What are then key factors to concider when designing and tying a jig?
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What are then key factors to concider when designing and tying a jig?
Confidence -color-profileAND ORIGINALITY
Donald is for sure right about the confidence and who ever is using it had better be confident in what they are using or they will not stick with it long enough. They will also work it better because they will have patience in it.
Colors are really important and the water color and clarity will have a lot to say about that. A little experience helps a lot too.
I'm from a brown trout fly background (somber colored flies) and after looking at crappie jigs in this forum, the thing that stands out is the gaudyness of the color combos used for crappies. With crappies, is the most important thing to make the lure so it is easily seen?
I'm sure there are many other key factors, such as size, shape and the impression of live prey.
I dont tie, but I'd have to say "yes". Seems anything with chartruese works pretty good most of the time.Thumbs Up
I wondered about the difference in the number of rod and cones in a crappie eye compared to a trout eye and found this:
Dr. Keith Jones, Pure Fishing Research Director and a world renowned expert on fish behavior, provided this insight into color: “Different fish species differ considerably in what colors they can see, and hence what colors they see best. Fish like bass, bluegill, crappie, walleye, and perch are mostly limited to the spectral range of red-orange and yellow-green. They have very little if any color vision in the range of blue and violet. Their best color vision (i.e. the area where they have the best discrimination between fine differences in color hue) typically peaks in the range of red-orange, with a secondary peak in the yellow-green range. Fish like trout and carp have a broader range of color vision.
Well the good doctor is going to miss a lot of crappie by not fishing with the colors of black, blue (dark and light), pink and purple. My knowledge comes form catching crappie in different colors of water, light and the temperature range of the water and along with all the others here that tie and fish crappie jigs here on Crappie.com. I agree that red has its place in tying jigs but I don't see it as one of the best colors for crappie. The orange, yellows and greens would fall into the top colors to use on a crappie jig but not always the best in different waters. It's amazing what a little color change will do for catching crappie that are not wanting to bite, say change from a orange head to a blue or a chartreuse tail to a purple. And we have not even talked about White.
Have to agree with Stump Hunter on this one. One of my favorite color combos in spring once the water clears here a little is Silver/Blue/White and it will cats them by the boat load. Also Silver/Silver/Blue is very good at the same time. Before it clears this much my favorite is Chart/Blue/Chart. Then another great color combo is Black/Blue/Black which about 3 weeks I could a 16" crappie night fishing. Have some customers that buy lots of Black/Blue/Black and aware by it!
Courage and plenty of it !
Don't overthink it. Just tie a chartreuse wooly bugger without the hackle. That'll catch crappie anywhere in the country.Quote:
Originally Posted by troutingintas