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[Flyrod Bob]

To me junebug, in the worm colors has always been a purple color. I am curious to why you dip it in black. They are perfect in my book, they have killer lately. With muddy water @ a foot visbilty.

I am curious to what you dip them in, are you using spike-it? And if you are, do dip before you get on the water or while you are fishing.

Try dippin' em in good ole Irish Whiskey. The crappies will come and hang around your pub and suck it in. If the whiskey don't work, try a bit 'o Irish beer.

[whizkids]

To me junebug, in the worm colors has always been a purple color. I am curious to why you dip it in black. They are perfect in my book, they have killer lately. With muddy water @ a foot visbilty.

I am curious to what you dip them in, are you using spike-it? And if you are, do dip before you get on the water or while you are fishing.

I use spike - it. Why? Just because I like to experiment. I do it before
I go on the water. I may take any color and just take 3 or 4 and change the body hue or the tail hue. I carry spike - it in the boat and if they get on it, I can make more. If I don't catch anything, I just toss them when I get back home. I do this long linning, usually in the spring when fish are very active. I believe you can trigger a bite from a larger fish in the school your are working by varying color and presenting something unusual. You may also
not catch anything. But when trolling 12 rods which I do, it doesn't hurt to keep something unusual on two or three of them, especially if you have depth dialed in. I can be catching fish on a certain color and I will change everything just to see what happens. I just don't believe that there is only one color the fish will hit at a certain time. Attend any tournament weigh in and see how many different lures caught fish on that lake that day and many of them were fishing within sight of each other.
Anyway, I just like to experiment. To me red/chart is the very best color if I had to chose just one color, next is black/chart. I may did the whole thing in green or black and wipe it real quick with a paper towl so it don't take full color.
I take the feeeding by site stuff to heart. crappie and Bass are members of the same family. There has been a tremendous amount of research on bass feeding habits. You are probably familar with the way to tell how deep color hue can be determined by a bass. Drop a white spinner bait down on the sunny side of the boat until you can't see it. Supposedly bass only need 1/4 of the light humans need to distinguish hue. So multiply that depth by 4
and you supposedly have the maximum depth that a bass can determine hue.
Can a crappie see better than a bass? I don't know. I have been searching for a scientific paper on pomoxis nigromaculatus ( black crappie) that deals with sight, but I haven't found one yet.
I do know from my own experience las Saturday that at 16 feet in turbid water, crappie favored a pink jig over a red one, a green one, a black one, and an unpainted one. All in 1/32 oz.. all with no plastic just a minnow. Out of
26 fish the pink one caught 14 and that jig was only on 3 rods out of eight. All at the same depth. I think color matters. I also believe that even different shades of the same color will make a difference. Therefore the dipping in spike it.
Sorry for the long post.

[TAE73]

I totally agree color is everything on a crappie, I was just curious if you thought there was something wrong with junebug the way it comes.

Here is where you can buy them direct, they cost a little more. But worth it I think for the free samples.

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[whizkids]

I was just curious if you thought there was something wrong with junebug the way it comes.

I thought mine were lighter than the 1-1/2 I had. They may have been faded as I bought them from a local store. It appears to me as if some manufacters are produing a neutral color and then dying them to demand. This dye fades
even when keep out of the sun. I had some red and some pink fade to white
and every chart tail in about 15 colors faded. I don't think dye holds up as weel as injected color. Injection may cost much more. I know I won't purchase hundred packs anymore.

[TAE73]

Yeah, I have had to throw away some jigs. Because after time the colors bleed together. Certain colors seem to bleed together when others dont.

[Tim The Lippa Rippa Mon]

If anyones interested, I am a Field Tester for Fish Formula. They make, as well as many other items, acid dyes for plastics in several different colors. These dyes do not have any added scent such as Spike its do, but they hold their colors very well after dipping. The Chartreuse is my favorite, folowed by lime, Pink, and Blue. PM me if anyone wants to talk about ordering some. This stuff is why a lot of my tails I buy just have a clear sparkle tail. IMO, the dye makes for a more intense body color than the original plastic pigments.

So ends my info mercial! :D
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