Thread: Why do you fish hand tied?

Originally Posted by deathb4disco

1. As a general rule, fur & feathers are more durable than plastic.

2. F&F have a very subtle action that can't be matched with plastics, IMO.

Makes it better in cold water, subtle mvmt


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Good kip tail supplier?
I got some and most is really short

Thanks


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Originally Posted by brettw

Good kip tail supplier?
I got some and most is really short

Thanks


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Sometime you need to order over the phone and when you do tell the guy to please choose your tails to have longer hair. Some places it's hard to order over the phone, but that is about the only way I order supplies. So when you choose where you buy, I would also like it if I can speak to a guy that call pull some of my order!

Thos is how I have bought my materials for the last 10-12 years! I do not really like ordering on line most of the time!

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Why do I tie my own jigs,

It is a craft that goes back as long as fishermen have fished. The first man to fish could not go buy what he needed he had to use what was available to him. He went through many trial and errors to be able to catch his fish. He didn't fish for the sport of fishing he fished to feed himself and his family. By his learning he passed it on to his sons and others.

Today has not changed much in our wants and the need to learn what works to catch fish. I started like most did with small amounts of materials and as I have seen my tyes being able to catch fish my need for my learning of the craft became strong and stronger. Now after many years of tying and catching the passion to be able to catch fish on my hand crafted jigs have not faded at all and "This is the Reason I tie my own jigs".

Like others I have boxes of many plastic baits because they also work but plastics will never be able to replace the natural materials for movement.
What a great pleasure it is to pass the craft of tying on to others and to watch their passion for tying and fishing grow.

Ronnie

THEY NEVER STOPPED WORKING THINGS ARE MADE TO CATCH THE FISHERMAN NOT THE FISH!!!!

I have actually conducted very scientific tests for close to a year now and I must disagree. My fishing partner fishes plastics exclusively and I fish my hand tied feather jigs exclusively. We change back & forth which boat we take but I'm in the back probably a little more than the front mainly due to his living at the lake. Admittedly there have been a few occasions when he has caught more than me, and all of those were when I was in the back seat but by a WIDE margin, my feather jigs out fish his plastics PLUS my feathers have routinely caught bigger fish. I guess it could be just an East Texas thing but whatever the reason, I don't see me reverting back to plastics any time soon (I fished plastics for many years before I started tying jigs)!

Not sure if anyone has mentioned price but I have all the other logical reasons that have been mentioned for using my hand tied jigs but if you look at expense I think hand ties are the way to go also. I know the initial costs of buying all equip. and materials is a cost but if you use plastics and nothing else and you fish a lot, then the plastics will be a more costly way to fish. I know it was mentioned but anyway I was fishing a local lake day after thanksgiving and caught 80 plus crappie, on the same jig. I tie my own hair jigs and some are not very pretty but they catch fish and when I tie them I make them with a little , more head cement and tie them to last. Now that same 80 plus fish using plastics like I do sometime would have probably cost me a couple dollars .

To add a little more to glasseyes post, I have had more than one person come back to me and tell me they caught over 300 fish on a single jig I tied. Personally I have seen my neighbor catch 125 crappie on one marabou Roadrunner and we all know marabou is one of the weaker materials to tie with and even though the tail got smaller and smaller, they were still hitting it when he decided to tie on a new one! Personally I have caught between 80 and 100 before loosing a Roadrunner several times. So for sure soft plastics will cost more for each trip fishing for ever if using just soft plastics and also need the water to get above 50 before it's really good for that material IMHO!

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