• Do you got The Summertime Blues ?

    Sometimes , this time of year , the heat of the summer and the lack of aggressive bites when you hit the water can give a fella the summertime blues .
    I had a case of it recently myself , got to the ole dock on my lunchbreak and pitched out an orange headed black and chart plastic ....
    They liked it , but not in any way shape or form over abundantly and the fish hitting it were really small . I might have managed a 9 incher and several 5 inchers and I grew bored with it quickly .
    So what's a fella to do without a LS unit to "put it on their nose" ?
    Simple ....make the fish come to YOU ! I preach this non stop and some just can't seem to understand using a lure to lure fish .....funny how simple it can be and yet complex at the same time .
    I only had 3 jigs total with me , one on my rod , 2 in my watch pocket .....
    one was as stated was black and chart , one was red and chart and one was ....
    BLUE and white .....
    I coupled that blue and white with a blue jig head when I decided to see if there might be a better bite on a different color ....EVEN though we all know it Don't matter ....
    AND just like that Johnny B Ketchn BIG crappie FAST !
    KABOOM KABOOM KABOOM .....
    6 lb mono , and a lil short Shakespeare ugly stick and that there Summertime Blue jig got it done , 12 fow a water and VERY slowly rising was the ticket , left them biting ....
    and if you said to me you needed to use a blue and white twin tail on this visit , silly me would have thought you were clueless ....go figure right ...
    until I find them again , on a steel horse I ride ...
    just saying

    This article was originally published in forum thread: Do you got The Summertime Blues ? started by Ketchn View original post
    Comments 4 Comments
    1. SuperDave336's Avatar
      SuperDave336 -
      I believe in color changes too and I have seen with my eyes the results of that magic color.
    1. BuckeyeCrappie's Avatar
      BuckeyeCrappie -
    1. hdhntr's Avatar
      hdhntr -
      it really cracks me up when I see supposedly good guides who fish for a living claiming " of course color don't matter" on their video's when we all have seen times that when you change to something totally different bite suddenly turns on. As you point out varying your presentation whether in moving jig swimming or gradually rising or falling can trigger bites when stationary didn't getrdone.
    1. Barnacle Bill's Avatar
      Barnacle Bill -
      Lots of varibles that will work one day but not the next.
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