glow plastics

**crappieseeker** · 01-06-2012, 07:25 PM

seems weird to read this because red I know once was a popular color in my area when the water was muddy.

**jaxsprat** · 01-06-2012, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by snake River

information that may shock you we found out many years ago fishing in muddy water that most of the colors that I was using did not work I made up a plastic jig that was chocolate color that were terrific don't know why but they seem to like that shade of brown morsels in white or chartreuse or any other color combination you may give that a try and try the chocolate brown to see if it works for you in muddy water I made and it was closer to a cup of coffee that you added milk to to get that shade of brown .

Small mouth bass in a stained dirty river water love a jig, a big medium brown head with blk/brown or Blk/blue plastic here in Illinois. I always start with the medium brown not tan jig head and 85% of time stay with it. Brown is a winner in nasty water in my book at least for smallmouth, for crappie I usually go with chartreuse & black but maybe I just learned something --time to try/find brown body with chartreuse tail.....................

**crappieslab** · 01-06-2012, 08:57 PM

Well I guess I will have to try the brown/chart and black/blue and the idea I have and see what works. Every year in the spring the water turns muddy after the rains in spring.

Thanks for the replies and I will let every one know what works.

**snake River** · 01-07-2012, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by jaxsprat

Small mouth bass in a stained dirty river water love a jig, a big medium brown head with blk/brown or Blk/blue plastic here in Illinois. I always start with the medium brown not tan jig head and 85% of time stay with it. Brown is a winner in nasty water in my book at least for smallmouth, for crappie I usually go with chartreuse & black but maybe I just learned something --time to try/find brown body with chartreuse tail.....................

yes I like Brown's because they are natural in color to the fish most fishermen like something that looks Purdy and not natural tell you one thing the others that I made in Brown's nobody would ever want them they were definitely ugly but they sure did catch fish especially in that muddy water.

**snake River** · 01-07-2012, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by crappieslab

Well I guess I will have to try the brown/chart and black/blue and the idea I have and see what works. Every year in the spring the water turns muddy after the rains in spring.

Thanks for the replies and I will let every one know what works.

the Browns may not look good with other colors but the fish have something else to do about that because of the natural color to them.

**CTom** · 01-07-2012, 10:25 PM

A friend is a professional photographer and took these pics tonight of the glow baits I am making. Of the three, the one that gave him the biggest headache was the one that does the best job of glowing, the green one. The red and purple seem like they are the strongest glowers, but the green is. It glowed so bright that he had to make all kinds of adjustments to quiet it down to shoot it and now it looks splotchy. In the hand, the green is a great color. They all are. Keep this in perspective....these are only 1" long.

**Percidae_Papermouth** · 01-07-2012, 11:35 PM

WOW!!!! those look great CTom! The purple is so bright it almost makes me nauseous! Crazy Good looking jig.

**CTom** · 01-08-2012, 04:55 AM

These were photographed by putting a small dab of super glue to the head ends and sticking a super small, thin wire hook to hang each of these, one at a time, in a darkened light box. The camera was on a tripod and focused while the room was light, the shutter was remotely controlled. The plastic would get the charge, the lights turned off and when the plastic had se ttled a little, the remote was pushed to shoot the pic. The plastics were so light in weight that the activity of shuttling off the light even required a second person or the air in the room would set it in motion simply by walking past the light box. You'll notice how the tails seem to fade out on a couple....that was the tail actually having spun around to the rear a little and went out of focus. These three pics took over an hour to get. lol When the pics hit the computer, any visible portion of the wire was editted out of the pic.

One other aspect in the pics too is that the red and purple pigments are as fine as or finer than talcum powder while the green tends to be grainier and coarser. The green does however make it all the way into the whip end of the tail, just hard to see and get on film.

The glow purple is my all-around favorite glow color for crappies.

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