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I'm brand new to longlining and have a question:
Is painted jig heads more important to the fish or to the fishermen? I'm just wondering since there's so many colors of jig heads out there and I'm needing to buy a good many for replacements when I loose some. If colored jigs are your favs, do you stock up on alot of colors or just one or two in particular colors? What's your favorites?
What say you guys?!?;):)
I mix it up with unpainted, chartreuse, red, black, white, and orange. Probably more for me but there are days when it will make a difference. Jig color is probably more important. Get you some of the lightwire ones from Lightwirehooker and you won't loose as many either.
i used paint heads that match my bait does it help who knows i have goting as many on unpainted
I use a planen weedless jig that jusfshn pours for me. Dont have any problem catching fish and dont loose many jigs. The weed guard is the trick.
Unpainted with a red eye that i add myself with a toothpick. Tore some crappie up on Blackshear this weekend with em long-lining about .9mph at 16ft down. No meat, just grubs! I did use slab sauce that i got from Rad'z :D
This young lady is holding the largest fish we caught at 16 inchs / 2.4 lbs, all fish were caught on unpainted heads doing true long-lining. :cool:
I fish with both, but I can't say that one makes a difference over the other. When I asked a "Seasoned" crappie fisherman that one time, his response to me was " The color of the jighead is only as important to the fish as it is to the fisherman". And he has poured thousands of jig heads!!
I use painted cause i like my crappie to have a pretty bait!:D
plus i always heard presentation is key.
Nice fish mr. and mrs. faircloth. It was good to meet ya.
and thanks for coming out last night for the results at tobo.
Aint no right or wrong answer... It matters sometimes and dont others. Personally, I use some of both and have noticed them biting a jig on a certain color head more than an unpainted head many times so I carry both.
That's a big ole white jafacman. Congrats to the young lady.:) Keep 'em coming guys. There's still a few of you dedicated long liners that I'd love to hear from about this.;)
I sure hope it matters with all the time I spend painting heads.... It might not always matter but on the days that it does you better have the right color combinations....if it's a cost thing then buy the unpainted heads and paint the colors that you want.....It will more than pay for itself if you fish very much.....A 2 oz. jar will paint so many heads I couldn't even venture a guess on how many it takes....
My main colors are Red, Orange, Chart, Pink, and White in that order although I probably have 4 or 5 more colors in my box all the time....
I was going to add a comment but it was exactly like AUTigers.
I use to have every color in my bag but I have narrowed it down over the years and just use white, yellow & chartreuse. Sometimes I will use orange but not very often.
I use black jib heads on some days and black on other days and ALWAYS light wire.
To me it seems when they get shallow it does not matter, they are so aggressive. But early in the year and on days they are finicky the color of the head can make a difference. I have had many days where they were hitting one color head 7 to 1. I don't know if they can see it better or they think the colors are flavors (LOL).
color makes me feel better, I dont think it matters on some colors of bodies but red head chart. body is a hot color for a reason. I think the contrasting colors can make a difference.