Lavender and pink maybe ?

Now mind you this , sometimes a bait strikes my fancy and sometimes it strikes the fish the same way.
had a Lavender and pink bait on lil red riding hood from last Friday.....
big fat body with a small light purple jighead , it rained ALL day Sunday here in Texas .....
We decided that we would be on a dock or not hit it at all ....
let me tell you this , the bite was BY FAR the softest I EVER encountered ....
I REALLY struggled to detect bites , a large number of the times it was a case of my line wandering VERY slowly away from me , or a VERY subtle pressure .
the first fish ketched me off guard , we had been there a few minutes and no "bites" is what we were telling each other ......:banghead
all the sudden I thought I had a slight resistance and set the hook hard ....
The rod bent down like I hung the bottom and the reel gave up a foot of line
and POOF it was gone ....told H that was for sure a bite and it was a big fish ....
of course he ha ha ha ha d me and I focused down REALLY tight to figure it out ....
the steady dripping of rain on me and the highly active spiders were really distracting , spiders and cold rain drops on the back of your neck make the capture of VERY light biting crappie a REALY serious challenge you know ...:Rofl
to say we got rolling once we knew what was going on is an understatement , if or when I find them and figure them out , it is a problem for them in most cases that results in the losses of lots of lip tissue ....
yes we tried other colors that visit and some also did ok to good , I just liked the pink and the fish were dicey on straight up orange for some reason ?
best part was them post spawn crappie were running a bit better size than we typically see in that spot and we filled the ice chest up with a few and off we went on our rather wet feet to the house .....
and yes there is 3 kinds of rain....them there pouring down big flooding ones , them there steady medium soaking ones and that there light misting and small droplets soak you to the bone slowly kind ....this is fact :crazy:
AND KABOOM is the word too :Cowboy
p.s. the water was rising FAST , but not terribly muddy , our mud part came back when the torrents began a week or so ago , most of the run off is pretty clear now and the fish are totally loving it ....another fact ....just saying:cheers2

A couple of fine looking ones there, Ketchn. I’m with you on the spiders! Almost the same as the soft feel of a crawling tic!:puke
Bob

Some nice catches Ketchn. My girls love that lavender pink bait. Seen it the other day and commented on it.

Hnnn mighty fine! Seems Orange now has to share the stage…good job bro

Very nice

Very nice catches!

Colors catch fishermen's eyes then he has more confidence using that bait. Crappie will bite it if you will use it right no matter the color.:twocents

BGBS in Opening Night is a good color for me and it's pink. Pink & white tubes work well too.

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Originally Posted by BobC

A couple of fine looking ones there, Ketchn. I’m with you on the spiders! Almost the same as the soft feel of a crawling tic!:puke
Bob

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and it weren't no big spiders bro , there was some kinda spider hatch going on and they was EXACTLY tick size , first one made me cringe when I plucked it off my neck , actually did a double take , thunk it was a tick !
the rain was washing them off the roof area on the dock , VERY distracting for sure ..

what a crappie can see in some conditions and what it might prefer is always interesting to me , after the pink did it's damage, I tried a white pearl and they started biting again, when the rain quit for a minute we hit another spot and bright chart seemed to be the ticket down that way .....
can I "make" them bite about any color ,,,,sure ,,,,, but it's way easier to ketch them if you put something "they" want down there instead of what you want for sure ..... :highfive

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Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie

Hnnn mighty fine! Seems Orange now has to share the stage…good job bro

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orange fades out around late spring into early summer here as a go to color for me in many cases , it morphs into an orange chart mix and then about summer it becomes less likely to really light them up . I often go to whites with chart in them around late May into the summer months , of course it does not mean they won't bite it , it just means it is more difficult to get them to bite it ....