What colors does everyone like in the smaller swimbaits? 

 

Allen 

electric shad works for me.

Blue Gill Flash and Shad works good for where I fish.

- Electric Shad

- Rainbow Shad

- Crystal shad

Sexy Shad, Electric Blue, & Blue Gill.  I use other ones too, but I always have an on hand supply of those three. 

Pro blue red pearl

Ayu

I use alewife and perch.

                Ayu                           Perch           &         Gizzard Shad 

is just about all I need here for brown bass.

A-Jay

Sungill!

 

 

Not super picky myself, something shad, something in the baby bass/sunfish family, and something translucent, and something with some flash. One of these will work, there are plenty of options in each category and since I rarely fish the same place very much at this point, I find that versatility is more important than getting really dialed in on a specific color that works great on a given fishery.

Bluegill flash and alwewife for the really small ones. 

While I own many different brand of swimbaits, for keitechs I only carry 3 colors. Some of these have already been mentioned:

 

Ayu

Great for imitating sunfish as well as yellow perch

 

Gold Flash Minnow

I use this when I’m fishing in an area with gobies. I usually do this by dragging bottom slowly.

Pro Blue Red Pearl

This one is very popular as it’s a basic silvery baitfish pattern. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Arkansas Shiner Easy Shiner is really the only swimbait I throw. 

Sungill and Tennessee shad  are my two that I use probably 90% of the time. 

My buddy brought 3 packs of gizzard shad ones to fish a weekend with me. He had zero of them by Saturday evening, fish ate them all! I let him use some of my handpoured no names on Sunday haha

Thanks for all the replies. I figured I would ask here so I know what colors to paint the jigheads I am making. 

 

Allen 

Thanks for all the replies. I figured I would ask here so I know what colors to paint the jigheads I am making. 

 

Allen 

3 hours ago, Sphynx said:

Not super picky myself, something shad, something in the baby bass/sunfish family, and something translucent, and something with some flash. One of these will work, there are plenty of options in each category and since I rarely fish the same place very much at this point, I find that versatility is more important than getting really dialed in on a specific color that works great on a given fishery.

Pretty much sums it up for me