Purple/ chartreuse tail

On the last couple trips to the local lake this color combo has been IT. If whatever was on the jig for plastic was purple with a chartreuse tail you'd catch crappies. Or smallies. Or white bass. Or walleyes. I tried maybe 15 other color combos yesterday and caught exactly one fish. Change back the purple beast and wham.

This is a male who is just ever so slightly changing to the dark color. Water temps in this lake are well short of spawning temps but the males out in deep, structured water are starting to color up so the shift won't be far behind unless we get a late cold shot like Minnesota is famous for and the water takes a 20 degree hit. Its happened....I've seen it many times. But this guy is getting ready.....

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The fish here is just short of 13" Females get larger in this lake and one I got a few years back was a hair under the 17" mark. Most of what I have been catch right now are in this 11" to strong 12" sizes. Smaller fish are just not being seen, but I'm sure they're there.

Yep....been trying to tell you guys thats a great color combo

purple and chartreuse has always been a good color combination.

Purple/Chartreuse is one of my go to colors within the last year.

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Purple has been the big color for me this year too! Looks good

I love purple and chartreuse add a little pink and you got a killer.

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What seems like a million years ago, I got my start in plastic baits around 1976 fishing walleyes. Back then plastic was far different from what we have today. Right around 1981 or 82 I started to get serious with crappies and began journaling my fishing on our local lake. A part of the journal entries followed what bait was used on each trip. At first it was live bait, but then one morning I un-hooked a snag for a shore fisherman and saw what he'd been hammering crappies with as I picked my way along shore with minnows. His catch count eclipsed mine. When I got him out of the snag and saw the purple/clear glitter tube on the jig I knew I was in trouble.

Long story short. I went back to town and found those tubes and bought every pack in that color. The next trip to the lake was way over the edge in the catching department so when I got home that morning the Bass Pro catalog came out and I ordered 2 packs of each color they offered in the 1 1/2" size tubes.....cost me over $400.00! When they got to the house, I made my mind up that bait was not going to come with me for a year and that I was going to force myself to learn this plastics stuff. And I did. Some days I did well, some stunk pretty bad. Then came 2" twisters and an expanded learning curve.

Along about 1997 I went to work with Culprit as a staff person on the Crappie tackle side of the company and my love affair with paddletails began, especially that purple colored wonder with the green glitter and chartreuse tail: the junebug color. I stayed with Culprit until about 7 years ago when the crappie tackle side of the company began to sag and the decision to vacate the crappie tackle was made. That's when I began to inject my own baits. One of my wishes all along was that Culprit would make or offer a bold purple transparent with the chartreuse tail, but since Culprit had not and I now could.... well the rest is history.

The purple most all of you have seen in my everyday purple/chartreuse is a blended color using both purple X2 colorant and M-F Indigo, some purple and blue glitter and violet hi lites as well as the uv enhancer powder. Its a deep, transparent purple and the fish everywhere I've dunked it love it. Stained water, dirty water, clear water....doesn't matter. I have never fished a more consistent bait color combo....ever. And this color scheme slides right down into the walleye area as well with equal effectiveness. If I ran out of this color while crappie fishing I would pack it in for the day.

I've shown this before but will again for those who haven't seen it. This is the purple I make.

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The only color combo I use