U V jigging spoons for crappie and perch ?

[ougot1]

I see more U V spoons for sale every year , are they really any better for crappie and perch than the the basic silver and gold and the glow spoons ? any replies appreciated !

[hardwater diehard]

Spoons in general are great baits ..any lil tweak can help produce more bites UV is also a good option .. I love glow ..and rattles

[slipperybob]

Because sometimes one needs to make subtle changes when the bite shuts off on a certain productive method.  I used to do just fine with a plain gold and silver.  Then I noticed that the hammered pattern picked up some bites when I couldn't get a bite.  Then also noticed that during low light, glows get more solid bites.  Noticed that when fishing deeper water, the UV ones got a more solid bite.  Not always as such the case but sometimes just a little difference.

Keep this in mind though.  The old fluorescent orange and chartreuse paint were naturally UV reflective.  So I don't just went all hyped over buying variety of UV lures.

[hardwater diehard]

[sra61]

Last season we used this little Northland Flutter Buckshot for crappie and doing damn good with them. I glow them up a lot.

[huffwin]

Does anyone have a video on the best way's to get the UV tackle to work? Do you shine a light down the hole or what?

[slipperybob]

Does anyone have a video on the best way's to get the UV tackle to work? Do you shine a light down the hole or what?

UV reflective coating/colors rely on natural sunlight with UV to perform.  In the water natural sunlight only penetrates so far down the depth but the UV waves penetrates so much deeper into the water depths.