I use a June bug body and chartreuse tail when I troll
Does anybody just use the normal bass colors or variations of them for crappie? I'm talking colors like green pumpkin, watermelon, , black with blue flake, bluefleck, smoke purple, rootbeer pepper green, redbug, junebug etc. I've made a lot of different colors for crappie & just wondered why not keep it sort of natural especially when the waters clear. At night bass fishing i only use variations of green pumpkin, junebug, black with blue flake & redbug. I add red flake to green pumpkin, junebug & watermelon in bright moonlight & just wondered about how staying with the same bass colors would work? Yep i'm sitting here bored.
I use a June bug body and chartreuse tail when I troll
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Had a lot of luck using Junebug/chartreuse, but haven't used any of the other colors mentioned for Crappie. I do find myself catching a lot of Bass when throwing my pink Road Runners, though.
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I agree. Can't go wrong with Junebug/Chart or any Chartreuse.
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When I use to pour my own jigs or what I call jelly bellies, I would buy bass worms like the colors you mentioned, and melt them down and pour them. Always had good luck with them. Especially colors that everybody else was not using.
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Back before DIY plastic molds were mainstream and affordable, I knew some older gentlemen that made their own with bondo, very crude, almost stick baitish looking baits, but somehow managed to taper the tails down. They would go to the flea markets and buy bags of misc bass plastics, and pick up the ramp parking lot garbage that often got tossed when they bass guys would rig or clean out the boat, and melt them.
A lot of times they were a redbug color, watermelon seed, green pumpkin, etc. These fellows absolutely smashed crappie.
Junebug, green pumkin , and watermelon all work well for me.
Colors only important to fishermen except in extremely muddy water then dark or bright colors . I see on livescope presentation ,means 99% and holding it on their nose . They just need to see it and no wild jigging .
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