4 hours ago, WRB-2.0 said:

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

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

Tom 

That could very well be - I don’t have the foggiest memory where they came from, but they were in the jig box for at least 10 years. 

On 7/20/2025 at 8:40 PM, Joedodge said:

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

 

Every jig I pitch or cast, I swim back for part of the retrieve.

 

I tend to think bodies of water are so individual that the only way to find out if a jig pattern is effective is to experiment with it. Water environments are different from place to place based on clarity, stain, substrate, types of vegetation, rock, wood, and other kinds of cover, natural or manmade. Therefore, the color shades, hues and tints present in the water can vary immensely from one body of water to another. Baitfish and crayfish tend to take on the colors of their surroundings.  Thus the colors that best mimic a crayfish, bluegill, shad, or shiner could actually be quite different in one place compared to another. So you should never feel weird about trying something off the beaten path for your own waters. 

Black and blue is my favorite color followed by green pumpkin and red also know as High Rock Craw around here(Because it's known for it's success on High Rock)

Couple of my favorites as of late.

 

Bama Craw and River Craw

Black/blue

Green pumpkin or green pumpkin with a little orange in it

White or white with a little chartreuse in it

 

Gonna have to try red one of these days.

 

I know many love red in the spring, I'm just too busy to fish then. I can't wait to retire!!!!!!

40 minutes ago, Siebert Outdoors said:

Couple of my favorites as of late.

 

Bama Craw and River Craw

Oh I like those!

22 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

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

 

Cool. What colors do you use for the skirt? It’s hard to tell exactly what it is from pictures since some colors look so similar.

2 hours ago, woolleyfooley said:

Cool. What colors do you use for the skirt? It’s hard to tell exactly what it is from pictures since some colors look so similar.

It’s just watermelon Dalmatian, green pumpkin Dalmatian, orange, and chartreuse barbed wire.

I have two colors really.  green pumpkin and pb&j.  I think I have a black/blue somewhere, but I am zero for zero on that color.  

21 minutes ago, Darth-Baiter said:

I have two colors really.  green pumpkin and pb&j.  I think I have a black/blue somewhere, but I am zero for zero on that color.  

I like black blue. I’ve never done much with pb&j. I like green pumpkin a lot. I just ordered a bunch of tabs and gonna try making some skirts. 

Those listed are pretty much all I use. 

Stained water - #1 is back/blue/orange followed by black/blue/purple. 

Muddy water - black/chartreuse or black/yellow

 

I'll use brown or brown/orange when visibility is more than 12 inches.

 

 

22 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

It’s just watermelon Dalmatian, green pumpkin Dalmatian, orange, and chartreuse barbed wire.

Sweet! Thank you! Do you use the same number of strands of watermelon Dalmatian and green pumpkin Dalmatian? 

1 hour ago, woolleyfooley said:

Sweet! Thank you! Do you use the same number of strands of watermelon Dalmatian and green pumpkin Dalmatian? 

Yes it’s about a tab of each and then 3-4 strands of each of the orange and chartreuse.

21 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Yes it’s about a tab of each and then 3-4 strands of each of the orange and chartreuse.

Thanks! Appreciate you sharing that! I’m gonna have to see if Mike at Siebert Outdoors can rig some up for me. 🙂

1 hour ago, woolleyfooley said:

Thanks! Appreciate you sharing that! I’m gonna have to see if Mike at Siebert Outdoors can rig some up for me. 🙂

He did have that color in his lineup but I’m not sure he still has it. It’s not a hard one to replicate though and I have no doubt he can.

When Barlows came out with their silicone skirt tabs the world of possibilities opened up like a giant vacuum sucking my money up. Must have made every combination I thought of that might work. I made my own jig heads so it was easy to have dozens of combinations, it was nearly endless! 
A few actually worked good, especially the mixing natural and fine cut tabs.

I believe it was 018 black copper flake brown fine cut tab worked great until they stopped offering it…I took stock and got off the band wagon selling nearly everything to do with silicone tabs, hundreds of jigs!

You all have Siebert Outdoors take advantage of his skills and inventory!

Tom 

Green Pumpkin Purple Flake

Black/Blue

 

I use both interchangeably with a great deal of success.

9 minutes ago, DougHall_NY said:

Green Pumpkin Purple Flake

Black/Blue

 

I use both interchangeably with a great deal of success.

I like those as well. It’s funny it’s all presentation with a jig mostly. The colors are for us lol. And man some of them are gorgeous.