Lets talk Gulp

[SaltLife1980]

So since my doctor wants me to relax and take it easy so i have been watching like every fluke fishing video they have on YouTube. Now i see in them where people are fishing 2 different colors on their Jig rig. I have always ran the same color on top hook and on the jig on the bottom. You see people fishing chart up top and white on bottom for example. Anyone fish like that? I have even gone as far as matching my jig color to my Gulp. Color makes the difference so just wondering if i should start to mix and match my Gulps this season?

[Gerry Zagorski]

Hmmm - never really gave it any thought Jeff, although on certain days some colors do outfish others. Might make sense to start out with 2 different colors and see what works.

One thing we have found, especially when fishing in the bay, tipping the gulp with a spearing will get you more strikes. They'res been days where it's the only way you'd get them to hit.. You feel a bite and once the spearing is gone you might as well not have anything on your hook. For whatever reason, this does not hold true out on the ocean in the sticky stuff.... Thinking maybe the water is murkier in the bay and the spearing provides some extra scent?? Who knows.

Feel better and hope you're back at it soon.

[Skolmann]

I almost never fish the same jig color with the same color GULP. I want a contrast in color, dark head (jig)/light body (GULP) or vice versa. One of my favorite color combos especially when fishing the deeper channels or ocean is a white bucktail with a pink or pink shine GULP as I feel it imitates a squid.

I will on occasion fish the same color GULP on both my teaser and bucktail especially when I’m fishing shallow and usually it’s chartreuse unless it’s been proven to me that another color is producing that day.

[PeteyHD]

I usually switch it up and use different color on top and bucktail. I also typically contrast on the jig but sometimes all white works best. Every day is different.

[bunker dunker]

alway switch it up till i find what they want and then i flood them with it.

[SaltLife1980]

I usually start with the same color on both hooks then keep switching until i get the color they want but i never really ran 2 different colors at once.