Jig Color Debate 2024
Adkfishing reply :
This idea for a topic came to me while browsing through loads of miscellaneous tackle at home. My question to you guys is do you prefer a jig with more contrasting colors or to match your skirt to your trailer?
My take on the subject is to have a multi-colored jig with a trailer that matches your secondary color. For example I like a Black w/ blue accent pitching jig with a blue sapphire zoom chunk trailer. I switch it up though when they aren't biting or when I fish offshore football jigs. With football jigs I contrast the trailer with the skirt. Like green pumpkin with a blue trailer, or pbj with watermellon. I think it gives the bass a better look in deeper water, and looks like different forage.
IDK I have a system for now but I'd like to see what you guys have to say, and what else I could try.
Ozark_Basser reply :
Green pumpkin is what I use as a trailer ~95% of the time regardless of skirt color.
I don't think it matters an awful lot though most of the time.
Choporoz reply :
To paraphrase Gerald Swindle, I use a blue jig with a blue and black trailer....if that doesn't get bit, I throw a black jig with a black and blue trailer...if that still doesn't work, I throw a blue and black jig with a blue (or even sometimes black) trailer
Catt reply :
Jigs!
3 colors
Black-N-Blue
Black Neon
Coon Tail: perfect for Rage's Falcon Lake Craw
badhatharry reply :
I'll use any color jig....as long as it's black. If I want to add color, I do it in the trailer. And that usually involves some degree of chartreuse and is most likely pork. Just before I quit fishing 15 years ago I laid in a good supply of Gary Klein Weapon jig heads and a whole bunch of living rubber skirt material. So that is what I use 100% of the time.
Fun4Me reply :
Here's Swindle talking about it.
gardnerjigman reply :
99.9 percent of the time I'm throwing black and blue with a black and blue trailer. Or PBJ with a green pumpkin trailer.
Jrob78 reply :
I like black and blue, in any combination and green pumpkin with an accent color, with a green pumpkin trailer.
poisonokie reply :
I fish a lot of different colors. My favorites are black/blue and green pumpkin chartreuse, but I use several others. It just depends on cloud cover, time of day, water clarity, wind. I pick jig colors the same way I do cranks more or less.
bigbill reply :
You don't let the light and water conditions influence what color jig and trailer we use? The jig represents the natural craws. Match the color of the natural craws. Does the color game change when using jigs?
Sorry I consider myself still new with jigs. The football head 3/8oz green pumpkin skirt with a flw green chunk trailer with twin rattles works for me so far.
I haven't taken the time to experiment yet.
My craws in the ponds and small lakes have black backs and red sides. (Live ones) The river craws are a beige color.(dead ones)
The size/weight matters in depth?
The bass are limited at times to what colors they can see do to light and water conditions. If our jig isn't working it could be the wrong color.
WRB reply :
Black-blue combinations are the most popular colors for jigs hands down across the country.
However black- blue rarely works where I fish, unless it's at night or very deep (40'+) cold water during the winter months.
The colors that work vary day to day or even hour to hour. I fish hair jigs a lot in multiple colors, usually 3 different color of hair; black, purple & brown is my favorite and use either a black, purple or barn red pork trailer, depending on what combo works. The only time I use greens with hair jigs is late pre spawn, then it's black, green brown hair jig with green or brown pork trailer. Also use a white-green hair jig with white pork trailer during early summer.
Silicone skirts I use brown-red barb wire combo and brown, purple- green bard wire combo with green pumpkin-black flake or cinnamon purple flake craw trailers.
At night I use the black/purple/brown hair jig with black trailer ir black-blue with black trailer.
Don't be stuck on popular colors, try others to see if the bass want something else.
Tom
bigbill reply :
My rebel BIGCLAW CRAWFISH crankbaits that dives to ten feet in chartruese is a very successful bait. To me it's one of my hottest baits. It has me thinking now maybe a chartruese colored jig would be a hot setup too.
Mike at Sieberts Outdoors made me up some chartruese colored jigs I have yet to toss them. On my chartruese spinnerbaits I change the color to hot chartruese.
I believe that colors really matter than most fisherman think about it.
On a slow day it can be your bait color.
When my most productive red amber flake senkos didn't produce my electric blue flake did. When most of all my crank colors failed to work the firetiger color caught fish.
I'm a color freak, don't limit your colors. I'm no pro or claim to be I just like to catch fish.
FinCulture reply :
I like to match, especially with swim jigs.
A-Jay reply :
I use 3 jig colors.
Black & Blue, Brown Or Green Pumpkin.
I only have 2 color trailers Black & Blue & Green Pumpkin.
I'll use either trailer on the back of either jig.
Sometimes I dip the trailer- but that's really just for me.
A-Jay
bigbill reply :
I haven't tried the mister twister 4" split double tail grub yet on a jig but it's a killer on the spinnerbaits with a trailer hook. Do u guys/gals us a trailer hook on a jig?
long island basser reply :
I like Browns, orange , reds.
Some green pumpkin , pbj.
I rarely use blue/ black jigs.
My waters have good visibility, 7-8 ft most days and most of Fishing season my craws look like this,
I like to have matching tralior, with my fav weight being 3/8.
papajoe222 reply :
I like to match the trailer to the jig skirt and give the whole package darker or lighter 'highlights'
A different color head or dipping the tips of the trailer in a contrasting color.
scaleface reply :
Black jig brown pork frog is a killer combo .
FinCulture reply :
On 9/4/2015 at 7:34 AM, long island basser said:I like Browns, orange , reds.
Some green pumpkin , pbj.
I rarely use blue/ black jigs.
My waters have good visibility, 7-8 ft most days and most of Fishing season my craws look like this,
I like to have matching tralior, with my fav weight being 3/8.
wow that little dude in the pic was HUNGRY!
Bankbeater reply :
This year I have been using black, watermelon, and black/blue. Matching the trailers to the jig.
A-Jay reply :
btw - here's the new favorite trailer ~
A-Jay
Fun4Me reply :
What are those A-Jay?
Did you buy them like that?
A-Jay reply :
On 9/4/2015 at 9:38 AM, Fun4Me said:What are those A-Jay?
Did you buy them like that?
These are 4" Renaissance Craws.
They are made by Paul Krew at "Custom Hand Poured Baits".
He'll pour ANYTHING you want - this is one of his custom creation colors called "Live GP".
I like it.
A-Jay
MIbassyaker reply :
On 9/4/2015 at 9:35 AM, A-Jay said:btw - here's the new favorite trailer ~
A-Jay
New Favorite trailer.jpg
New Favorite trailer.jpg
Wow!!
On 9/4/2015 at 9:46 AM, A-Jay said:These are 4" Renaissance Craws.
They are made but Paul Krew at "Custom Hand Poured Baits".
He'll pour ANYTHING you want - this is one of his custom creation colors called "Live GP".
I like it.
A-Jay
Noted!
Fun4Me reply :
On 9/4/2015 at 9:46 AM, A-Jay said:These are 4" Renaissance Craws.
They are made but Paul Krew at "Custom Hand Poured Baits".
He'll pour ANYTHING you want - this is one of his custom creation colors called "Live GP".
I like it.
A-Jay
I like those a lot. Thank you for the info!
Are those the same size as a Pit Boss?
RoLo reply :
I use different colors but without departing very far from the median hue.
Example of compatible colors would be brown & orange, black & blue, green & yellow and so on.
I try to avoid loud contrasting hues because that's exactly what Mother Nature uses
to warn predators of toxic prey. For instance: the monarch butterfly, coral snake, Asian hornet, dart frog, and so on.
Roger
A-Jay reply :
On 9/4/2015 at 9:55 AM, Fun4Me said:I like those a lot. Thank you for the info!
Are those the same size as a Pit Boss?
Yes - same size & type of profile.
A-Jay
Fun4Me reply :
On 9/4/2015 at 10:10 AM, A-Jay said:Yes - same size & type of profile.
A-Jay
What do those run, if you don't mind me asking? Feel free to PM me if you don't want to put it out in public.
iabass8 reply :
Magic craw
The go to
Black/blue
Only 3 colors i use from dirty jigs when pitching/flipping
A-Jay reply :
On 9/4/2015 at 10:13 AM, Fun4Me said:What do those run, if you don't mind me asking? Feel free to PM me if you don't want to put it out in public.
PM Sent
A-Jay
kickerfish1 reply :
Some guys collect hardbaits and high end plugs. I sort of do the same thing with jigs. Pretty sure I have well over 100 different color variations.
Montanaro reply :
People can spin themselves out with too many colors. When you read about pros color suggestions they all say the same thing. K.i.s.s.
If you need to add color to match match, use dyes or markers.
With that said, my go to colors are
Black blue
Green pumpkin black
Green Pumpkin red flake
Brown and black.
Covers all craw combinations and allows you to reduce number of packets of soft plastics as only 2-4 trailer colors are needed.
WRB reply :
I failed to mention that to me a jig fish is a adult size bass over 4 lbs and have lots of other stuff for bass under 4 lbs. Pre spawn the bar gets raised to over 10 lbs for jig bass, for this reason hair jigs and pork trailers are my first choice for jigs.
Tom
Alonerankin2 reply :
Around here you about have to throw brown & orange in late winter/early spring.. Black & brown followed by a green pumpkin or watermelon color scheme.. Black works great as well. I prefer hair jigs myself, w pork.. In more heat I use plastic.
SwampStudBassin reply :
For me it just depends on water clarity, forage, and time of year. Can't go wrong with greens and Brown's though.
WRB reply :
Yesterday having lunch with my old fishing buddies, we are old enough to repeat stories, the topic of jig colors came up. Do you remember what color we used after Labor Day up at the lake? After a long pause the answer was blue. Blue vynle jigs was the hot color, then all the fish stories start about the bass we catch with blue jigs in September. The best thing about bass fishing is sharing memories.
Tom
Raul reply :
There´s no debate, any color is fine as long as it is black.
roadwarrior reply :
I don't know, a lot of colors work for me. The last year or so PBJ has been killer!
Lately it's been Alabama Craw (Thank you Mike Siebert).
bowhunter63 reply :
For on the bottom i like Brown,Green pumpkin and add a little bright color.Lately any color i got that matches the bama craw color by Rage.Swim jig i try to match the Shad or Bluegill.
Maxximus Redneckus reply :
No debate brown blue or purple all ya need throw in a white swim jig all around the world each day your covered
RoLo reply :
On 9/5/2015 at 1:22 AM, Raul said:There´s no debate, any color is fine as long as it is black.
I agree, 'black' is the safest color for any and all conditions.
Roger
Jon G reply :
2-3 colors are all that's needed when fishing a jig. Green Pumpkin, Black and Blue, and a Brown. For a trailer just play around with it and see what you like.
A-Jay reply :
On 9/4/2015 at 6:39 PM, Alonerankin2 said:Around here you about have to throw brown & orange in late winter/early spring.. Black & brown followed by a green pumpkin or watermelon color scheme.. Black works great as well. I prefer hair jigs myself, w pork.. In more heat I use plastic.
Brown & Orange you say ? These may be of interest ~
A-Jay
RoLo reply :
On 9/6/2015 at 11:19 PM, Jon G said:2-3 colors are all that's needed when fishing a jig. Green Pumpkin, Black and Blue, and a Brown. For a trailer just play around with it and see what you like.
Black, White & Green covers all bases
After that, the angler is the only beneficiary 
Roger
Alonerankin2 reply :
On 9/8/2015 at 8:15 AM, A-Jay said:Brown & Orange you say ? These may be of interest ~
A-Jay
Hey, those look really unique.. & the right color scheme, how do they fish?
ww2farmer reply :
I follow the K.I.S.S method for jig colors.
Flipping, football, and finesse jigs: black and blue, green pumpkin and brown, brown and purple (pb&j), and green pumpkin with a few strands of orange and chartreuse...
Swim jigs+ chatterbaits: black and blue, bluegill, and white.
A-Jay reply :
On 9/8/2015 at 6:24 PM, Alonerankin2 said:Hey, those look really unique.. & the right color scheme, how do they fish?
A slightly more subtle claw flap than a SK Rage Craw.
I have noted that they are a little on the soft side - plenty of salt infused - In the Yamamoto Class
A-Jay
K_Mac reply :
On 9/8/2015 at 7:15 PM, ww2farmer said:I follow the K.I.S.S method for jig colors.
Flipping, football, and finesse jigs: black and blue, green pumpkin and brown, brown and purple (pb&j), and green pumpkin with a few strands of orange and chartreuse...
Swim jigs+ chatterbaits: black and blue, bluegill, and white.
I'm with you farmer. I spent years driving myself crazy trying to figure out the perfect color in every situation. I now know that having the above basics will do the job, providing I do mine.
WRB reply :
Interesting, the Rage claw with the ridge is what is claimed in the patent. If the that patent holds water, the knock off may be in trouble with Strike King.On 9/8/2015 at 8:15 AM, A-Jay said:Brown & Orange you say ? These may be of interest ~
A-Jay
Good looking trailer and color combo.
Tom
poisonokie reply :
On 9/8/2015 at 8:15 AM, A-Jay said:Brown & Orange you say ? These may be of interest ~
A-Jay
If those were black instead of green and blue instead of white with those orange tips that would look almost exactly like the craws in my area.
A-Jay reply :
On 9/9/2015 at 5:24 AM, poisonokie said:If those were black instead of green and blue instead of white with those orange tips that would look almost exactly like the craws in my area.
It's a Paul Krew's Custom pour and you can get whatever you want.
A-Jay
Ginosocalbass reply :
i throw the basic 4 colors. including swimjigs...
Buy some Spike-It markers and color your skirt/trailer as you see fit. save yourself the $
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