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Anyone ever tried a pink head/ black body/ brown tail jig? A kid caught a few pretty good crappie with one yesterday fishing on same dock as me... Seemed like the crappie he caught were bigger but he didn't get the number of small ones I caught... Lol. It just seemed like an odd color combo and I wondered if anyone had tied any up like that.
Maybe the kid was just a better fisherman than you? :yikes
Just kidding! LOL!
Some days you just never know what the fish want. That may be the only time that kid ever catches a thing on that color combo.
I tried some of my flies and caught a few on them... Another thing I wondered about was the pink head because not many of my jigheads are painted... I have plenty of powder paint but to lazy to paint them for use with plastics but I might need to paint some up
Just because the colors might not match or look good to a fisherman doesn't mean the fish won't eat them. One of my favorites is one of my worst sellers: orange/brown/fl yellow.
As to him out-fishing you, it could be his retrieve, jig weight, line weight, or even the color.
Fish are funny sometimes... He only caught a few but they were all bigger than the ones I was catching... I probably caught 35+ but none were over 8 inches... I was using 2lb line with a 1/32 oz jighead I feel sure his jighead was probably 1/8 oz but the water isn't over 10 ft under that dock... Maybe they liked the quick fall? I dunno just thought that was a odd color combo... I can see orange/brown/yellow being good tho
Never tried that one!!
I fish black with a pik tail, don't see why brown wouldn't work. Usually when I tie brown at the front the tail is either orange or yellow.
Never that one! However lots of guys want a pink head. Entire Hot Pink jig is good too!
Sounds like a color combo you may want to try. I would also try the heavy head, the bigger fish may have been feeding close to or on the bottom.
I have found at times the bigger ones are smarter than the smaller ones as they have had many more years to grow and learn what to eat. I think it is because they see the same bait presentation and giving them the new color combo drives the bigger ones crazy because maybe they have not seen it before and want to taste it. Just my opinion but it makes sense to me.
At times, we will switch to larger jigs just to blow past the schools of smaller fish, Have found a lot of times, the bigger fish lay below the school and take what drops thru the feeding frenzy.
Color matters and sometimes size matters. Couple years ago walleye fishing 1/4OZ White head with a silver/grey grub tail caught 10 12 1/2" - 13" crappie which where I fish are very nice crappie. My Buddy was using a smaller jig tail combo and caught plenty of shorts 7" - 8" but never anything keeper sized. We coulld not catch a walleye in that spot but the crappie were a blast plus they make for good eats. My buddy would not even try the bigger jig did try my larger tails but only caught shorts.
A while back I posted a bunch of color combos and the variety is endless and when you add some flash and eyes the color options are staggering. I try to use natural looking baits as much as possible but I have pink, chartreuse, every color under the rainbow many of which I have never seen in nature but they catch fish sometimes. So who knows. But I can easily go thru 40 - 50 combos in an afternoon and usually stumble upon the right combo at some point.
There are so many factors and it is really a matter of getting everything right and you will catch fish. I have a friend that fishes with Black, Red, White, Pink and Chartreuse. Probably catches more fish than I do but I do not spend 10 hours 5 - 6 days a week fishing. He uses 5 poles, 1 for each color and usually only has 2 lines in the water and almost always has a white jig on one of them.
Temperature, wind speed and direction, water color, barometric pressure, time of day, cloud cover, time since last rain fall, distance from boat, depth, all have an impact, just wish I knew how to figure it all out.
I tied that color combo works good as any. Mostly a confidence thing but is a pretty color combo!
you never know with color combinations will work.