Blue Jigs

[Brian]

experiments, ...I like it!

[Jiggy]

If you watch the show fishing the west the one they fish floats in they use a blue/white jig. Bradbury said he likes them when the sun is on the water. Definatley worth a try. Good luck
Jiggy

[Tee Jay]

My own personal experience is that winter run are into the blues .  I can't recall if I've ever taken one on an all blue jig, but blue/pink, blue/black, and blue/white have all made my float disappear.  I have fished blue/red in the summer but it hasn't produced like some of my more standard summer run color combos. 

[bluenote]

Have often tried em, just haven't sealed the deal yet    Blue/black was the winner.  Fished in the morning before the sun hit the water. 

What I like to do with any new "thing", leave everything else at home so you are forced to use it...

Give it a shot Andrew!!   

[Brian]

What I like to do with any new "thing", leave everything else at home so you are forced to use it..

thats exactley what I had to do to learn that spoon fishing thing, glad i did!

[Dragfreedrift]

Me too Brian!  That's how I got my spoon fishing dialed in.  Its the best way to learn.

I had never caught a steelie on a spinner either until about three years ago.  Then I forced myself to use them....now I can safely say "spinners catch steelhead really well!"

DFD

[Andrew]

Thanks for all the feedback, guys--definitely some good insight. I think I'm pretty confident by now that some blue on a jig isn't a bad thing. 

In thinking about what I'm really trying to get out of this though, in reference to my first post, I think I'm looking for something that could in theory replace pink... something that would work equally well under the same conditions, but be totally different from what the fish had seen with all the other anglers. Mark for example, likes the small jigs in direct sunlight in either black or blood red... totally different from each other, but both very effective. Pink or hot pink with white or black will always be my go to on unpressured fish, but I don't always have that luxury.

I don't know how much sense my reasoning makes, here, but I can't evaluate it objectively so you guys will have to tell me. I'm going crazy with this rain. We're going on 10 days with 1/4 inch or more... and very little fishing.   

I definitely hear what you're saying on leaving other stuff home if you want to learn/test a single presentation. My hand will reach for the "go to" reflexively, so I'd better make sure jig pocket is void of pink if I ever get this going. 

Andrew