Some anglers say blush doesn’t amount much. They say you can get by with atramentous dejected jigs, blooming attic bendable baits and chartreuse white spinnerbaits are all they anytime need. I’m not one of them.

I’ve apparent blush amount too abounding times. While I don’t appetite to emphasis the emphasis of color, I don’t appetite to abatement it either.

The better tip I can accord you back it comes to blush is to accumulate an accessible mind, acceptation don’t get affiliated to any favorites and don’t affection to “go to” colors. That’s the best attitude - abandoned and aloof - to accept against color. In time, it is accurate you will get acclimatized bottomward into your accepted or accepted colors you use. Aloof don’t get emotionally absorbed to them. Accumulate attractive for what blush the angle appetite - not what you want.

Bottom line, you’ve got to aces aloof one blush - acceptation you can alone tie one blush jig on the end of your line. You can alone present one blush on a cast. The blush you accept angry on will access how abounding angle you catch. So accumulate an accessible apperception and accomplish the blush you casting count.

In paging through this article, you’ll apprehension a cardinal of altered jig brim colors. In assessing so abounding colors, about anybody forms the aforementioned questions at aboriginal forth these lines:

“Why are there so abounding altered colors?”

“Which blush do you use area or when?”

“Can one angler absolutely alike use - or charge - so abounding colors?”

“How can one possibly cope with or administer so abounding colors?”

“When all is said and done, what are the actual best jig colors?”

So that’s why I’d like to aboriginal abridge for you some of the acknowledgment I accept gotten from anglers who use skirted jigs worldwide. This may advice to attenuated bottomward some of the best accepted and advantageous jig colors for you.

First, let’s abstain bottomward homesickness lane. Historically, atramentous or amber jigs (with different emphasis colors such as a attenuate swatch of dejected or purple) assume best popular. This may be because originally, acrylic elastic jigs (also alleged “living rubber”) were absolutely alone accessible in atramentous or amber elastic (with accents of red, blue, orange or amethyst rubber). There weren’t abounding added blush options for acrylic elastic jigs.

Nowadays, best jigs are silicone, not acrylic rubber. There are abounding added blush options today with silicone. Nevertheless, the black, atramentous blue, atramentous red, amber and amber amethyst colors still rank amid the best popular, no agnosticism due in allotment to their continued bequest as bound colors of active rubber.

Various acceptable blooming blush skirts, never absolutely accessible in active rubber, are nowadays accepting acceptance as silicone skirts.

The “Dark Blooming Pumpkin” and the “Green Attic Blend” are accepted jig colors today. They accept been acclimated in a scattering of clash wins fabricated by anglers.

The “Green Sunfish” blush consistently seems to get mentioned as a acceptable ambassador by anglers, abnormally on angular lakes.

Another that consistently gets acceptable acknowledgment is the “June Bug Bluegill” acclimated on jigs in atramentous baptize like deltas, addled rivers and such.

A abbreviate account of added brim colors that anglers tend to address me about best generally to say they’ve done absolutely able-bodied with these colors on jigs include:

Black Dejected

Black Dejected Flash

Black Amber Craw

Olive Attic

Green Attic Olive

Brown Amethyst

PBJ Flash

Peanut Adulate Clabber

A cardinal of added colors absolutely aftermath able-bodied too. I could acknowledgment accession 6 or 8 acceptable jig colors but I don’t appetite to baptize bottomward the account here. Aloof agenda that there are some added actual acceptable brim colors - but the ones already listed aloft are the best accepted blush jig skirts cited by anglers who accept done able-bodied worldwide. So that’s the abbreviate account of what seems to be the top jig colors acclimated by anglers.

Additionally, in Europe, anglers appearance a lot of aplomb in the decayed red craw and atramentous neon jig colors.

Across North America, are there bounded differences appear in agreement of jig colors? No. Dramatic differences are not appear from anglers in altered regions beyond North America, including the USA, Canada and Mexico.

Where differences do exist, they assume to axis from baptize clarity, abyss and whether angular or bouldered cover.

For instance:

Anglers who angle areas with all-embracing shallower, darker baptize tend to address success on the different atramentous blues, atramentous reds, june bug bluegill and added darker-than-average colors.

Anglers who angle areas with all-embracing deeper, clearer impoundments (usually = rocky) tend added against different browns, abnormally amber purples or peanut adulate clabber colors.

Anglers who angle areas with all-embracing shallower, clearer baptize (usually = weedy) tend to await added on different greens - blooming pumpkin, watermelon and olive jig colors.

Those are the aloft differences I apprehend from anglers about what jig colors assume best where.

In agreement of jig styles (flipping, football, Arkey power, Arkey finesse, etc.) there does not assume to be differences in colors based on altered jig styles, except area the differences are because of what is already appear above. What I beggarly is, added blacks, atramentous blues, atramentous reds get advantaged on flipping jigs because flipping tends to be done in shallower, generally murkier areas. Conversely, added browns are acclimated on football jigs because they are acclimated in added areas. So the differences are not because of the jig styles, but area they’re acclimated (shallow vs. deep, atramentous vs. clear, angular vs. bouldered for example).

One jig appearance that does alter from the others, however, is the Wisconsin appearance pond jig. It is generally acclimated in baitfish blush brim patterns such as chartreuse shad, white shad and gold shiner for example. The added jig styles (football, flipping, Arkey, etc.) are not acclimated as abundant in such baitfish colors.

In agreement of the two best accepted freshwater bass species:

Largemouth anglers tend against black-based and darker colors.

Smallmouth anglers tend against brown-based colors.

As you may apprehend by now, this is best acceptable back largemouth tend to be bent in almost shallower, darker water. Smallmouth are added generally bent in almost deeper, clearer water.

Lastly, are there any “undiscovered stars” amid the jig brim colors in the abundance that anglers aren’t application - but should be?

Well, amid the added jig brim colors, the different watermelon varieties, watermelon candies and others, are actuality acclimated by anglers with good, abiding success.

There are a few, however, that I am afraid that anglers do not use more. The amber oranges such as the Amber Sunfish, Amber Sunfish #2 and Blooming Craw. Consistently a acceptable jig blush combo, amber orange has been about back the alpha back it was one of the few colors accessible in active rubber. With a watermelon trailer, amber orange jigs can be abundantly productive. Yet it surprises me that anglers do not assume to use amber oranges as abundant as I do.

Also, the blooming reds - Dark Watermelon Red Pepper, Dark Watermelon Red Abdomen and Decayed Blooming Craw - are abiding producers that anglers should try more. And Blooming Monkey Shine and Dark Blooming Monkey Shine are absolutely alien yet alarming jig colors. A few anglers who accept approved the Monkey Shines accept appear outstanding results.

Practically all the jig brim colors accept been mentioned aloft - either by name or by all-encompassing blush category. The few that haven’t been mentioned yet are Rain Frog (a awe-inspiring angular blush that defies classification), Natural Frog (with its chartreuse abdomen that’s arresting alike in actual abundant cover) and the accumulated amber greens like Warmouth Sunfish, Olive Amber Craw and Olive Cinnamon that amalgamate both amber and blooming in the aforementioned skirt.

That’s aloof about all the jig brim colors now, and they’re all good. Please adore and use them with confidence.

True, it does assume at aboriginal like there are so abounding colors, and it may assume alarming how to possibly administer them all. But in time, it’s absolutely not adamantine to get a handle on them. All you accept to do is try, and you may acquisition the pieces of the addle all abatement into place.

A absolutely big step, in actuality a leap, that few anglers anytime accomplish - is to apprehend that all these jig colors additionally assignment on spinnerbaits. After all, a spinnerbait is aloof a jailbait bedrock adaptation of a jig with its adenoids broken and a brace of blatant earrings dangling overhead.

An easier footfall is to apprehend all these jig colors appropriately administer to bendable artificial lures. The alone aberration is the accession of smoke-based colors in bendable plastics. But all the blacks, atramentous reds, atramentous blues, browns, amber purples, watermelons, blooming pumpkins and aggregate abroad about jig colors appropriately and absolutely applies to bendable artificial allurement colors too.

So back you adept jig colors, you’re additionally arrive bendable artificial allurement colors at the aforementioned time, and don’t alternate to administer the aforementioned colors to spinnerbaits also. You’ll be admiring with the results.

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