"GO TO" jig head color

**LAHooligan** · 05-22-2017, 04:00 PM

Originally Posted by MidMsAngler

I really think that the head color has the least effect

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I'm sure it does but last Friday I caught 6 to 1 against my buddy and we were both using the same body,color and fishing at the same depth. I actually switched rods for one with only mono to cast out further than the braid and notta. It had the same chartreuse head as my buddy. I retied with a green head and on the first cast, BOOM. The only problem is the green worked better than chartreuse then but I didn't try white, red, orange, black or any others so maybe something else would have done even better.

**Tony the Tiger** · 05-22-2017, 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by Bricks

80% of my Crappie jig heads are not painted of which I use 90% of the time. I find changing jig weights, and plastic colors does more for me then jig head color.

Same here

**Spaceman** · 05-22-2017, 07:07 PM

Plain lead. Change weight for conditions and presentation.

**skeetbum** · 05-22-2017, 07:52 PM

Nekked, almost 100%.

**Locator79** · 05-22-2017, 07:57 PM

It's all about the business end

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**pab1981** · 05-22-2017, 08:38 PM

May not matter on some bodies of water, but some see more pressure and have different water conditions than others. I don't have a single favorite jig head color but have several different ones that I use with certain tails. I vertical jig with a rod in each hand and have tested it extensively, it makes a bigger difference than most might believe. At least on the lakes I fish Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake.

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**NIMROD** · 05-23-2017, 07:20 AM

All I use are insert heads on tubes so they are all unpainted as they don't show anyway .

**ibmack** · 05-23-2017, 08:09 AM

100% unpainted. usually catch more than I want to clean, so see no reason to waste time changing jig heads when I could have my jig in the water

**ET Fish** · 05-23-2017, 08:26 AM

I bought five different colors of powder paint. I enjoy messing around with it, and I am getting better. That being said, I tie on a color or an unpainted head and fish until I lose it or it gets beyond use. I lost a fish on the way to the boat yesterday, and I blamed the hook (couldn't have been me!), so it got changed. Bottom line, I put more faith in the body than the head color. The most important thing to me is a red #2 sickle.

**Roy** · 05-23-2017, 12:56 PM

Hands down florescent pink works best in the bodies of water I fish, especially when the water is cooler.

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