I have recently started tying jigs. I have Todd a couple, but I am having trouble with color combinations. I get my stuff from fishingskirts.com. Does anyone else, that buys their stuff from fishingskirts.com, know any good combinations? Please don't just say "black and blue". If you can, please say the actual color.

I've used a green pumkin color in the past on a football jig. This color seems to be successful here.

There are endless combinations with fishing skirts,what may be hot on one lake may be cold on another.Try to match the hatch if you can on a particular body of water.Green pumpkin is very popular on most bodies of water but adding a few strands of something different may be what the doctor ordered.It takes a little work but if you or a friend can catch a crawfish from your lake you can tie a jig from a good picture.A hot color for me right now is Pale-Ale barbed wire mixed with green pumpkin and the belly has a few strands of orange.Its my version of Alabama craw.

The best part is you can put together your own combos and then it is truly unique. One of my favorites is to take a tab of "molting craw" which is in the living image series and put it together with a tab of green pumpkin, that combination on a watermelon colored head looks alive at  the bottom of a lake.

I have at least 150 different colors of skirts from fishingskirts, Barlows, Janns, etc. and can tell you this. You worry more about the colors than the fish do? Anymore I use maybe 5 or 6 colors at most for jigs. Now there are days that a particular color will work better but the other 98% of the time simple colors work. I use solid black, green pumkin, brown, shad or a combination of them most of the time. Changing trailer colors is a lot easier than carring 200 different jig colors.

 

Allen

The fish here like the green pumkin for a jig. I picked it out to try first and it works. But I do wonder if my crankbait colors work will my crank colors work on jigs,  spinnerbaits skirts and plastics too? I figure once the hot colors are tested and proven on crankbaits then the other lures with the color combination should

work too.