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<blockquote data-quote="Spurhunter" data-source="post: 5682389" data-attributes="member: 5695"><p>Depends on what you're fishing for and how you're fishing IMO. </p><p></p><p>Livescoping crappie like we do color and jig profile is meaningless. If you present the bait correctly they will eat it. We pitch past the fish and as the bait pendulums back to the boat we keep it just above the fish. Apparently the movement of the bait triggers them. I've talked about one of my buddies that catches the limit every time he goes. He's been known to fish the same jig for 2 months until the hair starts falling out. I fished with him the other day and he was using white/chartreuse and I was using blue/silver. Didn't matter at all. That said, old habits are hard to break. I still find myself many days using a bright pattern like white/chartreuse or cajun cricket early until the sun gets up then changing to a more natural shad imitator. I know another guy that fishes old school with no electronics jigging trees at his home lake from March to May. He is absolutely incredible with two jig poles in his hand. He holds both poles in one hand and fishes very, very slow. He will have different colors on the poles. He says it doesn't matter what color he has on. It's all about presentation. </p><p></p><p>Bass on the other hand, color seems to be very important. For me, <em>most days,</em> finding the right color can be the difference in whacking them and really struggling. Like most of us, I've had many day where I was whacking them on one color and the other guy in the boat couldn't get bit, or vice versa.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spurhunter, post: 5682389, member: 5695"] Depends on what you're fishing for and how you're fishing IMO. Livescoping crappie like we do color and jig profile is meaningless. If you present the bait correctly they will eat it. We pitch past the fish and as the bait pendulums back to the boat we keep it just above the fish. Apparently the movement of the bait triggers them. I've talked about one of my buddies that catches the limit every time he goes. He's been known to fish the same jig for 2 months until the hair starts falling out. I fished with him the other day and he was using white/chartreuse and I was using blue/silver. Didn't matter at all. That said, old habits are hard to break. I still find myself many days using a bright pattern like white/chartreuse or cajun cricket early until the sun gets up then changing to a more natural shad imitator. I know another guy that fishes old school with no electronics jigging trees at his home lake from March to May. He is absolutely incredible with two jig poles in his hand. He holds both poles in one hand and fishes very, very slow. He will have different colors on the poles. He says it doesn't matter what color he has on. It's all about presentation. Bass on the other hand, color seems to be very important. For me, [I]most days,[/I] finding the right color can be the difference in whacking them and really struggling. Like most of us, I've had many day where I was whacking them on one color and the other guy in the boat couldn't get bit, or vice versa. [/QUOTE]
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