Favorite chartreuse color?

[Doninva]

Do you find the yellow or green chartreuse gets more bites with crappie jigs. Thanks,Don

[Takeum]

Both work great really,,,but I’m no professional,,,,

[shipahoy41]

I like lime chart.reuse. No expert. Just an opinion.

[DrNip]

I have always preferred fluorescent green chartreuse. Doesn’t really matter though.

[skeetbum]

Both being hi vis I don’t think there’s lots of difference. Our personal preference is probably more the issue as both catch fish. I know I’ve seen and probably used both on the same jig. The Shad jig that I show in another post is flo yellow but that was used to try and copy an old standard that used regular yellow. With our tannic water I thought the extra visibility would help some.

[ksnouf]

I like the older yellow Chartreuse...new newer seems more green.

[Micanopy]

When we see colors, what we are really seeing is a reflection of light. If an object reflects blue light, we see the object as being blue. If it absorbs blue light but reflects red, well we say the object is red.

Visible light comes from the Sun and it provides us with the ability to see the world around us. Everything that doesn’t live in a cave uses vision at some level to find food or a mate. Visible light is predominate during the day, but there is another light that is hidden from us as we go about our day. UV light.

UV light will burn our skin, destroy our plastic lures and the dashboards of our cars. It is very powerful and is the first and last light we see each day. Visible light has to be aimed at us by the Sun, but UV can sneak in at an angle and that is why it lights the sky first. You can see this effect if you watch and pay attention.

UV light is present all day every day. If the Sun is shining we are getting UV light. We do not usually notice it because once the Sun’s rays are directly at us most of the day. The visible light overwhelms what we are able to see. Visible light shows us colors, but the UV is still there anyways. Our Hi Vis line is UV reflective and will tattle when UV light is able to be seen by our eyes. That is prior to Sunrise and after Sunset, and on overcast days. Our eyes have evolved, or were designed, to shield us from UV light during the day. This to allow us to protect our retinas from it’s damaging effects. Crappie are not designed in this fashion and when the UV light becomes too strong seek shelter from it. They dive deeper or hide under docks and such.

They use UV light as an advantage when seeing minnows. They can look up and see the minnows using their ability to see UV light. The minnows stand out. We noticed this about crappie and use it to pattern them. We fish early and we fish late. There is a period of time where the eyes of the minnows must adjust from day to night vision. For a while their vision is hindered, but not the crappie’s vision. This small advantage works very well for them during moments of transition.

In fact each evening there is about a minute of time in which everything takes on a different shade of color. I call it the magic time as even our skin will look different. Then it goes away. That is the visible light retreating and allowing the UV light to be seen by our eyes. You have seen this many times but you have to pay attention. Set out some chartreuse jigs on the deck and watch hos they appear as the Sun sets, but it is still light out.

Well UV light can penetrate the clouds on cloudy days better than visible, and it can penetrate the water better than visible light. Fish use UV light to a larger extent than we do. They see differently than we do. Crappie are especially keen to use UV light and that brings us back to the original question. Both chartreuse yellow and chartreuse green are highly UV reflective and very visible to crappie underwater, but which is best ?

Yellow is brighter than the green and so in certain bodies of water more easily seen. Other lakes maybe the green is allowed to show better. Either way it is their UV reflective properties that make them stars in our arsenals. I use one of the visible colors for the head and the body, and a UV reflective for the tail. Yellow being my first choice.

[longhunter]

I use the green more. No science behind it, other than a visual for me. I don't think the fish care.

[CrappieRage]

In MN yellow chartreuse is way better.

[skiptomylu]

I like both, but my favorite is some I special ordered that is kind of between the FL Yellow and the FL Chartreuse which is kind of a FL Green.

I feel it's more of a real Chartreuse. Here is a pic kind of showing it.

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Not the best picture, but think you can get the idea. I love this shade when the sun is out and hits it coming through the water. The pic is FL Yellow/FL Chartreuse and then my special order.