Wild Colors!

[liftbite56]

I'm new to the site but not to the addition of fly tying.Yes I got it bad,and then I started a business. I still love to sit down at my table and create I kinda go zone out...its my happy place...I have a feeling I'm not alone in that catagory! Then I find this site after being introduced to long trolling...my home lake is a hidden secret with few guides, and a great fishery...maybe better than Weiss Ala. The lake is void of structure but a great bait fish population. Which supports a very fine Crappie population! One of the local guides is a very close friend, sponcered by Big Bite and he really opened my eye's. The colors of jig heads, and soft plastic's has blown my mind....electric chicken, popcicle, acid rain, prom dress, on and on...I first looked at those colors and said to myself...self, these crappie people have done gone and lost their ever loving minds!!!!!Nothin is gona bite those weird lookin jigs, boy was I so wrong!!!!So while I'm catching my breath....till the fall I'm going to start working on 7 prototypes to use this fall and winter.I may toy with a fly with a soft plastic (grub body) marabou tail...we shall see... I started pouring soft plastic's and making my own RTV molds. I hope I can continue gleening from you experts and I can maybe expand .....bottom line I found a new love in the long troll....hope it turns into something....maybe part time guiding when I retire. Later Liftbite P.S.My Bass fishing days may be numbered!!!

[skiptomylu]

Well I don't even remember giving you a proper welcome so here it is....
From Toledo Bend Texas!

I started to long line troll in the late 1970's and still it's my favorite way to fish for crappie in the spring and fall. Fish see way more shades of colors than we do so it's hard to know what they see when we drop some jig in front of them so we have to just try stuff until we find the one that day or sometimes week.

I just read an article a friend sent me this week and in that article the guy referenced some people that study fish and they said that Crappie are the 2nd smartest fish that they study. He states they respond quickly to fishing pressure even faster than Bass do. They are very abundant making them seem dumb because it's possible to catch 100 in a setting. The truth is however there are probable thousands where you caught that 100 and many big ones that simply will not bite anything suspicious.

So change of color may really help a lot at times.

Skip

[PA_Slabs]

The truth is however there are probable thousands where you caught that 100 and many big ones that simply will not bite anything suspicious.
Skip

They don't get big by being stupid. LOL! When ice fishing for slabs, I use a flasher. It is amazing how many fish will sit a just below your offering. My largest slabs are either appear and immediately strike with no hesitation or they will sit and study. There is no inbetween. When they sit and study, that fish can sit there for what feels like hrs. I don't keep track of the rates but it isn't high for the larger marked fish...

[mncrappie35]

what color is prom dress and where can I find a pic so i can see it?

[liftbite56]

got to find the picture that was show to me, here is the color combination...soft plastic grub, Junebug, with gold glitter, and emerald glitter inside