If I told you that white with green back was best would you use it?

Tom

[bulldog1935]

horse hockey, hit fish will reject color that is too obvious and unnatural.  

The reason for using unnatural colors is so they will cast form and be visible in turbid water and changing light conditions.  

[Jigfishn10]

21 hours ago, WRB said:

Jig color isn’t as important as weight and head shape. Bass will detect a jig moving near them and ignore it if covered with weeds.

Color selection matters more to the angler then the bass, so use a color you have confidence with.

If I told you that white with green back was best would you use it?

Tom

 

I’m rather fond of jigs with white and green back, so yes, I would use it ….  

[Catt]

31 minutes ago, bulldog1935 said:

horse hockey, hit fish will reject color that is too obvious and unnatural.  

 

Please explain why Merthiolate, Pink, Chartreuse, Lime, & other unnatural colors work will in clear water?

 

I've found Ditch Weed to be highly productive in both clear & off colored water.

 

 

[bulldog1935]

Easy - low-angle morning and late-afternoon light transmits through the bait and  illuminates fish guts.  

Z-man minnow Z colors, reflected light/ transmitted light 

In the middle is Mood Ring, which reflects mullet blue sheen and transmits mullet guts.  

[softwateronly]

These are my favorite clear water swim jig colors...

 

 

 

If you're staying beast coast, big fan of 

 

 

 

 

 

scott

[casts_by_fly]

Whatever color the forage is. Influenced a little by the light level (sunny or cloudy). The first one that soft water posted above is pretty close to one of my go to colors.  I also throw the below (dirty 420) a bunch if the water is a little dirty or it’s darker out. 
 

[Bandersnatch]

58 minutes ago, softwateronly said:

These are my favorite clear water swim jig colors...

 

 

 

If you're staying beast coast, big fan of 

 

 

 

 

 

scott

Thanks Scott. I’m not set on staying with the lil magnum as my swim jig but do feel like it might be able to do both with it. I love the lethal weapon 4 swim jigs but they don’t come in 3/4 and this lil magnum works great for pitiching. I do wish you could still get revenge swim jigs. We shall see how it works. Does anybody pitch a swim jig with a swim bait trailer just like they’d flip a craw? I imagine many do 

[softwateronly]

2 hours ago, Bandersnatch said:

Thanks Scott. I’m not set on staying with the lil magnum as my swim jig but do feel like it might be able to do both with it. I love the lethal weapon 4 swim jigs but they don’t come in 3/4 and this lil magnum works great for pitiching. I do wish you could still get revenge swim jigs. We shall see how it works. Does anybody pitch a swim jig with a swim bait trailer just like they’d flip a craw? I imagine many do 

I don't really pitch often, but have caught dozens, hundreds?, over the years on the initial fall as it swims to the bottom.  I haven't used those swim jigs before.  In 3/4-1oz I've been happy with dirty jigs cali and northstar baits Flip N Swim.  Well made, heavy duty jigs.

 

 

 

scott

[casts_by_fly]

2 hours ago, Bandersnatch said:

Thanks Scott. I’m not set on staying with the lil magnum as my swim jig but do feel like it might be able to do both with it. I love the lethal weapon 4 swim jigs but they don’t come in 3/4 and this lil magnum works great for pitiching. I do wish you could still get revenge swim jigs. We shall see how it works. Does anybody pitch a swim jig with a swim bait trailer just like they’d flip a craw? I imagine many do 

two seasons ago that’s how I caught a bunch of my bass. Swim jigs were the thing that year and I fished them with a keitech 3.8 or 4.2. Pitch them to the holes in the grass and let them hit bottom. Give it two hops and swim it back.  Or cast it out well past a hole and swim it across the top.  Then when you hit the hole kill it and let it fall. I also pitched docks with it the same.  I rarely tie on a non swim jig anymore. We have so much grass from may onward that any other head style just gets hung too much. So now I just tie on a swim jig and maybe swap trailers for a different action. 

[smesx]

BC Lil'Magnum is my favorite jig for grass.

 

I fish mainly on a clear lake with lots of stringy grass and some curlyleaf.  I pair it with a crush city cleanup craw mostly.  The head shape and vertical line tie come through grass really well for me.  Not the best choice around wood.

 

Favorite colors are green pumpkin blue (ALF exclusive color), green pumpkin, or stealth pumpkin.

 

You can drag it, hop it, swim it.... extremely versatile.

[Bankbeater]

Fishing clear lakes with grass I stick to natural colors.  Most of the time I'm fishing with different shades of green.  If there are a lot of trees casting shadows on the water I may be casting out a black/blue jig.

[GetFishorDieTryin]

I like darker colors around grass.  For soft plastics I like junebug or a junebug laminate.  Beast Coast has some of the best stock skirts around, i love the tinsel.  Hard to go wrong with bruised, or green pumpkin black.  Elite craw, stealth craw and neon melon are great too.  All the stealth skirts have a mixture of skirt materials which gives the skirt a different action than most.  

[papajoe222]

I throw white jigs a lot in vegetation, unless I'm punching then I tend to go with green/brown or black/blue. There was a time I only used white jigs in the fall, but once I figured out how productive they were throughout the year, I had a hard time putting them down.They're more visible in the weeds than say a bluegill pattern. I can add a trailer to match or contrast. As someone

[Texas Flood]

I like to use BP&J for jig color. I will either use a Outkast Cage Feider or Greenfish Little Rubber Jig

 

 

[LrgmouthShad]

Oldham Jigs Watermelon Pepper Chartreuse is a great color in clear water with some vegetation or cloud cover

[Derek1]

9 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Oldham Jigs Watermelon Pepper Chartreuse is a great color in clear water with some vegetation or cloud cover

That color just seems to work all the time. 

[10,000 lakes Bassin]

Something to match whatever they are eating. Siebert outdoors makes some killer jigs, and in about any color you could want.  

On 1/12/2025 at 9:09 PM, softwateronly said:

I don't really pitch often

I'm curios why not? Have you not had good luck pitching? or would you just rather swim a jig instead?

[softwateronly]

My water is really clear, usually 10' plus, fishing pressure is moderate to heavy, recreational boat traffic can get extremely heavy, and I'm currently without a trolling motor.  So I often use the wind and anchor to position myself in key areas that allow me to work the deep weedline and also reach the first major breakline.  The contour lines between 5-20' are very compressed, so roll casts and long casts from one spot gives me a lot of info on how they are set up that day.  It also reminds me that even if the day is all about the deep weedline (15-20), I'll still throw up at the high percentage 5-10' areas before I leave because not all fish are doing the same thing at the same time. 

 

 

scott

[PBBrandon]

I typically keep it simple with jigs, black and blue or some variation of green craw/green pumpkin depending on the weather/water conditions 

[Lead Head]

If I'm understanding correctly, you will be fishing at or below the visibility line (for humans) in cover. I would approach it the same as overcast conditions. Natural leaning to dark, or natural leaning to bright/contrasting colors.

 

I make my own skirts and would start off green pumpkin with a little dark green pumpkin on the back and watermelon on the belly. Then use trailers to switch between darker/brighter colors that are commonly successful in your area.

 

90% of my fishing is in water about the color and consistency of a Yoohoo, but we vacation 2 weeks every year on a lake that is pretty clear for around here. This is how I approach it. I find that a natural colored jig leaning to dark presents effectively in almost any condition with the right trailer.