I'd be perfectly happy with nothing but solid white and solid chartreuse. If you can't catch fish on those two, take up golf.
With so many colors and combinations, how do you decide what to use for Crappie?
I usually stick to like 2 combinations, but there are kits with tons of colors. How many color combinations do I need to carry?
Matt
I'd be perfectly happy with nothing but solid white and solid chartreuse. If you can't catch fish on those two, take up golf.
3 Or 4 colors at the most. I got boxes full of colors, but only use 2 or 3 most of the time, they are my stand by colors.
Hello Matt
Some good colors you should try if you have not already is blue/white or blue/chart, black/white or black/chart, solid chart, chart with glitter and white. Since you are in the north east part of the world these are colors I used to do good on in NJ when I lived up that way. If the water you fish is mostly clear or a little green these are great colors. - "Keep The Great Outdoors Great"
I have lots of colors, and carry assassins, Bobby garlands, and curl tails. All have their time and place, and it's usually when fishing is tough that I get into oddball colors. that's also when I stumble into something that works that I would never have guessed. Natural colors do the job most of the time, and what everyone else has posted also has merit. I just can't get by the thought that what I didn't have with me might have been what it took to do the job that day. I could probably get by on a shirt pocket box on most days, but I carry 4 of the medium Plano boxes, 3 as stated above and another full of lead heads I pour. I don't want when I go, and give some away when I'm there and hopefully help a newbie now and then.
Not near as many as most think IMO
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I use electric chicken, pink pearl, blue thunder, white tube and popsicle most of the time. I did buy an assortment of other colors that I rarely use.
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Personally I have about 5 or 6 that are my confidence baits and much has to do with water clarity, cloudy or sunny. The main thing is to believe in what you tie on!
I dunno....I use alot of them figuring out what they want. I have 2 boxes of colors. Here's one of 'em....
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