Thread: Todays Ties

Originally Posted by deepfry

Skip, could you elaborate on the direction of the chenille? How can you tell if it is the right way??

I really like like the gray ghost jig at the top.

Mainly talking about Rayon which most regular chenille is that and the other is Nylon which is all the Florescent colors and there is a Black and Brown in both kinds. They also have a couple other colors in Nylon, but most chenille colors that is not Mylar is going to be Rayon. If you take a piece of Rayon chenille and gently hold it between thumb and finger and pull it with other hand, it will feel more rough one way and the other way will feel more smooth. You want to always tie it in using the rough end so when you make your wraps it will look more even and not like that top jig looks with the flat looking places.
Also sometimes you get Mylar on a card and if they put it on right and it's been on that card a while it will lay one direction more than the other and you want to tie it in so its lean ends up pointing back. Lots of times thought it has no direction of a lean and then it doesn't seem to matter. With Mylar it really is not near as important as the Rayon and really that is only to make it look like a better tie! I doubt the fish care, LOL! However we all care what our jigs look like to other guys right?

I have written a ton of tips here and some o learned on my own amd some I searched for and found answers. Real all the sticky post at the top too.

Skip

Originally Posted by Minus 1

Skip , for an old geezer , you got the eyes of a young eagle !!

LOL, it's just that drove me crazy when I first started tying and my jigs looked like that sometimes and other times they looked fine. So at some point I just started playing around with it and discovered the direction thing and sice then I do not ever do that. However when you run into a spliced spot many time the end changes and have to go to the other end to get the good one!

Skip

I really like the Gray Ghost. A reflective flat or 3d eye would be a real topper for it. I do very well on those with just a couple of pieces of flash in different colors but not mixed, just one color flash per jig. Very well done.

Those a really nice!!! Good job.