Jig heads

[Stump bumper]

Just wanted to know everyone's opinion on the color of jig heads. I used to be stuck on green shaky heads no mater the color of worm, then black for jigs. Now I don't find it makes much difference though I passed on some chartreuse 1/32 jig heads a Cabelas that would have worked for Ned rigs. So do you have a color that works or a color that you just stay away from? Is your Ned rig color the same as your A-rig color? 

[fishinwrench]

Bass jigs are either GP or Blk.

Swimming grub heads match body color.

Unpainted heads work on anything.  

[Dan the fisherman]

Agree ☝?

[Mitch f]

Agree with Wrench. If you want a jig to come close to disappearing then try to match the bottom color, which is most of the time some shade of green pumpkin. I usually think green pumpkin is not dark enough for me so I add black powder paint to my green pumpkin about 50-50, then I don't have to think about which color.

[nomolites]

Agree, although I have seen days when a PBJ Ned with a chartreuse head will flat catch fish when nothing else will.  Also have some hot pink on hand when fishing walleye haunts.

Mike

[Dutch]

I use what ever color I feel does well with the bait either complementing or contrasting.  Sometimes I may have as many as 4 colors on one head.  Most of the time I don't think it matters at all.  Like wrench mentioned no color works on anything.

[kjackson]

I used to do a lot of walleye and smallmouth fishing back in the Northwest, and much of that was with jigs and some form of soft plastic.

My guide friend and I felt that --usually-- the unpainted head had no effect on fish response, that it was the color of the body that was important. Of course, we were fishing in very clear water with visibility up to 20 feet at times. While unpainted heads work all the time--there are times when a chartreuse head with a black body was deadly on bass.  Also, a pink head and white body is another great combo for both bass and walleyes.  

I got the chartreuse head and black body combo from the late Connie Peterson, the owner of Gopher Tackle, originator (I think) of the small mushroom head. He said that the guys in Minnesota were using the chartreuse Gopher head in 1/16-ounce with a seven-inch black worm to fish the vertical edges of weedbeds for bass.