Swim jig colors?

What are your top colors for swim jigs? I am looking to jump on the bandwagon this summer

..and Ralph was such a promising boy while growing up…

On the river 2 I would not be without
Bluegill and white/chartreuse

choose the same colors (for the same reasons) as you would for the rest of your baitfish-imitating baits. ex, if you like a perch-pattern shallow cranckbait for a certain time of year, try a perch-pattern swim jig on the same stuff, etc…

I classify colors two ways. One is by natural/not-natural and the other is by color light to bright.

I find as the season moves along that the colors that I catch fish on and that I sell move from dark in the early season to lighter later in the season. I believe that it reflects a switch from Bluegil/crawfish early to shad and young of the year baitfish later.

A second thing that I find is that there is a switch from more natural colors to brighter less natural colors as the water changes from clear to stained. This can happen over the course of a season or over the course of a day. Think about that the next time the bite slows with boat traffic. A switch from a natural color grub to something bright (I mean brite like orange, pink, chartruse, red or yellow)Might mean the difference between catching fish out of the school that you where on and having to go find anouther school of fish.

The other thing that I consider is the bright and bizarre factor. Sometimes really stupid bright baits are the death of MA BASS.

I typically have four swim jig rods ready whenever I am prefishing. One is always some mutant invader color that looks like it would burn a hole in the carpet. On is always dark and one is always lite. The fourth one is another dark in the spring, lite in the fall or natural color. Tournement day will have two in whatever color worked during practice. One with either the same color jig or trailer as the best practice color but with a slightly different color on part of the rig. (IE The same Blue jig but with a white trailer instead of Junebug.) Lastly I will always have a bright and bizare jig combo on because I hope to find crazed fish that will try and kill anything that they can see.

The last thing to keep in mind is that living ruber has different characteristics than Silicon. You should try both and form your own opinion n which best fits your needs. I fish both.

Last but not least I set my drag to slip. I don’t want to rip a big whole when they hit.

Rummour has it that I am doing a seminar at main Marine in Racine at the end of the month on swim jigs. I’ll make sure to post details.