116 views and not one single response.I`ll go. Just like you SK I hear the same thing sometimes "color doesn`t matter" It reminds me of a trip to Lake Tawakoni`s Anchor Inn Marina one day when my fishing buddy "The Sarge" & I couldn`t get a crappie bite to save our lives with minnow or Jigs. We must have used just about every color and profile in our jig box at least I know I did but to no effect. Finally Sarge put on what I thought was the ugliest color jig in his box. It was a Red & mustard colored TUBE jig and instantly they started to bite. After all the BG ,Mr Crappie,Rocky Tops, Constant Pursuits etc this one color was the ticket! Lucky for me he had more than one. We didn`t limit out but I remember we came very close & we both left the marina very happy about the trip. I guess color doesn`t matter until it does.IMHO

I have played around with color of jig a lot, and just never noticed a difference. Saturday on Fork I was having a hard time getting them to bite, I tried all colors did not help. That is mainly when I change colors is when they are not biting. When they are biting, I change colors for fun of it, and they bite any color. You fish different than me SK, you drop your jig and let it sit. I'm always moving my jig, I'm too ADD lol.

There are several other factors that go along with catching crappie but if your on fish and go through the steps, color is definitely up near the top of the steps...... Being on top of fish is above color.....
You have to have fish to entice them to bite.....

if they have proven that fish are color blind,other than shades .what diff could it make?

116 views and not one single response.I`ll go. Just like you SK I hear the same thing sometimes "color doesn`t matter" It reminds me of a trip to Lake Tawakoni`s Anchor Inn Marina one day when my fishing buddy "The Sarge" & I couldn`t get a crappie bite to save our lives with minnow or Jigs. We must have used just about every color and profile in our jig box at least I know I did but to no effect. Finally Sarge put on what I thought was the ugliest color jig in his box. It was a Red & mustard colored TUBE jig and instantly they started to bite. After all the BG ,Mr Crappie,Rocky Tops, Constant Pursuits etc this one color was the ticket! Lucky for me he had more than one. We didn`t limit out but I remember we came very close & we both left the marina very happy about the trip. I guess color doesn`t matter until it does.IMHO

About those aggressive fish: After fishing with a partner for 15 yrs, We've noted on several occasions that agressive fish may be in the eyes of the person holding the rod.
Just one example: fishing a large blow down in 18 FOW. He's fishing a Rocky Top in white/chart tipped with minnow and I've got a platic jig body in chart on a pink head. I catch one and after 5 minutes another one. Fish are there. I switch to blue/chart and catch 8 fish on 8 drops while he catches NONE. So his conclusion would be those fish weren't aggressive. My conclusion was they were on fire.
We could have moved to find more aggressive fish, but I picked up another rod and game on.
Sometimes they will and sometimes they won't.

When they started biting, did you change colors again? I have been fishing before, they are not biting, I'm changing colors, then they start biting, then I think color does matter until I change color and they keep biting.

still hold my belief that color is one of the most important things in catching crappie..... Well not THE most important but really high on the list, 1st is definitely fishing where there's crappie.....
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i only have 3 color jigs in my box! if they dont bite them i go to another brush pile.after about 6 brush piles with no fish i go home.come back tomorrow! i used to have every color made in 8 boxes and many times catch nothing.i now only carry 3 proven colors and most of the time they will produce.