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I've lived by the book of 3 color schemes. Blue, White, and Black...all with Chartreuse incorporated in somehow...occasionally pink. I use a lighter line, but I use the high-vis so I can see the line better. People don't realize how many hits they miss because they don't feel the "TUG".

I've also seen some of the top crappie guys using 14lb.+ test line on crappie and have ZERO trouble putting them in the boat. I seriously mean two guys standing side by side in a boat and one guy with heavy duty line and another guy with light line and the heavy was catching 4-1.

It's cray how people can go into brush/trees and illicit bites when others can't.

But to each his own.

Fle fly firecracker crappie 2" kicker... has been ripn lips for me on sunny days, cloudy days and at night! This jig is 50% clear w/ red and blue glitter. Good luck finding some in stores?! I bought them all

Slapping them in the head with jig works best for me rather then color or line size, put a bait in front of a hungry crappie and he will eat, just my thoughts

Always gotta luv this discussion when it comes up. I know people who said color doesn't matter but have changed their minds. Likewise, I know people who've said line size and braid or mono doesn't matter who have changed their minds.
My approach is simple: I don't know what matters on which day, so I try to give myself every advantage I can every day. I will have more than one rod out and different colors tied on. If what I think should work ain't working, I won't hesitate to drop another color or two. If you don't experiment a little, how do you know they're not biting or you're using the wrong stuff?

I don't know if crappie can see color or not. But I do know there are various days when one color caught fish and another color didn't. And I've seen too many times in winter, fishing docks, when the person with braid or red cajun line couldn't get bit and people with clear 6 lb mono were catching fish in the same slip.

It don't matter til it do.

Kind of like using mennerz, if plastics, and hair jigs wont work...pull out the mennerz, maybe they will! I was extremely surprised to find out how many tourney fishermen ALWAYS take mennerz on the boat. Very interesting to me. I seldom use anything but jigs these days myself. If they don't bite my jigs, I just figure they wont bite mennerz enough to warrant messing with them. I do make exceptions, such as someone without a high level of confidence in their jigging ability, or for night fishing excursions. I have heard that mennerz will catch larger fish than plastics/jigs as an explanation, but after looking at those 3 inch baits that TBOX uses, I am not convinced they aren't more effective than Mennerz for large fish...I just take the money I used to spend on Mennerz and buy more tackle! anyway, seems there is good information on this thread!

Funny you should bring up the old Color Selecter. Found one in the top of my closet. They really seemed to help years ago. If nobody was looking and would think I was nuts, I was thinking about dusting it of an trying it at the Marina.

It's usually the Indian and not the arrow .

I'm pretty ambidextrous so I'm almost always fishing two rods at once often with 2 or more jigs on each rod. So in a way almost every time I fish for crappie I'm running a color experiment. If I catch 3 in a row on one color than the other rod jig bodies will get replaced with a similar color or the same and then often both poles will start catching at the same rate. I will say that often particular shades or hues or even multiple colors don't really mater. I.E., one scenario is fishing in orange clay stained water. Here they may be biting on bright red they will often bite on bright orange or even dull orange or maybe dark yellow. White may or may not work but worth trying. Purple is worth trying too. But they may ignore clear chartreuse or chartreuse black or blue or green completely. If I am catching on a multicolored jig I'll often switch to a solid color in each of the colors to figure out which color they really want and then my catch rate will go up. Glitter seems to almost never hurt for what it's worth.

I make my own baits sometimes and working with scrap plastic I'll sometimes come of with colors too ugly to be sold at any store but sometimes these colors catch fish best. Scab purple, pink slime, burned white, are some of my pet names for these colors.

Well I can't disagree with that. That's why I was asking for advice!

Jig size and color along with line size and color never seem to matter........until the guy next to you is wearing you out! It seems to make all the difference in the world then!

Agreed! How you present the bait is more important than color in my experience.
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The great Al Lindner told me once, "location+presentaion=success. Now color does matter under certain circumstances. I see it on about 20% of my trips where one color will out fish another. Today in clearer water and light winds white/chart got hammered and black/chart got pecked.