I'm thinking of making a baby bass skirt for a swim jig and was curious what color tabs to use? Also what's a good color trailer to compliment this? Not sure if this belongs here or in tackle making

I’d use watermelon and pearl tabs for sure. I like paddle tail swimbaits for swim jig trailers and I’d probably use an “Ayu” color. You can find that color in a lot of keitech style baits. The eco pro swing Shad has a “Shad ayu” which is very similar to keitechs and the plastic is also much more affordable. 

 So after I posted this I went downstairs and just made one up..it looks pretty bassy in my estimation. I used a few strands of black a tab of army green pumpkin black bars a half tab of a watermelon/root beer looking color half a tab of living image green glimmer shad and 4 strands of pearl white. Good call on the Ayu color that will look good on there for sure. I also use the swing shad and have good luck with them. I will either go with that or the yum pulse in the ayu color

Not a skirt, but the KVD Caffeine shad in baby bass is a killer on the Potomac.  Always have one on.

4 hours ago, DitchPanda said:

 So after I posted this I went downstairs and just made one up..it looks pretty bassy in my estimation. I used a few strands of black a tab of army green pumpkin black bars a half tab of a watermelon/root beer looking color half a tab of living image green glimmer shad and 4 strands of pearl white. Good call on the Ayu color that will look good on there for sure. I also use the swing shad and have good luck with them. I will either go with that or the yum pulse in the ayu color

I believe this post should have been accompanied by a pic. 

Barlows Tackle silicone skirt strips barb wire #466 green and solid #753 white.

Tom

Yes you are correct I should have posted a picture..I don't however currently have a device capable of taking a decent one.

12 hours ago, DitchPanda said:

I'm thinking of making a baby bass skirt for a swim jig and was curious what color tabs to use? Also what's a good color trailer to compliment this? Not sure if this belongs here or in tackle making

 

I make a baby bass pattern with the following:

 

1 tab whiskey barbwire, green flake

1 tab white

1/2 tab black

 

The trick is to get the white strands on bottom, whiskey/green on top, and black strands in the middle for the black stripe pattern on the lateral line. Here it is on a bladed jig with a "baby bass" Zoom fluke trailer:

 

 

That's closer to what I want..mine looks decent but that's better..May have to pick up some whiskey tabs