Thread: Emergency jigs

Back when I was a Boy Scout we did a 50 mile pack pack in the high Sierra mountains in California. I had three jars of salmon eggs. Well the fish just tore them up. I ran out of eggs, so I cut the inside of my red flannel shirt and soaked it in the left over juice. What a great memory, and I did try out pipe cleaners also in the clear water. Spinner blades out of pop tops.

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Interesting to say the least

Have seen some of the survivor type shows some of them catch fish using pretty rudimentary stuff.

However if your jigs are coming apart easy then try using something else as materials. My jigs don't come apart, now if you catch enough fish they will eat the feather tail off, but that take a lot of bites.
Marabou we have caught as many as 125 crappie on a single Roadrunner that I tied and others have told me of catching 300 or more on a single Hackle tail jig.

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I did the same thing as a kid. But I used the red plastic off of the out side of baloney. I would take a couple slices from home, eat the meat and make baits out of the plastic. Thanks for bringing that memory back to me.

As a kid I lost my last crappie jig one time... I mashed a split shot on a hook and cut a narrow piece of white cloth off of my T shirt and tied it on and finished fishing catching crappie on it...You just never know what will work. I even beat my Dad fishing that day.

Sorry folks but Don started me to thinking about times as as a youngster. I would save the corn off of sweet corn ends after we had supper, cut off the kernels and take them to the river and fish for carp till dark. Mom said not to bring any more home but I had a really big one and wanted her to see it. On the way home a farmer next door said he would trade me for a dozen apples and a muskmelon if he could have the fish. DEAL. We had melon the next day and mom made an apple pie. Try and make that trade today. Oh, mom never got to see the carp. Sorry but like I said it's Dons fault. Thanks Don