What is your Go-To Jig, in any water, clear water, stained water, and muddy water?

What is your Go-To Jig (style and color) for clear water, stained water, and muddy water? And also overall, "for any water".

This is a contest. The winner will get some Crappie.com Swag. I'll post pics of the swag shortly, but you'll have a head start.

Please provide some details about your picks and include pictures too. Beginner crappie fishermen would like to know what's good and what's not, and why. Also let us know if you use this for jigging, longlining, spider rigging, tipped with minnow, soaked in Slabsauce, or whatever. This will become a home page article FYI. This will be part of an information sharing series here on Crappie.com.

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Hard to beat chartreuse and white for any water condition. I usually will start with this color and have great success with it. While many shapes work the Crappie Magnet is hard to beat. 1/16 chartreuse jig and Livescope fishing structure my preferred fishing style.

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Hard to beat chartreuse and white for any water condition. I usually will start with this color and have great success with it. While many shapes work the Crappie Magnet is hard to beat. 1/16 chartreuse jig and Livescope fishing structure my preferred fishing style.

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This with a Flo Orange head is our Puke Color Combo and with a Pink head we call Pink Puke. Both are the deadliest spring offerings we have. The Pink has pulled ahead in numbers caught the last few years but overall the Flo Orange head is the all-time winner. Standard Tidal River offerings here.

1/8 oz hand poured #2 lil nasty. Powder painted orange.
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White and chart is my go to color combo. I've always been big on Jokers, Slab Slayers, etc

Saw these the other day and going to fish them hard this year. Palmer's Custom Baits - Local shop has them and available online, they look awesome can't wait to try them. Think I'm gonna try the monkey milk and chart below.

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My go to methods for crappie fishing are dock shooting and cast/ retrieve single pole. Below are images of some of my go to colors/ setups. I like to use light weight jig heads for slow fall presentation when shooting docks 1/48oz, 1/64oz as small as 1/100oz with sizes 8 or 10 hooks. I like using both Zman and Bobby Garland artificial plastics. For cast and retrieve I mainly use an underspin namely roadrunners paired with zman guppy grubz or shad FryZ. Simply crappie is where I like to purchase my jigheads and of course I use slab sauce on pretty much everything. List of my go to colors: Electric Chicken, Monkey Milk, Mayfly, Blue Glimmer Sparkle, Coconut Ice, Lights Out, Space Guppy… etc just to name a few.

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Well, I can see some Z-Man's in my future, those look nice!

I've fought it for years and years. Bought thousands of jig bodies. But my pal Allen catches more then me no matter the water color or time of year. His tackle box is a ziploc bag with some unpainted 1/16 head and a 2" grub in pumpkin body/ chartruse tail. It works in cleaner water or very muddy brown. I can catch some beside him, but he will beat me down with it every time.

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my go to is whatever they bit the day I went .....but,
IF , I could only have a single bait year round , it would likely be white with glitter in it if you must know

Black/chart slab slanger by Strike King

For crappie I like my hand tied duck jigs. These are 1/20 pillheads on a #4 sickle hook in pink lemonade. This color works in clear or dirty water.Attachment 503879

White with chartreuse jig head.


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Mainly the Hot Pink Road Runner ... custom tied by Skiptomylu

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Don’t matter the color as long as it’s black/chart


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I use monkey chartruese minnow lure to jig. Water where I’m from is muddy never see true clear. I order them from Slabanatorjigs.

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CRAPPIE MAGNET DUDE SPECIAL WORKS!!!!! If you can't get a bite on this one, they just aint biting.
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Blue ice, but it is rare for me to fish dirty water, my choice would be different with lower visibility.

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1/32 ounce Roadrunner with a 2" Southern Pro Triple tail grub, Tennessee shad color. Used trolling out the back of the boat as well as cast and retrieve while single pole fishing.

I've probably caught the more on a Lunker City Fin-S-Fish or Fin-S-Shad in alewife pattern on a RoadRunner head, juiced with SlabSauce.

Jim

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I aint got any pictures , fish story for sure .....:Rofl
my go to is whatever they bit the day I went .....but,
IF , I could only have a single bait year round , it would likely be white with glitter in it if you must know

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I'm becoming fond of the yellow pearl silver fleck

For years in any color water, I used purple/chart 2'' umbrella tubes. When fishing deep or extremely muddy water 2.5'' little Hustler in orange/chart. I always rigged these tubes on insert lead heads . Sure made loading tubes easier if lead dipped in slab sauce . Not sure it helped but sure did not hurt the bite. But since livescope, I use only handtied jigs with white Walmart sacks nearly all the time . Presentation means more than color . Many studies show white is a combination of all colors . Years ago I was taught black or purple at night Bass fishing ,but white does great at night for Crappie too.:twocents I tied white jigs with red. black and white thread but could tell no difference. I used to two pole (drag jigs with one in each hand) or mostly verticle jig stake beds and brushpiles. These days it is livescoping and holding a jig on their nose or just above. I have found jigging your bait too much can actually spook Crappie.

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TBass89 and Nimrod are the winners. TBass89 and Nimrod please PM me your mailing address and also include your shirt size. Thank you all for your participation here, this was a cool contest with lots of good info. We'll do a similar one again shortly.