Does everyone ever use this?? JT Bagwell swears by the siebert bloody shad swim jig.. I love the looks of it, but were I fish there isn't shad... Suckers, Bluegill, and crappies are the most common forage....

 

i'm just looking for a good color swim jig to build confidence in!

That's a great swimjig color.  I normally use a black or green pumpkin with some chartreuse if the water is real dark but shad patterns are great for most scenarios.

If it looks like a prey item to them they're going to still hammer it... somewhat similarly a lot of guys catch huge bass in Clear Lake on rainbow trout swimbaits even though no trout reside in the lake. 

How many neon pink and chartreuse forage do you see swimming around? None I bet...yet they catch fish. I prefer the natural patterns myself, but in certain conditions ill throw around the bright colors.

Worry more about where you're fishing, is actually holding fish vs the color of your bait and whether its the "right" color. I throw sexy shad colors in water that has never held a real shad and it gets annihilated.

i'm just looking for a good color swim jig to build confidence in!

Siebert 3/8 oz bluegill color swim jig with a Rage Twin Menace in blue sapphire. Have fun.

Shad don't change color just because the water is dirty.

I use shad color baits all the time. Not a shad within 500 miles of me.  

Shad colored baits still work around here despite there being no shad population. Don't be afraid to throw them. As far as good colors in a swim jig go, I've done well on black/blue/purple, pb&j, white. It won't take all that long to build confidence in them. Just buy a few of them since northers are just as much attracted to them as a spinnerbait and that usually doesn't end well haha. 

A different colored crankbait or swimjig is a whole lot closer to matching a baitfish than a trick worm on a shakey head is to matching anything that exists, but a trick worm on a shakey head will knock their socks off when they want it. The bass don't seem to mind when we use baits that just look like food, even if they haven't seen one before.

I don't need to go to France to know croissants are food. 

 

You'll catch fish on it, you got this.

Small sunfish are silverish as well as LMB.

Most places also have minnows.

ive never seen anything in the wild that resembles a senko but it produces a lot for me. buy it!