43 minutes ago, Joedodge said:

Both why not! 

For what it is worth, I think it does make a difference.  To the extent visual cues are relied upon by bass, a color pattern bouncing on the bottom will be interpreted differently than the same color swimming higher in the water column.  Look at the pic of Aaron’s Magic.  On the bottom, it would probably be interpreted as a craw.  Higher in the water on a swim jig, a blue gill.  The implications, I guess, are open to interpretation.

I have 5 favorite  hair jig tri- color used over a 50 year time period ( time on the water).

1. Anytime Anywhere*; black back, purple, reddish brown.

2. Spring Craw**; dark brown back, Olive green, light brown.

3. Shad; dark green back, white/chartreuse, white. 
4. Fretiz; Brown back, red, chartreuse. (Smallmouth).

5. Black, blue, black, for night bass fishing.

* caught 4 of my 5 PB’s between 17.4 lbs to 19.3 lbs. using pork rind trailer on #1 of the 5 jig colors.

** caught a on #2 ; 17.6 lb bass w/ barn red pork trailer.

Tom

 

29 minutes ago, OldManLure said:

For what it is worth, I think it does make a difference.  To the extent visual cues are relied upon by bass, a color pattern bouncing on the bottom will be interpreted differently than the same color swimming higher in the water column.  Look at the pic of Aaron’s Magic.  On the bottom, it would probably be interpreted as a craw.  Higher in the water on a swim jig, a blue gill.  The implications, I guess, are open to interpretation.

I totally get it. But I will say black,black/blue, green pumpkin or brown/orange get bit on the bottom or swam. We don’t have shad in the lakes and ponds in my area. It’s bream and blue gill. All Those colors do great on the bottom or swam. Whether ya are coaxing them on the bottom or swimming for a reaction strike. I take an orange and a chartreuse spike it marker to a green pumpkin. Bam ya got blue gill lol. It’s all in the action. 

3 minutes ago, WRB-2.0 said:

I have 5 favorite  hair jig tri- color used over a 50 year time period ( time on the water).

1. Anytim Anywhere*; black back, purple, reddish brown.

2. Spring Craw**; dark brown back, Olive green, light brown.

3. Shad; dark green back, white/chartreuse, white. 
4. Fretiz; Brown back, red, chartreuse. (Smallmouth).

5. Black, blue, black, fir night bass fishing.

* caught 4 of my 5 PB’s between 17.4 lbs to 19.3 lbs. using pork rind trailer of 1 of the 3 jig colors.

** caught a 17.6 lb bass w/ barn red pork trailer.

Tom

 

Man I’d love to sit around and talk to you about jigs and lures. 

7 minutes ago, Joedodge said:

…I take an orange and a chartreuse spike it marker to a green pumpkin. Bam ya got blue gill lol. It’s all in the action. 

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Flipping jigs in solid black, GP or a color I call undecided (22 strands black,  22 strands GP, and 11 strands of dark brown).

 

Finesse jigs  - GP, Brown. Watermelon red flake.

 

Swim jigs- shad ( whites and gray) and bluegill 

 

Football- solid black,  and a starflash skirt from Barlows called crayfish or something like that. 

 

Hair jigs- solid black bear hair sometimes with different colored bucktail for accents. 

 

Allen 

So am I the only guy out there that swims black or brown and orange and green pumpkin lol?  

Green pumpkin - purple (my favorite for weedy clear water) 

PBJ (Dark Pumpkin - Purple; favorite for darker, less-weedy water)

Watermelon - brown - chartreuse (kind of a variation on "summer craw"; I like it in murkier, algae-stained water)

Amber/Pumpkin - brown - orange (favorite for clear rocky rivers)

 

This gets bit like crazy here swam. Or a green pumpkins with a shad colored 3 inch crush city mayor. 

12 minutes ago, Munkin said:

Flipping jigs in solid black, GP or a color I call undecided (22 strands black,  22 strands GP, and 11 strands of dark brown).

 

Finesse jigs  - GP, Brown. Watermelon red flake.

 

Swim jigs- shad ( whites and gray) and bluegill 

 

Football- solid black,  and a starflash skirt from Barlows called crayfish or something like that. 

 

Hair jigs- solid black bear hair sometimes with different colored bucktail for accents. 

 

Allen 

I’m not sure about strand count, but I’ve tied something nearly identical.  And it works.  

Brown/orange - black/blue - green pumpkin works here.

1 minute ago, Bird said:

Brown/orange - black/blue - green pumpkin works here.

Same man. Same. Whether I’m hopping or dragging or swimming it those colors get bit 

40 minutes ago, Joedodge said:

I totally get it. But I will say black,black/blue, green pumpkin or brown/orange get bit on the bottom or swam. We don’t have shad in the lakes and ponds in my area. It’s bream and blue gill. All Those colors do great on the bottom or swam. Whether ya are coaxing them on the bottom or swimming for a reaction strike. I take an orange and a chartreuse spike it marker to a green pumpkin. Bam ya got blue gill lol. It’s all in the action. 

Man I’d love to sit around and talk to you about jigs and lures. 

My #1 color was made up because I was using Black, Purple and brown ( barn red) pork rind trailers and decided to make 1 jig with each color in lieu of retrying a different hair jig. The color combination doesn’t replicate anything in nature but the bass are it!
Sometimes we get over thinking what a bass see’s we simply don’t know!

The late Doug “Skinny” Harris made my hair jigs for several years and he was an artist. Doug came up with Fretiz based on David Fretiz favorite crank bait color. The Shad color was Doug’s attempt to make a trout color, it works during the Shad Spawn. Sometimes we just dumb into colors thinking we are clever. 
My belief after decades of catching big bass on jigs is color contrast and movements are important to bass!

Tom

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4 minutes ago, WRB-2.0 said:

My #1 color was made up because I was using Black, Purple and brown ( barn red) pork rind trailers and decided to make 1 jig with each color in lieu of retrying a different hair jig. The color combination doesn’t replicate anything in nature but the bass are it!
Sometimes we get over thinking what a bass see’s we simply don’t know!

The late Doug “Skinny” Harris made my hair jigs for several years and he was an artist. Doug came up with Fretiz based on David Fretiz favorite crank bait color. The Shad color was Doug’s attempt to make a trout color, it works during the Shad Spawn. Sometimes we just dumb into colors thinking we are clever. 
My belief after decades of catching big bass on jigs is color contrast and movements are important to bass!

Tom

PM your email and will Fisherman articles I wrote on jigs and targeting big bass.

 
 

Sent sir!!! Thank you 

Black and blue. If I want to mix it up, blue and black. The water here is rarely very clear. I stopped buying other colors because I didn't use them.

Black over blue

Brown over purple

GP over Watermelon over blue

My favorite in clear water is my color I call grasshopper.

I keep it simple in dirty water with a black and blue.

 

Our water is generally clear to clearer.  In the odd occasion that we had 'dirty' water (which means 1-2' visibility to me) I'll throw black and blue.  Or if it is dark/really low light I'll throw black and blue in clean water.

 

For most all other occasions, I'm grabbing something green pumpkin/bluegill like whether it is a pitching jig or a swimming jig.  It might be straight GP or some accented GP depending if I am in a bluegill heavy lake or a pumpkinseed heavy lake.  I might throw a black and blue trailer on a GP jig.  Or I might tip a GP trailer with a chartreuse marker.

 

I'll throw a white/silver/smoke swim jig on a couple lakes around here that have shad, but that's the exception and not the norm.

22 hours ago, Joedodge said:

Both why not! 

Ok! Swim jigs: sexy shad (shad with a little chartreuse), white/shad and bluegill are my 3 favorites.

 

Bottom contact: green pumpkin, green pumpkin with black and blue, bama craw (green pumpkin with orange) and of course black and blue.

7 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

My favorite in clear water is my color I call grasshopper.

I keep it simple in dirty water with a black and blue.

 

Is the top one a Siebert outdoors jig? I like that grass hopper color. Do you have more pictures of it?

My all time favorite jig color was one that I have no clue the name of. I don’t even remember where they came from, but I can remember precisely what they looked like: 3/8 oz Arkie type head painted a light gray, light gray skirt with some lime green and orange strands mixed in. 
 

These things worked really good, and I just lost the last one in the rocks a couple of months ago. 

21 hours ago, WRB-2.0 said:

My #1 color was made up because I was using Black, Purple and brown ( barn red) pork rind trailers and decided to make 1 jig with each color in lieu of retrying a different hair jig. The color combination doesn’t replicate anything in nature but the bass are it!
Sometimes we get over thinking what a bass see’s we simply don’t know!

The late Doug “Skinny” Harris made my hair jigs for several years and he was an artist. Doug came up with Fretiz based on David Fretiz favorite crank bait color. The Shad color was Doug’s attempt to make a trout color, it works during the Shad Spawn. Sometimes we just dumb into colors thinking we are clever. 
My belief after decades of catching big bass on jigs is color contrast and movements are important to bass!

Tom

PM your email and will Fisherman articles I wrote on jigs and targeting big bass.

 
 

That's how I came up with my "Undecided " color.  Just mixed the 3 best colors together and rolled with it.

 

Allen 

Clear or dirty....

 

 

Loving it! This is a great topic. It’s funny how alot of us use the same but a lot are so different but we still get results. 
 

I think I’m the only guy who ties on a 5/16 siebert sniper and swims it, hops it, drags it. As silly as it is they work amazing as a do everything jig for me in my waters. 

1 minute ago, whitwolf said:

Clear or dirty....

 

 

Bout all ya need!!! I love a plain black and some kinda brown. It’s unconventional but i swim them as swim jigs also those colors 

1 hour ago, ElGuapo928 said:

My all time favorite jig color was one that I have no clue the name of. I don’t even remember where they came from, but I can remember precisely what they looked like: 3/8 oz Arkie type head painted a light gray, light gray skirt with some lime green and orange strands mixed in. 
 

These things worked really good, and I just lost the last one in the rocks a couple of months ago. 

I bet Seibert Outdoors (site sponsor) could make them up for you......... 

1 hour ago, woolleyfooley said:

 

Is the top one a Siebert outdoors jig? I like that grass hopper color. Do you have more pictures of it?

No, it’s one of my homemade ones. Almost all jigs I fish are homemade. 

 

Without a model to copy it’s a guess bye golly issue.

Being from Arizona the color you described could be Mojave smoke with red flake jig popular back in the day.

Tom