Color of your crawfish???????

[eyedabassman]

I would like to see your input as to what color are your  crawfish are in your lakes. I know they change color during the year but I would like to see your answers. Also what state are you from. The lakes I fish in Wisconsin the crawfish are green with orange or red claws, and I have seen them as just green or a pale brown and a sandy color. 8-)

[Catt]

Green, red, brown, black, off orange, white, gray, bluish or any combination of all of the above

[bassmaster8100]

kind of a brownish orangish color

[ABA CAST CHAMP 2006]

Kentucky.  We've got a bunch that fall into the brown/orange/dark olive category such as the rusty crawfish.  There's another kind that I haven't been able to find any information on that I've found in KY Lake.  It is almost a turquoise bluish/green with 2 skinny yellow racing stripes down its back.  Only found a few, and I'm pretty sure at least one of them was female because she was hiding a mess of eggs under her tail, but it's a pretty killer color down here in the spring.

[Raul]

During the spring and summer they are sortof "green pumpkin", during the winter they turn black back & red belly.

[BASS fisherman]

The only color craws I have ever seen in PA were brown.

[bocabasser]

blue/brown-florida

[bassinandrew88]

Here in Missouri we usually have larger craws that are blueish and black and a hint of red with lobster like "pinchers". And the smaller ones are usually a dark orangish/rust color with smaller "pinchers"

[NJfishinGuy]

where do you see these craws to know what color they are. i have never seen a natural craw in my lakes? the only time i seen anything was last fall fishing a tourney one bass spit up claws that were like bright lobster red

[lmb7]

brown body with sometimes brown or blue claws. in ontario

[Garnet]

You only need to look in the water and if you generally see light sandy color thats the tones of grey fish and minnows if it's brown same thing.

In a world were you are the food blending in is good.

Garnet

[flyphisher #]

Only ones i have seen are orange-brown color, understandable with all the red clay banks. GA

[Bass Smacker]

 Black with red stripeds & claws or brown and some green

 

[SneakySnook]

Florida. Blue and blue with brown.

[RoLo]

Instead of trying to mimic the colors of local crayfish,

I'm more concerned with lure visibility.

Ironically, crayfish display nearly every primary color there is,

so we'd have trouble not using crayfish colors if we tried.

For visibility sake, I like to mix a dark and light color,

that way I'm never more than half wrong under any lighting conditions.

I'm not sure what bass prefer, but I like plastic craws with a

Green-Pumpkin body and Orange claws, or a Pumpkin body

with Chartreuse claws, or a Black body w/ Chartreuse claws, et al.

In the final analysis, we probably worry about color more than bass

Roger

[.ghoti.]

I like the two-tone approach myself. Black/blue claws, green or brown/orange claws and black/chartreuse claws. The green and brown are generally for clearer water and the black is for dirtier water, but this is not really a hard and fast rule.

Cheers,

GK

[Infidel.]

The crawfish I see in Southern California are green/brown until they get to be about 3.5" long and then they tend to be red as can be.

[Brian_Reeves]

You would think since I grew up in Louisiana and spend my time in Texas, I would know...but I don't.  I don't have a clue.

That's because I am colorblind (no joke)

[IdahoLunkerHunter]

I agree with ghoti and RoLo. I usually stick with a two tone color. Usually a darker body color brown, watermelon, red,  and I try to stick with a light grey/orage/red/or chartreuse for the bottom, usually with cranks. We have brown and orange/red craws in Northern Idaho eastern washington.

[Infidel.]

That might be a good thing AT.  With as much time as we all spend obsessing about color you probably save yourself a lot of headaches.

[jcrazy]

OH. in the river we got brown with black spots

[Brian_Reeves]

I have to bring my wife with me to help me find certain colors.  I know what shades of colors that I want and can tell that better than my fishing buddies, but I'll get brown insead of green, or blue instead of brown.  I have to keep soft plastics in bags and work off of memory and notes instead of the colors themselves.  A bad April's fools trick to play on me would be switching all my baits around in their bags. >

[hi_steel_basser]

I have been wondering this. How do you find crawfish in your lake? I remember reading about a pro who found a neon orange craw in a lake and cleaned house with a jig. I was wondering if there was a way to catch crawdads just to see what colors they were.

[Catt]

This is what all the Crawfish Farmers in Louisiana use, they can be bought or made.

[bubbler]

In california,lake casitas, The craws are like a dark brown on top and lighter beown on the bottoms