Looking at my options at Siebert website, and they've every color in the rainbow, and then some  

 

What works (color, wt), and what should I avoid? 

Black blue brown orange purple green 

Wait ,To make your own skirts ? Or to buy pre made jigs ?

You can’t go wrong with the strike King structure jig in green pumpkin 

4 minutes ago, Skunkmaster-k said:

Black blue brown orange purple green 

Wait ,To make your own skirts ? Or to buy pre made jigs ?

Pre-made. At Baskin-Robbins, yes, but not this. 

Get 3 basic skirt colors. Green pumpkin, black and a baitfish pattern. Use your soft plastic trailers to add extra color if that's the key. Yes, I'm a hypocrite. 

I use brown with some purple stands, and some brown with orange and red.

Green pumpkin with and without red flake would be my most used trailer. 

I fish 3/8 oz black & blue 75% of the time. I also fish a lot of stained water. 

 

Other times I'm fishing green pumpkin or natural craw colors. 

PB&J or black/blue. Covers the whole spectrum of water clarity for me. PB&J form clear to stained and black/blue from stained to muddy.  3/8 - 1/2 oz covers it all for me. 

Some form of green pumpkin or something with some brown and green pumpkin and black and blue are the only 2 I use anymore. Basically the same for whatever trailer I'm throwing on it

Mine is one I make that I call Grasshopper. It's dark brown, mixed with amber barbed wire, with chartreuse barbed wire and orange barbed wire accents. 

Black-n-Blue is hands down the #1 color in any water clarity.

 

Next is Green Pumpkin, many anglers have figured out green pumpkin/blue (Okeechobee Craw) is a deadly combination.

 

One highly overlooked color combination is Black Neon (black with red metal flake). 

 

If I'm trying to imitate bluegill I'm gonna switch from a jig to a Rage Bug type baits.

Black/Blue, green pumpkin/(insert a number of colors here) and white. 

5 hours ago, SC53 said:

Black/Blue, green pumpkin/(insert a number of colors here) and white. 

Ah ! I forgot about white. I use white for my swim jigs a lot. 

Shh, don't tell anyone.  Green Pumpkin is the deal...

They all work. We all have favorites...black and blue, green pumpkin, PBJ are really popular. I like greens and browns, sometimes with orange, chartreuse or purple highlights. 

 

But I don't think anybody who doesn't fish where you are can answer what the most productive color would be for you. Waterbodies are different, forage species are different. ..even the same species crayfish can be differently-colored in different waters. Baitfish, crayfish and other critters often change color somewhat based on their surroundings, and different waters have different substrates, vegetation, cover elements, water clarity and stain, and so on. If you want to get more specific than "dark" or "light", you probably have to experiment a bit.  

 

Get the package deal from Siebert -- it has the 5 most popular colors, and you can try them all out; then get more of the colors that work better for you.

My suggestion is use 4” or 5” GYCB Hula grub and plain black painted Hula grub jig in 1/2oz. 1 jig no skirt to think about as a new jig angler. 

Colors are regional and change.

I am not familiar with the Potomac River system therefore impossible to advise what works best. My choices are #221 & #331

Tom 

It's hard to beat black...my most productive is mostly black with just a few strands of blue. My black/blue with a lot of blue just haven't worked as well for me.

 

I've done well with the natural colors (green pumpkin) too.

 

But an old favorite of mine was a yellow marabou...and I just bought some more.

Gerald Swindle: "A brown one. I'll throw black if it's muddy. If they dont bite the brown, then ill go to the black, if they dont bite the black, then ill go back to throwin the brown." That seminar is awesome, by the way.

Some of my best sellers

Black Blue

Bama Craw

Okeechobee

PBJ

Green Pumpkin

Black Green Pumpkin

 

Baitfish colors

Bluegill

Pumpkinseed

Silver Shiner

Flash Shad

Sexy shad

Chartreuse sexy shad

If you're just starting out, I would suggest solid black, and solid greenpumpkin. Use trailers for accent colors. Use trailers in colors you know work with soft plastics in your area. As you build confidence and develop preferences you can start expanding on jig colors. 

Doing this really helped me starting out because it stopped me from constantly changing colors and kept me fishing more.

 

After years of throwing jigs, it is MY OPINION that the days a fish will hit a black blue jig but not a solid black are few and far between (trailers being the same). Same goes for solid greenpumpkin vs. greenpumpkin with color.

IMO, there are two ways to choosing jig/trailer colors. Go natural using a color that closely matches the bottom composition and add a splash of contrast, or black and blue. 

Black and blue hands down #1

 

#2 Peanut butter and jelly 

 

3# green pumpkin 

#4 white and chartreuse swim jigs 

 

#5What ever other color combinations I’ve cooked up in the garage 

On 4/19/2021 at 3:17 PM, Siebert Outdoors said:

Some of my best sellers

Black Blue

Bama Craw

Okeechobee

PBJ

Green Pumpkin

Black Green Pumpkin

 

Baitfish colors

Bluegill

Pumpkinseed

Silver Shiner

Flash Shad

Sexy shad

Chartreuse sexy shad

Grid Iron/Dredge/Extreme Arky Mata Jig/Extreme Brush Mata Jig/

In what applications do you use those jigs? Are they pitching jigs? I use swim jigs at times so I know what they are, and how they are supposed to be used, but I'm not too sure about those other jigs with fancy names. Can you swim them also? A little write up/description might help a novice like me. Thank you.

I use a wide array of colors: black and blue. When I want to change it up a bit I use blue and black.

I keep it simple. Black/blue and green pumpkin or brown

Green pumpkin and black / blue catch 99% of my jig bass.  The last 1% is caught on a black jig when the water is muddy.