The Latest Skirt Fashions

EZ Skirts

EZ Skirts. These came onto the market in late 2005, are still relatively hard to find, but growing in popularity. These same skirts are used on several popular name brand lures. The manufacturer only offers a limited number of prefdefined color patterns. So you'll see many of these same EZ Skirt colors repeated on various lure brands.

Construction. The EZ Skirt style has 70 silicone strands (each 2-1/2" long) that all billow backward. It has a light, airy, "full yet sparse" look. The strands are locked permanently in place by a small rubber center hub that creates a perfect "umbrella" profile. Because the strands are locked in place, the different colors (fixed in five strand increments) do not move out of place or get mixed into each other. So if a skirt has different back, side and belly colors, the colors are permanently locked in position.

EZ On. EZ Off. They are easy (hence the name "EZ Skirt") to get on or off a jig, spinnerbait or buzzbait. The skirts stay firmly in place. Striking fish really can't pull the skirts down easily (if at all) and the skirt strands are looked permanently and perfectly in position. So the appearance can't get wrecked. Strands layered in baitfish patterns can never get jumbled up or out of kilter.

Action. These have good action and lots of wiggle in the water. The skirt looks square cut in the back, but when in the water, the ends of the skirt tips pull together nicely into a point like the tapered tip of an artist's paintbrush. Because the "bloom" or bend where the strands come off the hub puffs out so much, it constantly flexes backward, making the strands wriggle actively. It's a very lively action skirt. There's a good amount of shimmy, squiggle and breathing pulse the skirt displays on the retrieve.

When paused, such as when a jig rests on bottom, the strands spring open like unfurling a picnic blanket, presenting the jig trailer in the middle.

Which is Better? People often ask which skirt style do I like better - the standard skirt or the EZ skirt? I like them both. I like the standard skirt for a bulkier flipping jig for example. I like the EZ Skirt for its sparse billowy appearance. It is ideal for clear water. There is a lot more see-through effect on the EZ Skirt which breaks it up more and blends more naturally into the background.

Ideal EZ Skirt Applications. A few of my favorite EZ Skirt applications are:

• The EZ Skirt goes nicely on a hidden head spinnerbait since fish get a great glimpse of the baitfish-shaped spinnerbait body hidden beneath the billowy skirt. This skirt lets fish more clearly view the attractive fish-shaped hidden weight belly.
• On a swimming jig or finesse jig in clear water with a soft plastic trailer, the sparseness of the EZ Skirt style really shows off the soft trailer body underneath, letting fish get a good peek-a-boo glimpse of the full trailer shape beneath the billowing skirt.
• I like buzzbaits dressed with an EZ Skirt. They present beautifully on buzzbaits and have an incredible wriggling action, plus the fact that bass can't easily pull them down. A buzzbait needs to be cast a little different than and more forceful than a spinnerbait or jig. standard skirts can pull off the lead collar even just from casting a buzzbait with the standard skirt band. A standard style skirt, once you catch a couple fish on it, just does not stay in place on a hard cast or when a fish grabs at a buzzbait but misses, a standard skirt often gets pulled down the hook. On the other hand, the EZ Skirts stay in place.

You may not have tried this EZ Skirt style yet, but you should. It's good.

Black EZ Skirt. Basic black is always in fashion, even with fish!

Black Blue Fusion EZ Skirt. This skirt is a fusion of black with reflective blue metallic foil print, black with blue glitter metal flake, and black with blue fire tip strands. Keep the landing net handy with this one. It's a favorite of big bass everywhere.

Black Red Fusion EZ Skirt. This skirt is a fusion of black with reflective red metallic foil print, black with red glitter metal flake, and black with fire red tips.

Black White EZ Skirt. A great color that's one half snow white. The other half has a swatch of smoke with silver sparkle and another swatch of darker smoke on the shoulders with a black back. This color doesn't have the spiff and sparkle of some other fancier skirts, but it is a top producer of fish, and isn't that what it's all about?

Bleeding White Shad EZ Skirt. Five blood red strands are laced in with swatches of white silver, clear silver and white silver hologram. Many anglers start fishing with the red strands positioned on the belly - or you can turn the skirt around and use the red swatch on top of the back. Bass slobber over it either way.

Blue Silver Hologram EZ Skirt. Two different silver hologram sections (fifteen strands apiece) down each side. That's a total of sixty hologram strands, one slightly more silver, the other slightly more clear, but both hologram. Topped off with a blue back section (ten strands) with reflective blue metal foil print.

The hologram finish refracts (separates) sunlight (or any ambient light) into the full spectrum of many individual colors. The colors being refracted constantly change and sparkle as the skirt moves through the water. The primary colors refracted are pale glimmers of purple, blue, green and chartreuse. The holographic colors reflect the present water and light conditions and also provide the illusion of excited baitfish that are "flushing" and emitting color signals.

Chameleon Craw EZ Skirt. This bait color is nicknamed "dirt" in parts of Texas. It's five strands of dark brown with red and fine gold flake, alternate with 5 strands light brown with green and fine gold flake. There are seventy strands in all, in 14 alternating sections.

Chartreuse White Gold EZ Skirt. Alternating swatches (five strands per swatch) radiate all the way around this skirt. Both the chartreuse and white are dusted with superfine metal flake. There are seven swatches of bright chartreuse with glistening gold dust alternated with seven swatches of bright white dusted with silver.

Chartreuse White Star EZ Skirt. When it comes to spinnerbaits and buzzbaits, it's tough to do better than a chartreuse white skirt, and the color pattern you see here is one of the very latest and best. The seventy strands are super thin cut and so super soft. Alternating swatches (five strands per swatch) radiate all the way around this skirt. There are seven swatches of bright chartreuse alternated with seven swatches of bright white. Both the chartreuse and white are impregnated with superfine silver metal flake. Is this the best chartreuse white skirt ever built? Until someone shows me one better, I say this here skirt's pretty close to perfect.

Dark Chartreuse White EZ Skirt. A traditional chartreuse white skirt, the most popular and productive spinnerbait and buzzbait skirt color ever, accentuated with a chartreuse black fish scale stripe to induce more aggressive and more focused strikes. This goes great especially in stained water, with the black/chartreuse stripe offering exceptional contrast against the white strands.

Fire Perch EZ Skirt. A classic color with hot lime green shoulders and black back both with reflective green foil print on them. Fluorescent chartreuse sides and a fluorescent orange belly. This is probably the closest any silicone skirt has come so far to looking like a crankbait paint job. It's a bold, strike-provoking pattern to use anywhere, but especially across the northern states and lower Canada, where this skirt mimics young-of-year yellow perch - a favorite snack of northern bass.

Gold Hologram EZ Skirt. Two different gold hologram patterns, one slightly more solid, the other slightly more clear, but both hologram alternate every quarter of this skirt in dark-light-dark-light hologram fourths to complete the full circle.

The hologram finish refracts (separates) sunlight (or any ambient light) into the full spectrum of many individual colors. The colors being refracted constantly change and sparkle as the skirt moves through the water. The primary colors refracted are pale glimmers of purple, blue, green and chartreuse. The holographic colors reflect the present water and light conditions and also provide the illusion of excited baitfish that are "flushing" and emitting color signals.

Green Brown Pumpkin EZ Skirt. Two of the best bass bait colors worldwide are green pumpkin and brown pumpkin. Many anglers may ponder the question, "Should I be using brown or green?" Well, ponder no more. With this skirt, you'll be using both green pumpkin AND brown pumpkin in the same bait at the same time. There are seventy strands in all, in four alternating quarters of green and brown pumpkin pepper. Try it with the green on top and bottom, or give the skirt a half-twist to try the brown on top and bottom. Either way, it works whenever bass prefer green OR brown, you've got it!

Green Pumpkin Pepper EZ Skirt. The number one soft plastic bait color in the world, and it is every bit as productive as a skirt color. Seven swatches (five strands per swatch) of slightly darker green pumpkin pepper alternate with seven swatches of slightly lighter green pumpkin pepper for a perfect coloration all the way around this skirt.

June Bug Black EZ Skirt. Seven bands of black (five strand per band) alternate with seven bands of june bug with emerald sparkle to complete this incredible skirt.

Silver Hologram EZ Skirt. Two different silver hologram patterns, one slightly more silver, the other slightly more clear, but both hologram alternate every quarter of this skirt in dark-light-dark-light hologram fourths to complete the full circle.

The hologram finish refracts (separates) sunlight (or any ambient light) into the full spectrum of many individual colors. The colors being refracted constantly change and sparkle as the skirt moves through the water. The primary colors refracted are pale glimmers of purple, blue, green and chartreuse. The holographic colors reflect the present water and light conditions and also provide the illusion of excited baitfish that are "flushing" and emitting color signals.

Smokey Shad EZ Skirt. This is one of the latest skirt colors. It's barely yet on the market. Kevin VanDam may have designed this color. That's what the manufacturer's marketing claims, and it is probably true. If he did not make it, KVD certainly uses the Smokey Shad color in top tournament competition as KVD has been seen on TV using it and commenting about it. Especially in clear water or when fish won't hit standard colors, when fish want a subtle skirt color, that's when KVD goes to the Smokey Shad - and so should you. The back is smoke pepper, giving way to smoke with blue hologram sides, a clear white with fine silver glitter on the lower side sections, and a swatch of blood spotted strands for the belly.

Watermelon Flash EZ Skirt. A broad swatch (twenty strands) of watermelon pepper, two side sections (twenty strands apiece) of greenish pumpkin with heavy green metal flake, all topped off with a swatch of pumpkin with bright green metal foil print. Turn the reflective green flash on top first. If need be, turn it 180 to put the green flash on bottom. This simple twist is so easy to do, and it can make a big difference in the number of solid strikes you get.

White Gold Hologram EZ Skirt. Sections of pearl white, creamy pearl gold, clear with gold and a broad swatch of gold hologram are locked perfectly in place on this skirt. Turn the pearl white color on top first. If that's not superb, do a 180 to turn the gold hologram on top. Either way, it works as good as gold.

White Silver EZ Skirt. This is your classic bright white skirt all aglisten with an elegant, thick frosting of fine silver sparkle all over.

Wrapped Skirts

Wrapped Skirts. These may look a lot like the old time rubber skirts, but they're not. These wrapped skirts are a brand new skirt type for 2007. It is a brand new style of silicone skirt that has all the good properties of living rubber - but it's made of a new generation of super-silicone material.

This new super-silicone is a soft and supple material that has a non-stop wriggling, swimming movement even on slow speed retrieves.

It has the lively action of living rubber but won't fade, it won't get old and brittle.

Three layers of super-silicone material are used. All three layers can be the same or different colors. All three layers or "wraps" are of this new and lower durometer (softer) super-silicone material.

• First, the innermost underlying core strands are wide, flat spears with pointed ends, just like the old time rubber
• Next, two consecutive but separate wraps of thin-cut strands are rolled or wrapped on top

The two slim outer layers and one wide inner layer are all of this new and different durometer softer super-silicone.

The super-silicone layers are wrapped around or onto a solid hard silicone center hub or core. So the skirts are easy to get on or off lures thanks to this sturdy inner center hub part.

Before the strands are sliced, the material is in sheet form. Both the thin-cut strands and wide-cut spears are made from the same sheets, in many colors, but none with glitter or flake. The super-silicone material is so thin that glitter flakes are too thick to put into the sheets.

The next two pictures show the skirts "inside out" so what you see on the "outside" here are the wider spearpoint strands. On a lure, these wider spearpoint strands would belong on the inside of the skirt.

Wrapped skirts are three inches long. When put on a lure like a spinnerbait, buzzbait or jig, these wrapped skirts are as long and as full as standard skirts.

Skirts go on lures so that the strands fold back or bend back over the hook. Water pushing against the bent-back strands are what causes the intense swimming motion.

To feel these skirts, they are lighter, more airy, more quiver, stretchier, softer, more rubbery than standard silicone skirts. They have a more active wriggling swimming motion than standard silicone skirts. Perfect for spinnerbaits, buzzbaits and jigs. Why not give them a try?

Black Wrapped Skirts

Black Red Wrapped Skirts

Chartreuse Wrapped Skirts

Chartreuse White Wrapped Skirts

Citrus Shad Wrapped Skirts

Green Pumpkin Wrapped Skirts

Green Pumpkin Black Wrapped Skirts

Pumpkin Chartreuse Wrapped Skirts

White Wrapped Skirts

Finesse Skirts

Finesse Skirts. These are half-size skirts with the short and fuzzy forward-facing stubble. These are made of the same silicone material and have the same number of strands - 44 to 50 strands - as standard skirts but are exactly half the length of standard skirts. The strands are locked in place with a thin clear application of silicone adhesive sandwiched in between an inner core collar and outer band collar. It's hard to see there's any glue, but it's there, which is especially important to lock and keep the short hair ends from slipping out. The strands can't hardly move or get pulled out of place. The outer band has ears to optionally accept plug-in rattles. Rattles not included.

Shown left to right: Brown Purple; Watermelon Candy Sunfish; Peanut Butter Jelly; Black Brown Craw; and Black Blue Flash.

Black Blue Flash Finesse Skirts

Black Brown Craw Finesse Skirts

Brown Purple Finesse Skirts

Peanut Butter Jelly Finesse Skirts

Watermelon Candy Sunfish Finesse Skirts

Thin Cut Skirts

Thin Cut Skirts. All dimensions - length, width, height - are proportionally less than standard skirts. It is made of the same silicone rubber as standard skirts but in terms of height (the thickness) of the material, it's made from a thinner or flatter sheet of rubber to begin with. Each stand is cut much thinner, and there are usually 60 thin cut strands per skirt. The length is shorter - only 4" compared to the 5-1/4" length of standard skirts.

Some anglers say the thinner strands have more action or movement. Whether that matters to fish, no one can prove. It's true these skirts are lighter and more airy than standard skirts. The main reason I use them at times is not because of any difference in action - but because of the dramatic difference in size.

When you need a spinnerbait, jig or buzz bait - just smaller - the overall smaller profile and miniature nature makes Thin Cut skirts ideal for downsizing situations.. And therein lies the major benefit of these Thin Cut skirts. All the proportions are balanced to be smaller. It's not a standard skirt clipped shorter - it's an overall smaller skirt in every proportion, and that makes it perfect for pressured fish, wary or cautious fish, clear water and for smaller waters like ponds, streams and tanks.

Sometimes you see spinnerbaits where the blades are made smaller, the wire arm is reduced size, and the head weight mass may be hidden beneath the skirt - all to give the illusion of a smaller spinnerbait. Little's been done to reduce the bulk of the skirt however, until now. The Thin Cut skirt truly let's you compact and condense down the key strike zone - the skirt - on spinnerbaits and buzzbaits.

Thin Cut skirts go great on finesse jigs too. They really show off the all-important jig trailer. On delicately-balanced swimming jigs, the perfect placement of each strand, plus the overall lighter, thinner skirt does not affect or influence the upright balance of a swimming jig as much as bulkier standard skirts that could make a swimming jig run lopsided.

Each strand is locked perfectly in place with a thin clear application of silicone adhesive sandwiched in between an inner core collar and outer band collar. It's hard to see there's any glue, but it's there, which is especially important to lock and keep the strands from getting pulled out of place. The inner collar is flanged on both ends to make the bloom-like flare you see where both sides of the strands flare off the collar.

Full size skirt (top). Thin cut skirt (bottom).

Chartreuse Shad Thin Cut Skirts

Full size skirt (top). Thin cut skirt (bottom).

Triple Chartreuse Thin Cut Skirts

Full size skirt (top). Thin cut skirt (bottom).

White Pearl Thin Cut Skirts

Full size skirt (top). Thin cut skirt (bottom).

Smallie Special Thin Cut Skirts

Standard Banded Skirts and Hole-In-One Skirts

Standard Banded Skirts. These are your tried and true type of silicone skirts with rubber band collars to hold the skirts together. The material is some of the best skirt material in the world. It is super soft for pulsating breathing skirt action.

Approximately 5-1/4" total length. All standard skirts have 44 to 50 backward- and forward-facing silicone rubber strands, making 88 to 100 individual loose ends. That's a lot of skirt.

The retainer band is put off-center to create one short side and one long side. Usually, the long side is put on facing forward, but you have a choice how you want to put it on, and it is fun to experiment.

The bands are put on with a small drop of transparent glue. It's hard to see the glue, but it's there, and it does help to hold the strands in place better. With repeated use, the strands will wriggle around slightly and may shift position under the band. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as it causes a well-blended color pattern which may often be desirable.

Hole-In-One Skirts. These Hole-In-One skirts are a lot like standard banded skirts. Both Hole-In-One and standard skirts are 5-1/4" inches long. They're usually banded off-center to make one shorter and one longer side. Both styles have from 44 to 50 strands. Both have a rubber band collar and a light application of transparent glue on the collar to help hold them together. Both styles are made with the same skirt material which is some of the best skirt material in the world. It is super soft for pulsating breathing skirt action.

The difference is:

• Standard Banded Skirt. On a standard skirt, with repeated use, the strands will wriggle around slightly and may shift position under the band. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as it causes a well-blended color pattern which may often be desirable. When you have a single color skirt, or two or three closely-matching colors, you may actually want them to commingle and blend together well.
   
• Hole-In-One Skirt. This is the ultimate skirt style for complex baitfish patterns since the strands can't wiggle out of place. The strands are sandwiched and glued between an inner core and the outer band. That permanently and perfectly locks every strand in their original positions. So when you want to represent a small baitfish or complex skirt color pattern that has distinct back, side and belly colors, the Hole-In-One skirt more realistically simulates and maintains a small baitfish color pattern. The strands stay perfectly in place and can not move out of place, even through lots of rugged use. The back, belly and side colors stay exactly where they should be. Also, the flanged inner core creates the flared effect you see where the strands come off the core.
   
• Otherwise, Hole-In-One skirts and standard banded skirts are the same (except for the inner core). These skirts are exactly as long, have the same strand count and are made with the same material. The only difference is the inner core that helps lock strands in their place.

An important aspect of both the standard and Hole-In-One styles is that the strands on these skirts behave in a well-mannered way. They do not wrap across the nose of a jig or spinnerbait as much. They do not tangle over the hook shank as much as some other skirt styles that have thicker or thinner strands. So comparatively less time needs to be taken to straighten out these standard or Hole-In-One skirt strands in between casts.

Alewife Hole-In-One Skirt. The alewife is a baitfish species in the shad family. Alewives occur naturally in Atlantic tidal rivers and have been stocked in many other bass waters. The alewife looks a lot like the blueback herring and where both occur in coastal rivers, distinguishing the difference between the two species is difficult. Alewives tends to be lighter green grayish/silver on top and are silvery white on bottom. The alewife is also called the sawbelly because of a ridge of sharp serrated scales on the edge of their bellies.

The dorsal or back of this alewife pattern is a green chartreuse with black scales. Both the sides of the alewife skirt are white with silver. The belly strands are also white silver but tipped with pale chartreuse to add a tinge of lower fin and tail accent coloration.

Autumn Green Hole-In-One Skirt. In late summer and early autumn, water color often tends to become greener and so do shad. Plus this time of year, baby bass begin to muster in huge schools of green-backed young-of-year bass. Shad start to muster also in early fall, and can be so green at this time that many anglers often mistake the green shad for baby bass. This autumn green skirt imitates baby bass, green-hued shad, emerald shiner and many other greenish baitfish in autumn - or any time of year. Pale green back is frosted with pale green reflective sparkles (hard to see in photo). A swatch of reflective silver strands go down the middle on both sides. The belly has reflective pale green and gold-flaked strands. Overall, a lot shinier in the water than in the photo.

This is no ordinary black blue skirt. This black blue beauty has the perfect blend of reflective blue foil to add a lifelike shimmering flash. Royal blue tips add the perfect contrasting kick of blue tip color.

Try Yamamoto's various black with blue (color #'s 021, 520, 523, 904) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt. There are some times I desire to throw black blue jigs in clear water (such as pre-spawn through post-spawn) and I tend to use Yamamoto's color #214 (smoke with black, blue and gold flake) as a black blue jig trailer color under clearer water conditions.

Black Blue Flash Skirt. Each strand is heavily foiled in a non-descript, irregular pattern on both sides with lustrous metallic blue foil flash. The blue foil is laminated in an irregular swirling pattern. The blue foil constantly glistens in a fluid manner as the skirt strands ripple whenever moved. The blue flash flutters in a shimmering illusion. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Great to use at night. It also excels at dawn, dusk, on dark mornings, overcast days or when the wind smurs the surface so much it reduces light penetration below, or when the wind creates a mudline - throw them the black blue flash!

Black Brown Craw Skirt. Friends and customers often ask, "What's the best jig skirt color?" This is it. It perfectly mottles and blends the two best jig colors in history - black and brown - frosted with a fine green shimmer. The result is a black brown jig skirt that excels with any or all of the most productive jig trailer colors - black, brown, green pumpkin, watermelon and junebug trailers all match perfectly. Don't forget chartreuse trailers for the smallies. They're all options trailed behind the mottled black brown craw skirt. It is one heck of a productive jig skirt. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Black Chartreuse Hole-In-One Skirt. Beginning in the early seventies and still to this day, black chartreuse (with orange belly) is the top-selling bass crankbait color of all time, says legendary crankbait designer Lee Sisson. Top anglers who have seen and done it all with crankbaits the past thirty years, they keep coming back to this basic black chartreuse color, says Lee.

Now this famous black chartreuse crankbait color is available in a skirt for spinnerbaits, buzzbaits and jigs. This skirt is patterned after the black chartreuse Bagley crankbait that Takahiro Omori used to win the 2004 Bassmaster Classic. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Same as a black chartreuse crankbait, this skirt will work day or night. Even on the darkest nights, when nothing else is effective, slip this skirt on a jig or spinnerbait with a bulky black trailer plus one (or two) nunchukus rattle straps slipped on the hook shank.

This color is very popular in Europe. More North American anglers should give it a try.

Black Neon Skirt. Black red skirts like this tend to be favored by anglers who fish delta, bayou, swampy or brackish estuaries/rivers along the Atlantic, Gulf or California coastline. European bass anglers also heavily use black red skirts. Otherwise, the average angler hardly uses black red skirts today - but it wasn't always so. As little as fifteen years ago, it was even money whether an angler would claim a black blue or a black red jig worked best. There were many anglers who favored one versus the other. Then somehow the black red jig all but disappeared. Who knows why? Black blue has become the most popular jig color worldwide. This is compounded by the irony that, in the late 1990s, jig flipping legend Denny Brauer rose to the top of the bass fishing world and dominated top pro tournaments by adding a black neon (black with red glitter) flipping tube to his flipping jig regimen. Still to this day, black neon is the number one flipping tube color. Yet a black neon flipping jig skirt has never become popular, and the black red jig skirts of old are long gone. If you think that flipping a black neon tube works swell, wait until you try this black neon skirt - for jigs, spinnerbaits and buzzbaits. You may rediscover why many old timers favored the black red skirt over black blue. Maybe you will too! Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Bleeding Pearl Blue Chartreuse Skirt. This skirt color appeals to all bass species, largemouth, spotted bass and smallmouth hit it hard! It's based on the clown color so effective as a hard plastic jerkbait color. The skirt is mainly strands of pearl blue with silver flake plus a swatch of chartreuse with silver flake and red tail tip. You can position the chartreuse red swatch on top or bottom to see if it makes a difference in how often or how solidly fish strike it. What fish could resist?

Blue Chartreuse Hole-In-One Skirt.  One of the most popular crankbait colors these days. Now available in an incredible skirt color.

Try Gary Yamamoto's chartreuse pepper (color #156) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt.

Brown Purple Skirt. Winning Western pros have thrown brown purple jig 'n pigs forever. Always have. Always will. Now here's a great nondescript, natural-looking skirt that Western jig wizards will love.

Half purplish brown on the back and half brownish purple on the belly. If you're not getting solid strikes that way, rotate the skirt so the purple's on the back, the brown on the belly, and see if that turns the trick.

Super drab. No flash, no fancy, no dinks, just kickers. It's a mighty handsome brown purple skirt. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

This dark, nondescript skirt can be dressed with any black, brown, purple or watermelon trailer, either pork or plastic. To narrow down a few favorite trailers for this skirt are: 1) brown pork under any conditions 2) a dark smoke pepper in clear to stained water or 3) a dark green pumpkin pepper under dark conditions soft plastic trailer.

Brown Sunfish Skirt. Most bass lures are designed to imitate shad, shiners, minnows and crayfish. What's often neglected is that sunfish are present everywhere bass are, and they are a staple food in bass diets. You read and hear a whole lot more about shad, shiners, minnows and crayfish, but don't let that fool you. Bass eat sunfish all the time everywhere. One serving suggestion is to use a watermelon pepper jig trailer to complete the sunfish illusion. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Brown Sunfish #2 Skirt. Half brown pumpkin with green metal flake. Half dark orange pumpkin with green metal flake. Wholly good! Sunfish are present everywhere bass are, and they are a staple food in bass diets. You read and hear a whole lot more about shad, shiners, minnows and such, but don't let that fool you. Bass eat sunfish all the time everywhere. Top this skirt off with a watermelon pepper soft plastic trailer to complete the sunfish illusion. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Chartreuse Shad Hole-In-One Skirt. Reliable sources say chartreuse shad is the most popular and most productive crankbait color sold in North America by Lucky Craft, a renowned Japanese crankbait manufacturer. Other Japanese and North American manufacturers have all added the chartreuse shad color to their crankbait product lines in the USA. Now you can use the chartreuse shad color in a skirt too. It has a smoky blue/gray back, a milky blue pearl belly with hints of a pale chartreuse tail. Whether a crankbait, jerkbait or now in a skirt, chartreuse shad is a great all-around producer under a wide variety of water coloration, clarity and conditions.

Chartreuse White Skirt. Who knows why chartreuse white works so well on spinnerbaits, but it does. Several of the sport's top celebrity anglers have made their legendary careers by throwing chartreuse white spinnerbaits. The color does not truly resemble any natural bait, but if you had to limit yourself to only one spinnerbait skirt color to throw, this is "the" number one most popular and productive spinnerbait skirt color in history. Works equally well in clear, stained and muddy water.

Chartreuse White Silver Skirt. Half chartreuse. Half white. All heavily-glittered with a glimmering silver scale sheen effect. The soft, seductive shimmer of the silver sparkle doesn't come through on the computer screen, but it's a very soft, almost liquid-like silver shimmer all throughout the skirt, Much more subtle and life-like than a harsh flash, it's just a glimmer. The black rubber band on this skirt mimics the black spot that shad show on their shoulders behind their gill plates.

Copper Rain Frog Skirt. The strands are a nice weedy green color, heavily infused with pearlescent micro-particles that give a ruddy reddish, pinkish, orangey or lustrous coppery sheen to the skirt, depending on the amount and angle of ambient light. The sheen tends to bend the green into a brownish. The sheen tends to come and go, and each strand emits a bit different sheen from the others, causing a constantly changing or shimmering effect. Looks like warm summer rain drops rolling off a green frog's back. That's why it is called "rain frog" and there's really nothing else quite like it. But that's not all! There's a thinj swatch of twisted metallic copper Mylar on the belly. The camera makes it look like there's more Mylar than is really there. Even still, you can thin out some of the copper Mylar. It will still be a full size skirt. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

It's also a great color during the spring shad spawn when shad exhibit dark-striped, contrasting body colors in order to attract and signal other adult shad to mate.

Dark Green Monkey Shine Skirt. This is a little darker twist on the Green Monkey Shine color skirt. It's only half green monkey shine strands, and the other half is dark green pumpkin. Both halves have black pepper flake in them. The pattern is finished with a swatch of  neon gold-glittered black fish scale strands for flash. The green monkey shine color (and now the new green pumpkin monkey shine) are not your ordinary jig colors, but bass love them. You will too! Works great on spinnerbaits also. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Dark Green Pumpkin Skirt. We don't need to say too much about dark green pumpkin. It's many anglers'  favorite soft bait color. Now it's a "must-have" jig skirt color too!

Nice dark green for duty in low light, at daybreak, in the evening (ideal for those weekday after work tournaments), and at night. Great for dirty water - or clear.

Two irregular print patterns - both black bars and spots - are imprinted onto this skirt. It really gives a broken-up and non-descript looking pattern. It gives a great mottled crawfish, baitfish or panfish look to this skirt.  Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Dark Green Pumpkin Blend Hole-In-One Skirt. One half heavily black barred, blended with half unbarred green pumpkin. A nice dark green for duty in low light, at daybreak, in the evening (ideal for those weekday after work tournaments), and at night. Great for dirty water - or clear. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

A satisfied customer says: "I caught this monster on the hole-in-one dark green pumpkin blend skirt which I put on the 1/2 oz green pumpkin Style T flipping jig head matched with a green pumpkin Berkley Chigger Craw trailer. I am impressed how green this skirt color becomes in the water." - John Clinton, Apple Valley, Minnesota

Dark Table Rock Shad Hole-In-One Skirt. In recent years, color patterns with names like Lavender Shad, Purple Haze, Purple Thunder, Sour Grape and Table Rock Shad have become popular and productive colors in jerkbaits and crankbaits. However, it's not too common to see a spinnerbait color along these lines. Now here's a stunning Table Rock Shad skirt color for spinnerbaits and jigs too. They come in two versions - pale and dark. The dark version (shown here) is often preferred by anglers in stained water. On the dark version, the top half of the skirt is a smoky blue gray brownish purple. The belly half is pearl chartreuse with a blue sheen to it.

Dark Watermelon Red Pepper Skirt. This is a hot, hot color in soft plastic baits. It ranks among the top-selling soft plastic colors worldwide. Watermelon red works equally well as a jig skirt - and even on a spinnerbait! By all means try a matching dark green pumpkin or watermelon red soft plastic trailer - and it's dynamite with a basic black plastic or pork trailer.

Two irregular print patterns - both black bars and spots - are imprinted onto this skirt. It really gives a broken-up and non-descript looking pattern. It gives a great mottled crawfish, baitfish or panfish look to this skirt.  Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Dark Watermelon Red Belly Skirt. This is a hot, hot color in soft plastic baits. It ranks among the top-selling soft plastic colors worldwide. Watermelon red works equally well as a jig skirt - and even on a spinnerbait! This skirt is mainly watermelon with black and red glitter plus a thin swatch of red and black barred belly strands. Try a matching dark green pumpkin or watermelon red soft plastic trailer - and it's dynamite with a basic black plastic or pork trailer.

Two irregular print patterns - both black bars and spots - are imprinted onto this skirt. It really gives a broken-up and non-descript looking pattern. It gives a great mottled crawfish, baitfish or panfish look to this skirt.  Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Dragonfly Hole-In-One Skirt. Whenever you see those 747-sized brown bombers buzzing around the water's surface, give this dragonfly color skirt a try on a spinnerbait, buzzbait or jig.

However, when it comes to spinnerbaits or buzzbaits, unfortunately for most anglers, they have never used a fire tiger skirt. Don't make their mistake. Start a fire. Toss the tiger.

Suggestions as to when best to use a fire tiger skirt:

• Cold water, early season, pre-spawn through post-spawn. Fire tiger skirt works great all the way from ice-out (early spring) through post-spawn (early summer). You will find some of the largest female fish aggressively hit this color from pre- through post-spawn even in gin clear water - or murky water. In fact, under any water conditions this time of season.
• Anytime you are around thick grass. No matter what season it is, fire tiger can be a most productive color in dense vegetation. Vegetation blocks bass from getting a full view of lures, but even partial glimpses of a bright fire tiger skirt are all that grass bass need to see to blast it.
• Muddy or heavily-stained water. Fire tiger also excels in muddy, murky or clouded water, whether it is dark, green, brown or copper-colored water.
• Windy Conditions. Fish can get fairly aggressive when the wind blows, and an aggressive colored bait like fire tiger will entice wind-driven bass best. Whenever the wind blows, try a fire tiger spinnerbait kept a foot or two below the wind-smeared surface chop - and prepare for savage strikes.

Try Gary Yamamoto's clear w/gold & silver (color #168) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt.

If you fish clear water, you owe it to yourself to try this skirt. It's that good.

Gold Shiner Flash Hole-In-One Skirt.  These skirt strands have highly-reflective gold and pale green crystals that light up and shine in clear water. A matching swatch of crinkle flash Mylar is tied in, and the pattern is topped off with a golden black fish scale accent. There's a lot more green and gold sparkle in this skirt in the water than the photo can show.

Green Craw Skirt. The black cross-hatching helps give this skirt a crawdad look. The ample green flakes and green glitter glisten and flicker under water.

Half black-barred brownish green-flaked strands on top. Half unbarred brownish green-glittered strands on the sides. The camera makes the orange belly strands appear out of proportion. Only 10 (out of a total 50) strands are black-barred orange. You can easily pluck a few of the orange strands out of the skirt when you use it, if you so desire. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Try Gary Yamamoto's smoke root beer w/green & copper (color #236) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt, but you can use any basic black, brown, green pumpkin or watermelon trailer with this skirt.

Green Monkey Shine Skirt. Most people who see this color may never try it. Pity the fools. It's their mistake. The khaki olive green color is kind of a cross between watermelon pepper and chartreuse pepper - and it catches a ton of fish. It has a golden black fish scale accent. Some people favor the gold black swatch on top, others like it on the belly. Fish will hit the skirt either way.

Try Gary Yamamoto's clear w/gold & silver (color #168) or translucent hot pink merthiolate (#320) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt. There's something about combinations of green and pink that bass like. It is why lures in rainbow trout colors work so well. It has nothing to do with rainbow trout. It's due to the contrast between green and pink combined in a bait.

Green Pumpkin Gold Flash Skirt. This is dark green pumpkin mottled with black bars and spots, plus a swatch of neon gold-glittered black fish scale strands for flash. The camera really highlights the gold, but note there are only 5 strands of gold among 44 strands of dark green pumpkin. That little extra flash and contrast can be the perfect touch to spark more and harder strikes at times. Give it a try. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Green Pumpkin Olive Skirt. One half dark green pumpkin. One half dark olive green. Both halves heavily peppered with mottled black bars and spots. This is just a great natural color. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Two irregular print patterns - both black bars and spots - are imprinted onto this skirt. It really gives a broken-up and non-descript looking pattern. It gives a great mottled crawfish, baitfish or panfish look to this skirt. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Try Gary Yamamoto's smoke root beer w/green & copper (color #236) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt.

Herring Skirt. This imitates blueback herring, alewife (or sawbelly), and Sacramento Hitch, an important bait species for big bass in California's Clear Lake and Sacramento watershed fisheries.

It excels in both clear and murky water. That may sound contradictory. How can one skirt excel in both clear and murky water? On one hand, the chartreuse black back provides vivid contrast in murky water or where visibility is obscured by thick vegetation. On the other hand, the clear, sparkling crystal belly is an asset in clear water where you may want to pluck out some of the chartreuse black strands to tone down the chartreuse

This skirt works with a black trailer or a white one. Truly a great skirt color.

June Bug Bluegill Skirt. This color resembles a bluegill sunfish. It has a multi-color black and purple appearance with superfine red neon and plenty of shiny blue foil and purple foil for flash. Goes great in dark stained to muddy water environments - or anywhere that bluegill exhibit that dark purplish appearance. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Many anglers mistakenly feel flash doesn't matter in dark water, low light or at night. Nothing could be further from the truth. Flash is often attractive in the right proportion, even in the darkest conditions. That's why this skirt is so heavily sparkled with blue and purple glitter.

Try anything black or try Gary Yamamoto's cinnamon w/purple (color #221) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt.

Merthiolate Skirt. Chances are you've never seen a skirt quite like this. It's half pale pink with sparse purple flake, plus half pale orange. Every strand is infused with pale green flakes. Give it a try. You will not be sorry.

Natural Frog Hole-In-One Skirt. Hollow rubber frogs and soft plastic toads have become a recent trend for fishing thick grass the last few years. Hollow frogs are often nudged or bounced along with the rod tip in order to impart some semblance of natural movement. Soft plastic toads are often kept moving, reeled or "buzzed" slowly across the surface of a congested grassy area. Many of these lures are colored to resemble natural frogs and toads - and so is this new frog /toad colored skirt that's perfect for buzzbaits, spinnerbaits and jigs fished around lily pads, grass and frog filled areas. It's Natural Frog. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Olive Brown Craw Skirt. One half dark olive pumpkin. One half brown crawdad color. Both halves heavily black peppered with mottled black bars and spots. A truly great natural color skirt.

With the two tone skirts, there's no strict rule or requirement to have one or the other half as the back or belly color. True, it seems more natural to present a dark top, light belly. Yet there are days when twisting the skirt around 180 degrees caused fish to hit harder. Who knows why, but if you are getting weak hits or half-hearted bumps on a multi-colored skirted lure, try to turn the skirt colors upside down and see if it doesn't make a difference. It may not look "right" to you, but there are days when this simple trick convinces fish to strike more solidl.. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Olive Cinnamon Skirt. One half olive green. One half light cinnamon brown. Both halves heavily peppered with mottled black bars and spots. Rattle ear band (rattles not included). A honey of a clear water color.

Olive Pumpkin Skirt. Dark green olive pumpkin heavily black peppered with mottled black bars and spots. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Pale Alewife Hole-In-One Skirt. The alewife is a baitfish species in the shad family. State fisheries managers have stocked alewives in many bass waters, and it occurs naturally in Atlantic tidal rivers, running up them to freshwater to spawn. The alewife is also called the sawbelly because of a ridge of sharp serrated scales on the edge of their bellies.

The dorsal or back of this alewife pattern is pale green with black mottling. The sides of the alewife skirt are white with silver. The belly strands are also white silver but tipped with pale chartreuse to add a tinge of lower fin and tail accent coloration.

Pale Herring Skirt. Imitates blueback herring, alewife or sawbelly, and Sacramento hitch (an important bait species for big bass in California's Clear Lake and Sacramento watershed fisheries). The back has a pale green chartreuse with black scales. Both the sides and belly of the skirt are milky white with pale green glints and pale blue glimmers. The black band represents the black gill spot on herring.

Fish find this skirt attractive. It's something slightly different - a color that's not entirely outside the ordinary - but still not the same skirt shown to the fish over and over again by every angler. Why not give it a try?

Pale Table Rock Shad Hole-In-One Skirt. In recent years, purple-backed color patterns with names like Lavender Shad, Purple Haze, Purple Thunder, Sour Grape and Table Rock Shad have become popular and productive colors in jerkbaits and crankbaits. However, it's rare to see a spinnerbait color along these lines - until now. This stunning Pale Table Rock Shad skirt goes great on spinnerbaits and jigs too.

The back of the Pale Table Rock Shad pattern is a smoky blue gray brown purple. The sides are milky white tinged with purple iridescence and black pepper. The belly strands are pale chartreuse with glitter.

PBJ Flash Skirt. Peanut Butter Jelly ("PBJ") first became popular as a laminate color in soft plastic lures in Southern California many years ago. The color had practically been forgotten until a resurgence the last few years. PBJ has recently been rediscovered as a "new" jig color. PBJ jigs have spread smoothly across the Southeast and Northeast USA. But PBJ never looked anywhere near this good until now! This new PBJ Flash skirt sticks to the roof of bass mouths. The photo here hardly does this color justice. The brown skirts are HEAVILY foiled on both sides with lustrous purple foil. The purple foil is laminated in an irregular swirling pattern. The purple foil constantly glistens in a fluid manner as the skirt strands ripple whenever moved. The purple flash flutters and practically drips off each strand in a liquid-like shimmering illusion. The photo hardly shows this metallic sheen. Try Gary Yamamoto's cinnamon w/purple (color #221) or smoke pepper (#150) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Peanut Butter Jelly Skirt. PBJ first became popular in soft plastic lures in Southern California many years ago - and practically became forgotten since then. In just the last few years, PBJ has been rediscovered as a jig color. PBJ jigs have spread smoothly across the Southeast and Northeast USA. But PBJ never looked anywhere near this good until now! This peanut butter and jelly sandwich sticks to the roof of bass mouths. Goes great as a spinnerbait skirt too. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Try Gary Yamamoto's cinnamon w/purple (color #221) or smoke pepper (#150) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt.

Pearl Blue Chartreuse Hole-In-One Skirt. Blends half snow white with silver, half pearl blue with silver, plus a slender swatch of chartreuse with silver. The chartreuse accent swatch can be spun around 180 degrees to be used on the back or belly of the skirt. Sometimes it may seem to make a difference to fish which side the chartreuse is on. If fish are not hitting it solidly, spin the chartreuse to the other side and see if that makes for better strikes. Of course, some anglers just personally prefer it on one side versus the other. Either way, it's good.

Pearl Blue Silver Skirt. The blue blush infusion in this pearl white skirt does not always come across in photos, but the blue blush shows up underwater, as does the silver sparkle you can see. This pearl blue silver is arguably one of the best "white bait" soft bait colors on the planet (such as Gary Yamamoto's color #031 for example) and is now available in a beautiful spinnerbait, buzzbait and jig skirt.

Pearl Blue White Skirt. Half snow white with silver flake. Half pearl blue with silver flake makes a great skirt for any occasion.

Rain Frog Skirt. The strands are a nice weedy green color, heavily infused with pearlescent micro-particles that give a ruddy reddish, pinkish, orangey or lustrous coppery sheen to the skirt, depending on the amount and angle of ambient light. The sheen tends to bend the green into a brownish. The sheen tends to come and go, and each strand emits a bit different sheen from the others, causing a constantly changing or shimmering effect. Looks like warm summer rain drops rolling off a green frog's back. That's why it is called "rain frog" and there's really nothing else quite like it. Fantastic for clear to stained water. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Rainbow Trout Hole-In-One Skirt. Sometimes less can be better, meaning the rainbow trout pattern here is less gaudy than what you typically see in rainbow trout paint jobs. Most rainbow trout colors accentuate the pink too much. In this version, the pink is toned down to a pearlescent ruddy pink haze infused into every single strand. Each green or white strand has ruddy pink pearlescent in it, so the pink is not a separate color, but an ingrained part of the green and white. Sometimes less can be better, as in this stealthy and stylistic new rainbow trout pattern.

Rusty Green Craw Skirt. A matching blend of three colors. All three are heavily mottled with black bars and spots which mesh the pattern together. Half mottled green pumpkin on top. Half mottled rusty brown. Plus a swatch of mottled fire red on the belly. This is a real crawdad-looking skirt color for jigs. It works equally well on spinnerbaits. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Rusty Red Craw Skirt. Some years ago, whether it was seven, eight, ten years back, ripping red lipless rattling crankbaits through grass in springtime was "discovered" in Texas. It was big news. The average angler was unfamiliar with the whole concept of red crankbaits. Even to this day, many anglers in other states still have not tried it. They still consider red baits to be a Texas phenomenon. Truth is, any angler anywhere in the world who has the gumption to try it, he or she will see that red crankbaits work at any latitude or longitude, especially from late winter through late spring, but also year-round.

Now the red craw phenomena applies to jig and spinnerbait skirts too, thanks to this custom-crafted blend of mottled red and black craw pattern with hints of rusty brown in it. You can't go wrong using a black pork or black with red flake soft plastic trailer with this skirt.

Overall, it is a great color for night, dirty water or dark conditions year-round. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

However, it's not just for dirty water only. From pre- to post-spawn, even in the clearest water, bass can't stand to see red jigs or red spinnerbaits. They almost can't help but smash them!

Shad-A-Delic Skirt. Oh yeah, baby! This shad pattern skirt in a special blend of three groovy Shad-A-Delic colors.

Half fine glittering silver. The other half metallic pearl white. These two halves together make the perfect shad sandwich!  Topped off with strands of black fish scale accent. At times if you may prefer a plain silvery white skirt, you can pluck the black fish scale strands out of this skirt, and it is still a full size skirt. That's Shad-A-Delic!

Smallie Special Skirt. Largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass do have differences in behavior and habitat. Especially when two or more of these species coexist in the same body of water, the differences between them become more obvious. When only one species of bass is present, it tends to overflow and command all possible bass niches, but where two or more bass coexist, their particular preferred behavior and habitat emerges, and they tend not to overlap each other. When it comes to lures and tactics, it's not as markedly different as habitat, meaning the many ways and baits to catch one kind of bass (size being equal) tend to catch all three bass types fairly well. Yet there are triggers and hot buttons that each bass species has, and one of them is color. This Smallie Special skirt infuriates smallmouth. It will have no trouble catching largemouth and spotted bass either, but the Smallie Special skirt gives ape fits to smallmouth. The color pattern is deceptive, since the hot chartreuse and blazing orange are so overpowering. Although it looks like more, there are only ten orange and chartreuse strands. There are forty snow white strands. So it is 80% white and 20% chartreuse/orange. That equals 100% dynamite on smallmouth bass.

Spot Special Skirt. This translucent skirt has a lot of glimmer to it, multi-color crystal flakes, and that see-through bubblegum color that spotted bass find so special. But don't stop there, smallmouth and largemouth go after this skirt like kids in a candy store.

Summer Shad Hole-In-One Skirt. A pale blue sheen is an innate tone almost always appearing on shad. Shad may show at least some sign of an iridescent aqua or pale metallic blue tinge at any and all times of year. So don't hesitate to use this outstandingly productive skirt all year long. However, especially in mid- to late summer, shad may exhibit a more pronounced blue appearance than at other times of the year - hence the name "summer shad" for this blue-tinged skirt pattern.

The dorsal or top half is a smoky blue color. The belly or bottom half is milky white pearl with a blue blush to it.

Try Gary Yamamoto's blue pearl w/silver (color #031), blue pearl hologram (#239) or daiquiri ice (#237) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt.

Super Silver Shad Skirt. Shad are among the shiniest meals a bass is ever likely to eat - and so are these dazzlingly brilliant skirts! Half silver foil fish scale imprint. Half bright silver hologram. These skirts are so shiny and flashy, the bass may need to wear sunglasses.

Threadfin Flash Hole-In-One Skirt. Dark smoky purple back. Pearl blue silver belly with crystal flash accent swatch for flickering sparkle.

Threadfin Shad Hole-In-One Skirt. Just add water and watch this threadfin shad pattern practically come to life. The dorsal or top half is a smoky green. The belly or bottom half is milky white pearl with a shimmering reddish pink blush to it.

Triple Chartreuse Skirt. Not one, not two but three blended tones of chartreuse abound in this skirt. It's impossible to tell the three apart from the poor photo quality, but you'll smile in appreciation when you see the rich triple chartreuse skirt tones "turn on the electricity" under water. First, there's chartreuse with an elusive milky blue sheen. Second, bright pearlescent chartreuse. Third, a swatch of black-peppered chartreuse with orange fire tips to incite bass to bite. Many anglers sagely opt for chartreuse in dark, dingy or shadowy water or in dim daylight conditions. Chartreuse also excels anywhere thick grass or thick cover of any kind obscures full view of a lure. A brief and partial glimpse of bright chartreuse gets noticed by fish in such sight-blocking situations. And then of course there are the hard-fighting smallmouth. For some unknown reason, smallies relish chartreuse better than other lure colors.

Warmouth Sunfish Skirt. Whether you call them warmouth, goggle-eye or red-eyed bream, this small member of the sunfish family is an aggressive feeder. It likes to lurk around brush, rubble and weedy areas in which it can hide, waiting to ambush any prey that comes past. In turn, the warmouth is hunted and preyed upon itself by bass. Bass eat many more sunfish than most anglers realize.

A warmouth's markings are generally blotched and mottled, with a brassy brownish green back, yellowish olive sides and belly, just like this imitative skirt. Warmouth are widely-found across the country, and this skirt imitates not just warmouth but many sunfish species, crayfish and plenty of other critters bass eagerly eat. So don't be afraid to toss a warmouth skirt at any bass anywhere. It's a winner! Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Try Gary Yamamoto's smoke root beer w/green & copper (color #236) soft plastic baits as trailers with this skirt.

Watermelon Skirt. Looking for a plain watermelon pepper skirt? Here it is. One of the top-selling soft plastic lure color in the world is now a great color for jig skirts. Sometimes plain and simple really may be better, especially if it's this nice watermelon skirt color. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Watermelon Candy Skirt. In soft plastic lures, watermelon candy has been a wicked clear-to-stained water color in the southeast USA and south central states for many years. Now for the first time, watermelon candy is available in a skirt. Just like the tried and true soft plastic bait color, this skirt has the desirable translucence so you can see through the watermelon color, and glistens with ample purple and metallic green flake. It's an instant classic skirt color! Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Watermelon Candy #2 Skirt. Bright green watermelon strands heavily infused with tons of metallic pale purple micro-glitter. The purple glitter is shinier and permeates the skirt far more than photo can show. This bright green, sparking purple skirt attracts more attention than drab watermelon skirts. Because of its higher visibility, this bright watermelon candy excels in thick grass. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Watermelon Candy Sunfish Skirt. This skirt color homogenizes the four primary colors of most all jigs: 1) black, 2) brown, 3) purple and 4) green in a single skirt. In this way, no matter what jig color a fish may have a hankering for, it's in here. It's not one or the other jig color, but all four of them at once! Best of all, the four colors are commingled so closely that they appear as "one cohesive color" instead of four separate ones. This is achieved by very close matching of the green, brown and purple tones in order to infuse into each other like the colors of a watercolor painting bleed into one another. The pervasive black barred and spotted mottling is the "icing on the cake" that binds and meshes the pattern into a cohesive singular theme. So it's not black, brown, green and purple any more. It's the power of all four in one. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Watermelon Chartreuse Skirt. Watermelon pepper is the top soft plastic lure color in the world, and a lot of anglers go through the effort to dye the tips of watermelon soft baits with bright chartreuse dye, thereby adding a shot of contrasting color. Now here's the same great color for jig skirts. This skirt combines a full 44 strands of mottled watermelon pepper with a swatch of chartreuse pepper strands to add the desirablt contrast. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

Watermelon Two-Tone Skirt. One of the top-selling soft plastic lure color in the world is now a great color for skirts. This two-tone skirt combines half dark green watermelon pepper plus half pale green watermelon pepper. So now you can use two tones of one of the world's best soft plastic colors at the same time in a jig skirt - and on a spinnerbait too! Believe it or not, watermelon is an incredible spinnerbait color - but 99 out of 100 anglers may never try a watermelon spinnerbait. Will you?

Two irregular print patterns - both black bars and spots - are imprinted onto this skirt. It really gives a broken-up and non-descript looking pattern. It gives a great mottled crawfish, baitfish or panfish look to this skirt. Rattle ear band (rattles not included).

White Pearl Skirt. One hundred percent pure white pearl skirt with a highly reflective metallic pearl sheen. Good in clear, stained or dirty water and at night too.

White Shad Skirt. The belly half is light, almost white silver pearl. The top half is a little darker (but still light) white silver pearl. The strand colors appear a little flat in the photo or in the hand, but when immersed in water, they glisten with a lustrous sheen.

"When fish are hitting your spinnerbait, buzzbait or jig, but not getting hooked, they're telling you your skirt color is pretty close to what they want - but something's still not quite right. One of the easiest things you can do is turn the skirt upside down. Keep in mind the fish may at times be striking or reacting to the lure from below, as the lure is falling through the water, they see the bottom of it. At other times, they may be hitting from above, as a lure comes to rest on bottom, they react to the top of the lure. If you are getting hits but not hooking up, do a complete 180 with the skirt. It may look odd to you, but it could be just right from the fish's perspective. It only takes a split second, and if it doesn't work, you can always turn it back the way you started."

"When some varieties of silicone skirts are freshly made, you may notice a faint motor oil type smell from them. Usually, anglers do not get skirts so fresh from the factory. Usually, it stems from the process that imprints fish scale patterns or imprints holographic foils on a skirt. Within a few weeks of being manufactured, the odor disappears as the silicone skirts fully cure, and the odor becomes undetectable. if you do detect such an odor, it is generally a good sign in that the skirt is brand new and at its peak of performance action and durability. The odor does not affect fish. They bite brand new fresh skirts, odor and all, even better than they bite older stale skirts."

"When some varieties of silicone skirts are freshly made, the individual strands can appear more slender, thinner than you normally see skirts. Usually, anglers do not get skirts so fresh from the factory. Since each individual strand appears thinner, the entire skirt appears like it has less fullness than normal. It is generally a good sign in that the skirt is brand new and in the prime of its suppleness, flexibility and performance. Within a few weeks to months of being manufactured, the individual strands start to plump up and the skirt appears fuller. Also, using the skirt, fishing with it, speeds up the process. Just by using a skirt, it will plump up rapidly from being immersed in water."

"When some varieties of silicone skirts become older, a process which starts almost immediately is the strands compressed under the rubber retainer band stick together underneath where the band exerts holding pressure. The strands get squeezed, and stick to each other under the rubber band collar as if they are glued together. This starts to happen right away, gradually little by little, and there is no prevention for it. The skirt strands get stuck together more tightly the longer they are left unused. They are still okay to fish with, and as soon as you do start using them, the strands will start to uncongeal from each other, separate and unstick from each other naturally within a short time as you fish with them."