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Thought I'd open the table for some opinions. Anyone care to share some different ideas with marabou regarding color combos for best time of year usage? I'm wanting to try some I haven't yet, example would be (Dirty Tomater color, greens, browns, and normal red) How's do these workout for those of you who tie much of these colors?
Clark
Now when this lake is stained the Hot Orange works very well and I use the black & Green body (Actually look green, but is Fl yellow). I would think what you are calling Dirty Tomater would be goo in place of a Hot Orange too. I have also done well with Flo. Flame. I use a good bit of a Red Head and body with Chart tail, but have not used much red tail. I would think green is or would be good, but there are so many shades of green. I do know around Hydrilla greens do well.Quote:
Originally Posted by waxnslabs
Skip
I'm thinking of a fair to light green maybe because most darker shades of chenille tend to look black in water, like purple.
Orange tinted waters throw coral or peach Bottomline best color's 103 pink #3 !
flat i agree with you
I think Skip has touched on a very underrated jig color. Think about safety vests and other things that need extreme visibility....blaze orange. I had used orange body with chart tails but never solid orange. Tried some solid...orange head, bright orange chenille, and orange tail that I tied a few years ago and they worked real well in both clear and muddier water.
Clark, I have all those off colors as I like to call them and have used them here but always find myself going back to the usuals(chart, fluorescents, pink, white and gray).
P.S. Dont use Fl yellow with a red tail on Darbonne unless you want a sore arm. The gills cant resist it!
I like orange during low light hours,in particular right before daylight. Make that orange/chartreuse. They go together for me.
been tying yellow charteruse head, black body, and flame red tail
red/green/yellow has been go combo in my KS murky stained water...think I will use some lighter shades of geen on some of the new ties....you guys put some great color ideas out here....always fun to see new things get em biting
strange to see how certain colors produce on the east coast but dont on the west. within the same species of fish
we use a culmination of green with a lighter green for tail we also use a combination of brown and red and yellow seems to work very well here but most of the time the green colors do the best. Of course that's on the West Coast and we are fishing the snake River I think it depends on where you're fishing to find the right color combinations they vary from water to water here in our state. The combination that has really worked good for me over the years has been a yellow body white marabou tail and a piece of red behind ahead of the jigs that has caught tons of fish for me. Of course my favorite colors are grays and browns we do use a combination of yellow and brown it works good gray and white also good also gray and green of course that sounds a little off but it works well. I think any combination that you find the fish to strike is what you are going to stick with in that body of water. We do know one thing from daylight to dark your color combinations will vary due to sunlight and of course water if it is dark or clear.