I have tried all the colors, and they all work fine, and I have tied them in a variety of sizes and materials, and they all work fine...and now I have narrowed it down to purple in clear water and pink in colored water, and those two work just as well as all the other colors do.

I also stopped bothering with tying them as I have found that a pink or purple hootchie crammed on a leadhead works as well as any other material and takes about fifty cents and ten seconds to build up.

I still tie up a handful every year and fiddle around with colors and sizes, but 90% of the time I will have either a 2 1/2" or 4 1/2" hootchie, in either pink or purple, on my line.

Fish on...

Todd