What's you alls experience with catching fish on an olive colored jig? I fish Lake D'Arbonne a lot in Louisiana and the water is a moderate stained color most of the year, very seldom really clear.
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What's you alls experience with catching fish on an olive colored jig? I fish Lake D'Arbonne a lot in Louisiana and the water is a moderate stained color most of the year, very seldom really clear.
assuming that you are referring to a green olive, I think that it would work great. It would be similar to the color pumpkin seed, I have used a pumpkin seed/chartreuse colored tube jig with great success in reelfoot and some of the surrounding water sheds.
I like olive,I use it more on gills and trout although crappie will eat it as well.
i use alot of olive....used up a oz of it in the past 2 weeks....i really like the color combo olive/brown
Olive in one way or another do well and have a good number of customers that like Olive, but most with something else in them.
Skip
I had planned on using brown or chart with green olive and just wanted some info before I purchased some. Before I tied my own jigs I did pretty well on a baby bass colored bobby garland shad and plan to mimic it's coloration some. Thanks for the info guys.
Clark
I would give it a try for sure and maybe even take a marker and put a black line down the side??? I have some that has other colors in it as well that I use with a Golden Olive marabou tail and I like that color and plan on giving it a try this spring.Quote:
Originally Posted by waxnslabs
Skip
Olive works well on bass, bream, and trout. Never tried it for crappie
How do you put an olive on a jig? :confused: Maybe carp bait? :p:D
Olive is killer for large & small mouth bass... never really tried it for crappie. Does work well for gills too so don't see why it wouldn't work for crappie as long as you find the fish. ;)
add orange;)
JJ
either a black head or a charteruse head on olive bodies are great. in wv mountains we use the charteruse head one and its called a green hornet
The olive color and Pup's post about making a baby bass jig got me remembering......
The first time i ever caught crappie from a certain small 25 acre lake was by catching small baby bass (olive/white in color ;)) and putting them back on a hook and casting them out under a bobber. I was actually hoping to catch a big ol' bass because I kept seeing the schools of baby bass trying to leap from the water to avoid getting eaten. The bass fry were everywhere and happy to feed on anything that hit the water. I tied a #12 small dry fly about 2" above a treble hook and would snag bass fry when needed. That was without a doubt the day i got hooked on crappie.......:)
Come to think of it, I need to tie me some jigs in olive!!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW - PBUG2009, you need to post a pic of the jig in your avatar, looks like one sweet a$$ jig!
thanks man i will have to find that pic again or take another thats my silver daddy jig i call it. also was looking at the different type of olive colored jigs theres like 4 different shades of olive i see... i usually tie either the lite olive and dark olive...for it has produced more rainbows than any other fish