I seem to have best luck on black and chartuese.
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I seem to have best luck on black and chartuese.
Black and chartreuse followed close by purple chartreuse. Think you can catch crappie just about anywhere at any time on one or the other.
What Cray said.....and orange/chartreuse is good too
If I had to chose, tube colors would be the same for any soft plastics I use:
pearl
chartreuse with black or silver flakes
chartreuse with a spot of Spike-It orange
pink
green pumpkin with black or silver flakes
brown pumpkin with black flakes
methylate (reddish orange)
Solid black - nope.
Blue body - Chartreuse skirt (silver metalflakes optional) .... I've literally caught hundreds of Crappie on this color combo, and in fact I'm still using it as my 1st choice when casting tube jigs.
I started with the BPS Sparkle Squirt hollow tube ... "Electric Blue / Chartreuse". When I went to solid body tubes I originally used CrappiePro, then they stopped making plastics and I went to using Crappie Thunder Tubes .... "Pearl Blue/Aqua Chartreuse".
My best color is the one they are biting! I'll usually start with purple/chartreuse, but I'm quick to make a call to the bullpen if it ain't working!
Blue and chart ....high visibility at various depths .....bright days pearl white with sparkles in the sun shine ....chart white nice shad imitation...orange chart just because it works well ....the list goes on
Black/chart seems to be my most consistently good color combo,blue/ chart, red/ chart,pink/chart seem to work pretty good as well.
I like the Mid South tube in the Pilsbury color, has filled many limits.
In my clear water they like blue or purple and white
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Never used tubes. What am I missing out on? When would you use tubes over the other plastics? I have only really use the baby shad style of plastics since I switch from minnows.
The "skirt" of a tube will "wiggle" when being pulled thru the water ... which gives off vibrations the fish can sense. That "wiggle" movement also resembles the tail fin of a swimming/fleeing fish. I don't know as they are any 'better' than the baby shad/stinger shad style plastic body, but they do work ... and could be a good addition to your plastics arsenal. My suggestion would be to use solid body tubes, rather than hollow body tubes, simply because the solid body tubes stay on the jig better (if it has a retainer barb) and they seem to last longer before being torn up beyond usability.Quote:
Originally Posted by gixxer420
I like using hollow tubes that I can inject with crappie nibbles. I just don’t have a problem catching a bunch of fish with the nibbles. Chartreuse is my go to color. The tubes injected with nibbles outfishes all the other plastics I use also. One other thing, my tubes are also salted.
Blue/chart. Purple/chart .
Black And Chartruese hard to beat.
Black And Chartruese.