Bluegill Silicone Skirt Tab (8817-071)

Best use:
A bluegill-pattern tab for waters where sunfish are the forage: blue, copper, red, orange, green pumpkin, and brown in one multi-colour tab, made for swim jigs and casting jigs worked around bluegill cover. It earns a permanent slot on lakes where every pocket holds a bluegill bed.

Avoid when:
Avoid it where the forage is shad — a silver-white profile matches that bait better — and in muddy water, where a multi-colour pattern muddies into one dark tone and a brighter high-contrast skirt draws more strikes.

Overview:
The 8817-071 Bluegill is a silicone skirt tab in the Multi-Colored series, carrying Blue, Copper, Red, Orange, Green Pumpkin, and Brown. Sold in packs of 10, 50, and 100 tabs.

Why it works:
A live bluegill is not one colour, and neither is this tab — the mix of cool blue, warm copper-orange, and green pumpkin does what a single-colour skirt cannot: it changes with the light the way the real fish does. Against a bluegill-fed bass, matching that shifting colour is the whole argument.

Where it works best:
Around docks, grass lines, and spawning flats where bluegill hold; strongest in clear to stained water where the pattern can actually be read.

Presentation notes:
Band it whole for a full bluegill skirt, or pair it with green pumpkin tabs to calm the pattern down. This is a skirt component: tabs only, no hook, no jig head, no finished lure. On a swim jig, keep it high in the water column where the pattern shows.