Three of the most popular soft plastic colors for bass are Green Pumpkin, Junebug, and Black/Blue. Anyone use these colors for crappie? Wondering why they wouldn't eat these colors.
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Three of the most popular soft plastic colors for bass are Green Pumpkin, Junebug, and Black/Blue. Anyone use these colors for crappie? Wondering why they wouldn't eat these colors.
Crappies are smarter than bass, but I think if you put any of those colors in front of a hungry fish, it will eat it. Bass, crappie, cat, gill, etc
I have never tried them. Just curious if any else has. Lots of views and no comments.
Both Black and Blue work for me. Joedog will tell you Blue with Chartreuse tail my be my favorite. :fish
I have used those colors of Charlie Brewer Sliders with good results. They have chartreuse tails.
95% of time I throw black/chart, electric chicken, red/chart, blue/silver, red green, blk/pink...but i like chart on the bait somewhere usually...works well on Truman
It really seems like color preference can change from lake to lake. Or is it that the fisherman's preference changes? Up here (Missouri), we love our chartreuse, but I was recently in Alabama, and all they could talk about was Monkey Milk (?)! Yes, that is a color....No, I don't know how they came up with that name, and NO, I don't want to find out how they came up with it!
what's a bass? :dono
Bass like to grub around on the bottom. Those are bottom colors. Crappie look up all the time. I do like dark jigs at night or in murky water.
Now there's a math equation for Joedog! :scratchhead:scratchhead:scratchheadQuote:
Originally Posted by HuskerCrappie
I would say that with the exception of pink/black every other crappie color that I am successful with includes chartreuse or white in the combo. Spent the first 50 yrs. of my life wasting time bass fishing and using all of the colors mentioned in your post. The baits containing the darker bass colors for the most part are fished on the bottom or near it, giving the bass a darker background view. The typical colors that most folks use for crappie contain some yellow or white or chartreuse. These lighter colors might work better because crappie usually do feed up as mentioned by ALLSTAR and these colors present better with the sky as the background instead of the lake bottom. As I sit in this chair typing, I have yet to get the" thump", but I am gonna GOOGLE "monkey milk".
I have had good luck on black chart and junebug chart both in slider and curly tail during those in between times like early pre spawn and cold front conditions. Often right underneath the boat in 20 fow. not that I was fishing there but at the end of the retrieve. the notes don't lie. write it down
the other 5% of the times its these colors hahaha....kinda.. :donoif i had to pick one on truman..probably black/chart
http://bobbygarlandcrappie.com/image...ollRColors.jpg
If the water is clear, using something with a white tail. If it's dingy, use something with a chartreuse tail. That's the extent of my color selection. My favorites orange/chart and blue/chart for dirty water and blue/white or pink/white for clear water.
We took 8 limits out of LOZ 2 weeks ago on Junebug and Chart
By God, there is a monkey milk!:scratchhead
you didn't know about monkey milk Vic? no wonder your fishing reports are always poor........Quote:
Originally Posted by vic n
:biggrin
Yeah, a buddy of mine here gave me a handful of monkey milk jigs to try out at Truman. He has been using them on the lakes he fishes in Illinois and swears by them. Oh well I am a sucker for a new jig color.
will give them a whirl starting Thursday while down for camp.
All this time I only needed the right color jig?????????? ARRRRRRRGHHHHH!!!!:bangheadQuote:
Originally Posted by stratosverian
Monkeys are mammals. Monkey Milk is the way little monkeys become big monkeys.