Any color is good — as long as it’s blue

Successful crappie fishing at Jordan Lake in March can hinge on having a jig in the color fish prefer that day.

Freddie Sinclair tries to match lure colors by water stain.

“The color of the jigs I use depends on the water color,” he said. “If it’s tea color, a little muddy, I like orange or darker colors like brown/chartreuse, black/chartreuse or blue/black, but every one of them needs some blue in it, even chartreuse.”

Other colors are not as effective, he said, because Jordan Lake’s water always has a little color as a result of the sediment brought in by the Haw River and New Hope Creek.

“Sometimes I use minnow on a jighead, especially when the big females move (shallow) to spawn,” he said. “I slow-troll them.”