I haven't posted here much lately, as life has gotten in the way the past few years. Starting a family, and being married has really made me look at the things I want versus need, and the things I keep around versus sale/toss out, etc that I don't use or need. Now that has brought me to the aspect of jigs.

I notice a lot of people here, heck most that tie, post a wide variety of beautiful, well crafted, colorful jigs. We all know if there is one species of fish that "requires" a lot of different colors, it's the crappie. I got to thinking, I've got a pretty good variety of tieing materials in several colors as well, but I could probably still catch 95% of the fish I catch if I just had white, black, and yellow/chartruse heads, red, white, or black thread, and chartuse/yellow, white, and black tail material, and if I wanted more body, white, red, chartruse/yellow and black chenille.

Pink is another I'd throw in the list of possibles, even though I don't require it.

I've caught on blue, but I think if I had any other color on, I could have done just as well.

Ive caught on orange, actually one of my larger crappies came off of a 1/64oz orange and yellow marabou.

I need to re-up some supplies, get rid of older stuff that is just brittle/dry rotted, and got to thinking, heck I could probably get by with just a couple of colors total and be perfectly happy. Sure they don't appeal to the eye as much or get that WOW factor, but they still put 95% of the fish in the boat that I catch, probably more. I always think though, "they've probably seen this color combo come by them 1,000,000 times. I should probably try something theyve never seen"....occasionally I do, but most of the time, if they're not hitting what I give em, they won't hit it if I change it up.