What color jigs do you guys use in the florida waters (for crappie, bluegill, sunfish, other panfish) that seems to yield the best results?
I currently use a black/chart 1/32 for almost everything, but may try using a 1/64.
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What color jigs do you guys use in the florida waters (for crappie, bluegill, sunfish, other panfish) that seems to yield the best results?
I currently use a black/chart 1/32 for almost everything, but may try using a 1/64.
Ask 100 people and you'll get 100 answers. I like just about anything with a chartreuse tail, my favorite is dark purple w/chartreuse tail. Have done well with orange w/yellow tail, usually after sun gets high.
Sure you will get plenty of responses, I'm interested to hear everybody's opinion. Guess another source of debate would be curly vs. straight tail.
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For specks pretty much the standard colrs as everywhere else. But I also must have Southern Pro Hotgrub or Crappkee Stinger in Bad Blood. For Bream I really like Southern Pros tubes in Appleseed or Watermelon w red flake and Bobby Garland Itty Bitty Slab Slayers in Tadpole and Sweet tea/lemon on 1/32 or 1/64 jigheads.
I always use marabou, but have some plastic 1/32 curly I can try.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fish'n Fla
Can never go wrong with chartreuse, but this parrot color for specks has been lights-out for me....fish 1/16th & 1/8th jigs for specks, but them smaller sizes should be good for the other panfish, wouldn't say the smaller jigs will not work for specks, but do believe the bigger fish like the bigger baits.
sounds like red is used in most of your jigs?Quote:
Originally Posted by huntinslabs
I have had more success with straight tail, like crappie magnet, but I think most use curly tails.
I do tie some of my own with marabou and have done well with them, usually add some flash.
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What exactly is a parrot color?Quote:
Originally Posted by Speck Detector
I really like bad blood and white with firetail in the St Johns river system for specks.Quote:
Originally Posted by SwampFisher
If I am dippin bushes or pads straight tails,tubes or maribou get the nod. Longlining or pitchen at cover I use curly tails, tubes or sliders. Bream are pretty much tubes and them Itty Bitty Slab Slayers or panfish magnets.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fish'n Fla
Here ya go CG1...can buy 10/pk for under $2 at Academy, body 1/2 blue 1/2 chartruese w/ orange tail.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crappiegirl1
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Originally Posted by huntinslabs
do you have a picture by chance? do you use the same for bluegill and other panfish? I fish the St Johns and am considering going down to a 1/80 marabou for bluegill, sunfish and other panfish.
Bad blood is body color half white and half chartreuse with red curl tail or stinger tail. If you go to southern pro website and to hotgrubs you can see the color. Big bite baits has the color too. In fact I use a 3" big bite bait version for speckled trout and redfish
Southern pro bream bug.... Been using these for years.... The brown one is the best bait I've ever used for bream....
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What size jig head do you use with them?Quote:
Originally Posted by Speckanator
No jig head.....I use a long shank light wire cricket hook under a small weighted bobber ..... With light tackle it easy to cast and accurate. Without a weight the bug will fall slowly and that's usually when they'll slam it.... Nothing better than a Gill or a cracker almost pulling the rod out of your hands.Quote:
Originally Posted by SwampFisher
I GET lots of bluegill bites on marabou jigs but rarely catch them . catch more on a small twister tail jig but live bait works much better on bluegill .for crappie, jigs work good in fall,winter and spring but in summer I sometime have to go to minnows.
What size twister tail do you use? Do you ever use them with split shots?Quote:
Originally Posted by ichabod
do you ever use a crappie nibble with this?Quote:
Originally Posted by Speckanator
No.... Just plop that little bug out there.... Never been disappointed
Thanks. I will probably pick some up. What size is the hook you use? #4, #6?Quote:
Originally Posted by Speckanator
either one....I get em at walmart....I always get the long shank wire hooks (cricket)
Hi!
what size hook do you use? I can't find the color brown from southern pro, is it called something else? TY
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Originally Posted by Speckanator
Maybe this will help....try Cabela's
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Walmart....
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Be creative with bream..... They'll hit just about anything. Cheerios, hot dogs, gulp Maggots..... Just about anything you can get to stay on a hook.....:Rofl.
A jar of these boogers will last forever and at one of the best baits ever.... They're tough....
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Mid to late April the river should be producing some good catches and the current water levels and a hot summer they should bed up into September.... Good luck!
Micah
Thanks.....you da man!
One last question.......what color gulp maggots?
WhiteQuote:
Originally Posted by RUSS L
I see that Walmart also sells gulp alive. How does it differ from plain old gulp?
It's just as goodQuote:
Originally Posted by RUSS L
Alive is a dollar more............I think I'll stick to the original! (I'm cheap!) LOL
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