Quick question...

 

Do you prefer to match jig & trailer colors?

 

Orrr

 

Contrast jig vs trailer colors?

 

thx

Both.

I always match unless I run out of my ability to do so while on the water and then I mix. It doesn't seem to matter.

Always try to match or at least get close as I can.

Both.

I want the trailer to accent the main hue or color base.

I like to mix it up a bit. Black blue jig with green pumpkin trailer, or green pumpkin jig with junebug trailer. 
try to make my own Okeechobee color. 

For bottom contact jigs,

I usually throw 3 basic colors and the trailers match them.

GP, PB & J and Black & Blue.

I might mix is something with a little red / orange on occasion

and have been known to 'dip' the tips of a trailer's appendages 

in chartreuse Spike-It. 

A-Jay

Always match. 

My trailers usually have some sort of match with a contrast color in them.  Like if my jig is green pumpkin I'll put an Alabama craw or Junebug on the trailer.  Something with two colors in it.

I try to have some sort of color scheme. Any accent is by dipping in JJ's magic. 

I loved a black jig with a brown pork frog or vice versa . Those were good combos for big bass .

I almost always go with some degree of contrast first, sometimes subtler - sometimes stark, but I never use a literal match. 

I know it matters to me a lot more than it matters to the fish, but I go all matchy-matchy with my jig and trailer. I even have a list of combinations that match perfectly.

55 minutes ago, JohnFromLisbon said:

I know it matters to me a lot more than it matters to the fish, but I go all matchy-matchy with my jig and trailer. I even have a list of combinations that match perfectly.

Same here ?

1 hour ago, Team9nine said:

I almost always go with some degree of contrast first, sometimes subtler - sometimes stark, but I never use a literal match. 

 

That's me! ?

Always match your shoes and belt to your purse!

I like a little bit of contrast. If I’m fishing with a brown jig , I like a brown trailer with a purple underbelly. Wild and crazy I know. 

Back in the day matched the trailer to the skirt; black on black or, brown on brown or purple on purple until we discovered contrast also worked.

Since black, brown and purple were my favorite colors I started making hair jigs in the ‘70’s with those 3 colors adding a black or brown or purple trailer letting the bass decide which they liked at that time. Later added a few strands red crystal flash with success I called Anywhere Anytime, still my favorite jig. 

Vinyl skirts came out with 2 colors like blue and brown or black and purple, black or blue and chartreuse,  etc. Greens were not a popular jig skirt or trailer color until around the mid 90’s and green / purple combo became popular. Today greens are very popular.

I try to use contrast, it gives me confidence. 

Tom

Sometimes match sometimes not.  One of the best summer full moon combinations I have had is a red jig with a white trailer.

Mostly match but sometimes I just roll with a green pumpkin trailer no matter what color the jig is. 

 

Allen 

I always have contrast. All of my trailers are a shade or two different from the jig skirt.  The only one that is an exact match is black.

I'm color blind, so I dunno...

Black/Blue/Purple 

 

Brown/Green/Pumpkin/Purple (Chartreuse dye, sometimes)

 

White/Chartreuse/Ghosts

 

Generally Speaking.

 

 

Mosty match-ish. More or less.