tricky question

[fishingdude41791]

can we all agree that when were using a jig, a popular technique is yoyoing and draging it , which is to imatate a crawdad?

if so than why is it that i have used these techniques with black and blue jigs and have still caught bass? wouldnt a bass know a blue crawdad doesnt exsist?

what do you guys think

[frogtog]

Can't believe you have never seen a blue craw fish. :

[bocabasser]

blue crawfish everywhere here in florida. one of my favorite colors is okeechobee craw. blue with some green pumpkin. it is a killer!

[Hookemdown.]

Heck, I hammer em' up here in AR with black and blue.

I would guess a dragging retrieve would imitate a slowly moving craw. And hopping would represent a fleeing one.  What ever the reason, i know that it works.

[grimlin]

check it out... http://www.homestead.com/bmorgan/crawdad.html

[rocknfish9001]

Crawdads come in quite an array of colors. Our pond has brown ones, the river has red ones, and this one lake we fish has green ones, like this color.

[Catt]

I prefer mine red

[Raul]

I prefer mine red

Dang ! bring the brews, the hot sauce and lots of napkins.  ;D

[Catt]

Can y'all blame bass for loving em?  

[Sam]

If I remember correctly, Hank Parker said that the best color for a jig below the Mason-Dixon Line is blue and black.

He did not know why this color combination is the best but it works.

And it does.

[Catt]

I throw 2 colors  

Black-n-Blue 70% of the time & Black-n-Red the other 30%

[gatrboy53]

when a bass sees a bait it doesnt THINK crawfish,it does assimilate food .same w/ color or to a bass hue.it doesnt THINK oh i dont remember a black and blue crawfish,it assimiltes food that has the hues of food.and for that matter if it moves and is remotely similar to food ,they THINK eat it before it gets away.fish are conditioned to likes and dislikes but not thought process like we are.

[mattm]

I think that that is just the best color for the way you fish a jig.  Some crawfish do have blue in them, but I think this just another example of color mattering much more to us than fish.

[TheBeast]

but I think this just another example of color mattering much more to us than fish.

Exactly.  I was reading somewhere a few weeks ago about plastic worms, bass never see a nightcrawler naturally in the water, especially a purple one with a yellow tail but how many of them have caught fish.  My partner saturday night has 3 cases of them he bought before mister Twister stopped making them, said he had to buy 50,000 of them originally to get'em so he did sold most of them till he got down to his last 3 boxes.

[Guest avid]

The notion that bait should imitate what natural food is logical.

The problem with the idea is that it simply is not true.

Is there anything in your fishin' hole that looks like a chartreuse double willow leaf spinnerbait?

I'll bet not, but I'll bet plenty of bass have been caught on one.

A bass has a brain the size of a grain of rice.    It don't "think" at all.

[Catt]

And I thought all these years I was the dumb one in the equation  

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

Every day, my belief that color is "most often" irrelevant, gets stronger and stronger.

From our experiment this spring, catching 21 fish on 21 colors in 4 hrs, to the fact that a bass is gonna tag something if it looks "alive and edible", regardless of color.

Had this conversation this weekend w/ a tourny angler, he said if you ever fish Champlain, don't bother unless you use blk/blh.

I have a tough time with that.

A. A bass is a bass.  I f3eel I could fish witrh confidence in Champlain using ant natural color.

B. If you believe in the blk/blu theory so much, what are the chances you gave ANY other color a fair chance last time you were there?

All these colors,...I think it's more about the green (in your pocket!)

[Catt]

Color is one of the aspects of fishing that can not be explained and if someone says the can they are lying. The most commonly accepted theory is to match the hatch. After eating crawfish my entire life I can tell you with out a doubt that deep water crawfish are black with red spots and shallow water crawfish are various shades of brown.

There are times when certain colors will out produce all others and the certain times when it just doesn't matter; why is anybodies guess.

[FIN-S-R]

From back in young childhood I remember catching lots of pale blue crawdads that had recently molted. Also, While doing some shallow diving I have seen crawdads in and around shale outcrops that have dark blue and purple streaks, as well as black backs. Now as for color mattering, its probably a visibilty issue, when color doesnt seem to matter much...they just have to be able to see it. Now when color seems to matter its probably a function of a concentration of 1 type of forage in an area. Example: May tourney post spawners would only eat a light weight green pumpkin jig with matching trailer on heavy mono or FC for a super slow fall...took me 3 days to figure it out. And it had to have a rubber skirt, and be a certain lighter shade of green pumpkin to be the most effective. After a few of the fish I caught puked up 3-6inch blue gills that were exactly that color I began to realize that the Bream color was very important. I experimented with some other colors in likely spots and got nothing or maybe small fish, but it was probably a 10:1 ratio for any other color against the light green pumpkin jig. In the same spots after trying alternate colors, on the very next cast or a couple of casts later, I would produce a fish on the green pumpkin...color mattered. I got on a good vibe bite another time but they would only hit a vibe with the green scale pattern overlaid on a black back...the black back alone would get you nothing, and a vibe is obviously a reaction bite. Another instance was a very productive deep crankin bite I was on, was extremely good on a dark blue green back DD22 under semi low light conditions...any other color would leave you empty handed...and I tried other colors. Now when a cloud rolled in, They would quit the Smokey joe, but would absolutley crush a a green joe (same thing but with a chart line just under the blue green back). Color mattered. On the other hand, I found post spawners hangin right off the bank 1 day and absolutley smoked em with senkos. I started out with june bug, but ran out after about an hour. I changed to white and never skipped a beat. I started changin up just to see, and caught fish on ever color senko I had when rigged weightless, but not a single nibble on a t-rigged or shakey head, or drop shot. That instance was purely a technique deal, but I had good water clarity and anyting that was visible and presented a certain way got bit. Tim Horton commented that he has never been too hung up on color, if your around the fish and they are actively feeding, the right presentation will get you bit every time. This is probably correct for the most part, but I think color can be the difference between a good bite and a great day.

[BassHunter69]

hank parker is right big time black and blue produces very well here in alabama

If I remember correctly, Hank Parker said that the best color for a jig below the Mason-Dixon Line is blue and black.

He did not know why this color combination is the best but it works.

And it does.