Let's Talk Head Colors

[skiptomylu]

Will say I tied a huge number of Ginger body with Purple tails and a Silver head for years. The guy was a guide and used this color combo a lot.

Skip
These were 1/32 Oz and The Ginger has some Gold Crystal in it, the pic is not the best to show that.

[SuperDave336]

Those look great Skip! Guess I need to use more ginger now in my jigs.

[fish_4_any]

For spawning periods, wouldn't a candy color transparent powder paint work wonders? Would seem like a bug, fishing or something was trying to eat the eggs.

[Slabprowler]

I throw pink 90+ % of the time sometimes it may not matter and other times i think it makes a big difference. But that’s my confidence color along with the other 6-8 colors I use .

[TreednNC]

Don’t overlook the “naturals”

Still need to do more R&D but I think I might be on to something here. They’ve been biting other colors too good for me to put too much time into this though.

[TreednNC]

^^^^^ Dark/ natural colors work well for me in this lake. Black heads or a white head with a black body have always reigned supreme. This idea comes from some jigs an older gentleman gave me years ago before plastic molds were available and affordable to the public. He melted old bass plastics down, primarily green pumpkin/motoroil/watermelon seed type colors, and poured into a mold he made from bongo with drill bits and a little dremeling. Crude but he always had a limit.

[skiptomylu]

Those look great Skip! Guess I need to use more ginger now in my jigs.

That guide friend fishes this jig in deep water, I know as deep as 20' to 25' as he did here when he visited this lake. Uses a weight in front of it to fish on the bottom and does very well doing that.

Skip

[TheRo0sTer]

When crappie go deep, do you all typically see a size change?

I love the color combos that you all have posted from page 3 to page 5. Nice work Skip and Treed!

[GrumpyLoomis]

feel the deeper fish are larger. smaller fish seem to be scattered above the fish of a school.

[TheRo0sTer]

feel the deeper fish are larger. smaller fish seem to be scattered above the fish of a school.

I just read my question and I worded it completely incorrectly. What I meant to ask... When the fish go deeper, do you see the size of your jigs going up?