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If you disregard the usual factors like water color and type of sky...
Would you choose a florescent/neon color or the duller everyday version of the same color for a jig body??? You can only take 1 of the choices.
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I mostly fish more natural colors. Usually a two yone. Lighter belly and darker back. That is what I have the most success with. Possibly because those are the colors I have the most confidence in.
Would be tough to decide just one but would be between gray ghost or white/chartreuse
Ya I get all that. Let me word it differently.
If you were choosing a yellow body. Would you opt for a brighter or duller yellow based on previous catches?
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For me it would depend on the water clarity
Bright yellow, fluorescent
I throw a lot of brighter colors, yellow and pearl white is one. I also throw lots of olive and pearl. And very few of us have water darker than I do. One lure doesn’t work here. There’s days they play the color game. If you look at my latest thread you’ll see the blue ice that I use probably 3 or 4 of to 1 of anything else. You also know me, never a short answer.
Bright yellow. As an aside, I wasn't real sure about blue ice until I used it. Really looks like a small minnow. Bright yellow has a shine to it that also looks "lively", imo.
tail brighter for me , the reverse never seems to do very well in my adventuresQuote:
Originally Posted by silverside
All of the above was good info for me, thanks
What Ketchn said got me thinking. Brighter tail works better for him, and me too in a lot of circumstances. However, I use some of Bobby garlands Itty Bitty slab slayers in iced tea with lemon, which is the opposite. Yellow body with a transparent iced tea colored tail that the shellcracker really like, sometimes. Point is, keep options in the box. The days when the yellow body works they don’t touch the darker bodies with light tails. All this is relevant to where I live but is also good food for thought.
All good advice, but don't forget the reflective-type glitter, tinsel, and/or silver or gold underspin for a touch of flash at times either.
I've certainly seen a whole lot of times when some subtle glitter or reflection is what triggers the bite too.
sparkles are often the difference , them there flash bodied jigs with that whatever it is sparkly stuff often kill fish like no tomorrow around here .