White Jigs

I started implementing a lot of white in my tying the past year and noticed that of all my other colors, it's the most productive. I googled a few sites and on every single one there was a paragraph talking about white being the best universal color for crappie year round due to the overall good visibility/color contrast from season to season. Just curious to see what you all thought. Favorable or nonfavorable

-W-

Favorable. Not my favorite color but when things quit working it pays to give white a try, has saved the day for me more than a few times.

White is in my top three favorites although I rarely make just a plain white jig.Usually I have it in a combination with another color.

White is the most common color to use on jigs for crappie fishing.personally I use white quite often but it is not my favorite color gray in chartreuse is when it comes to fishing for crappie for myself I personally think that crappie or more after action then color. I know this is a big thing with a lot of the guys and most people if they are catching fish on a certain color everybody else's act to follow. To prove my point we have finished side-by-side with other fishermen when we were fishing for crappie I was using a black and red jig they were using green and white they were using tube jigs they were not catching anything at all. I was using a hair jig in the black and red and I was catching plenty of fish it proves my point about color in action of materials.

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Originally Posted by snake River

White is the most common color to use on jigs for crappie fishing.personally I use white quite often but it is not my favorite color gray in chartreuse is when it comes to fishing for crappie for myself I personally think that crappie or more after action then color. I know this is a big thing with a lot of the guys and most people if they are catching fish on a certain color everybody else's act to follow. To prove my point we have finished side-by-side with other fishermen when we were fishing for crappie I was using a black and red jig they were using green and white they were using tube jigs they were not catching anything at all. I was using a hair jig in the black and red and I was catching plenty of fish it proves my point about color in action of materials.

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I would have to agree with you on the action thing. I tie marabous and it's really amazing, seen a dramatic difference in the quickness of getting strikes. I usually have silver mixed in with white, but do well with all white too. Good info fellas, thanks for the replys.

Clark

White and pink or white and chartreuse are winning combination colors.

I like white too. I think the fish can just plain see it better. Probably 50% of the jigs that I tie are white or with white in them.

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Originally Posted by shipahoy41

White and pink or white and chartreuse are winning combination colors.

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same here

JJ

White is my second favorite color, right behind chartreuse. The clearer the water, the more I like white.

I think everyone has a few white ones in their box. If you think back to the old Doll Fly's they had white ones' and they sold alot of them.

Fatman

Your post is interesting because I was fishing today and I happened upon an old fishing pal of mine. We fished side by side and he kicked my but with white trimmed with red 1/32. I had one white and pink 1/16. He caught 20 or 30 and I wound up with 11 keepers. So I am ordering some white powder paint tonight.
BTW the fish were suspended at 22 ft. over 35- 38 feet of water.

White tail red body is the go to color here for crappie.

As for white being a determining factor, maybe, but I personally think that experience, feel, method of fishing and other factors play a much larger role than color in a lot of cases. Sometimes color makes all the difference but in normal situations a person who knows what they are doing can catch fish on bare hooks before someone using the "best" expensive lures and has no clue will catch anything.

Of course if you have the wrong color type for the situtation you are fishing in no amount of experience will compensate for it.

White's Are Good Ones..........


Cm

If this lake is pretty clear (Clear here for us) and the sun is out my first color is Silver/Lt. Blue/White and have a few customers that only buy that combo every year. It will work other time too, but especially well under the conditions above.

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Originally Posted by fish_4_all

White tail red body is the go to color here for crappie.

As for white being a determining factor, maybe, but I personally think that experience, feel, method of fishing and other factors play a much larger role than color in a lot of cases. Sometimes color makes all the difference but in normal situations a person who knows what they are doing can catch fish on bare hooks before someone using the "best" expensive lures and has no clue will catch anything.

Of course if you have the wrong color type for the situtation you are fishing in no amount of experience will compensate for it.

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I am in agreement. Although my buddy used mostly white, he was very particular on his depth. He gave me a lesson on getting the exact depth by marking the line at 20 ft and then adjusting instead of guessing. 2 feet off and your out of luck yesterday. But I tied several white/red last night for today..Ray

Have had good trips using white in the past. A friend and I caught a bunch using pink head/white body and tail dragged real slow across an almost featureless bottom. Glad he didn't listen to me. I use a lot of silver or gray lately, but lookin back I've had several days where white did very well. Better with some flash or angel hair mixed in.