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I fish northern Indiana, southern michigan, northern minnesota, reelfoot kentucky lake truman lake norfork res.. Got to thinking if a guy was going to fish crappie all over the United States what all colors would he need? I basicly carry five colors White, chartruse, pink, blue and black. I carry all in solid colors and mixtures; both in plastics and hand ties. What would you add to the selection or what do you carry?
Better get some grey in there.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!- Silver -!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Silver head - Silver tinsel chenille - Gray bou or zonker tail.
Orange and brown I would add
Gotta have some orange in there.
Orange is also good for other species (walleye, smallies, white bass, perch)
if the crappies are not cooperating.
Add gray,yellow and orange. Orange and chartreuse combination is killer here early in the morning or around dusk.
pumkin-pepper/cht---- blue/cht
Gotta go with the orange/chartruese and cotton candy hot pink w/green &purple flake.
Another thing you really need to check is those states that don't allow lead jigs or the jigs have to be a certain size!!!!!
Fatman
Lead head, gray or silver chenille, and a gray maribou with a light touch of black maribou on the hook point side, maybe a little red flash in there too. Good shad or minnow pattern that put's a lot of fish in my boat. Pearl flash works good too. 1/32 and 1/16 with red hooks.
If I had to whittle it down to just a few colors or color combo's I would leave out these (not the only ones I would need, but to cut it)....
Silver/Blue/White (not getting on the water with out these) an late spring after water clears some.
Chart/Blue/Chart (early spring here this is best one)
My newest addition to killer for sure...Silver/Silver/Blue
FL Red/Kelly Green/Fl Yellow Been using that for over 35 years.
I could keep going, but will just stop with my Black Widow and you can see it on my site, but Black/FL Yellow & Black Variegated/Black, got to have something for dark water and after dark..
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