jig color for crappies

[Guest]

I am curious what each of your tried and true colors are for crappies. I usually stick with green or chartreuse. I guess I've always been somewhat successful with it and every time I switch to a blue or red etc... I dont do much better, sometimes worse.

Any of you experiment with pink, blue, red? Do you switch up the jig color depending if you're fishing waxies or minnows?

[LaVoi]

I have had good succes using pink teardrops. I have tried blue as well but the pinks have definately outcaught the blues

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[Guest]

When ever fishing crappies, it can always get better. Every once in a while I throw on something red with wax worms and they'll just attack it. Similar to bulls. It seems when they're really bitin lite, the red does the trick.

[Guest]

After fishing crappie four days in a row in 35' of turbid water, using identical equipment (including lure manufacturer) and jigs in glow colors red, green, & blue there appears to be a diffent preference.

The red squeezed out the green and the blue was a complete bust with no hits!

[Guest]

I agree with Bigguns3, red seems to work when nothing else does. I like to put two red eurolarvae on a red teardrop. I also have a lot of luck with glow jigs when fishing crappies at night. When the fish turn real negative, I like a plain aberdeen hook and a single waxie, seems to do the trick. I have experimented with small one-inch spoons and caught crappies when they were aggressive but not much otherwise.
Good Fishing, Matt.

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[Guest]

For some reason the glow gemineye jigs work really well at night too.

[Ely Lake Expert]

Wizkid,

Recently my best luck has been with teardrops with one side glow in the dark with a pink tip and the other side all silver. That seems to work after dark and for during the day, keep guessing and jigging.

Ely lake expert

[Guest]

I worked the crappie really hard this year in Colorado and the color preference may have either changed due to light conditions, like when the snow cleared off, or some other factor that I may be missing. Earlier in the season, I was catching the heck out of them with a smoke colored sparkle mini-tube jig. Then that went really dead and they turned on to a white ratsy in really small size, then a week or so later they started hitting purple. They stayed with purple until ice went off and at the tail end of our season, they wanted purple with about 1/3 of a small waxworm. About that time several guys with a black teardrop and a small piece of waxworm managed to get a few also.
So it all seemed to be related to time of season, available light, food source, and time of day.

[Guest]

Purple/white...
Black..
PCG

[Polar Bear]

Pink will outfish everything else in my box combined year in and year out for crappies.