My First Ties

[AtticaFish]

With all the new members coming on the forum and saying how bad their first tries look, I just had to go dig around in my basement and see if I could find some of my first. Don't laugh too hard, these probably weren't my 1st attempts, but close. Guessing somewhere between 6th & 8th grade (20 yrs. ago) and had only a 50 page book to learn by. When I found crappie.com, my tying skill improved a little. :rolleyes:

This is my brain.......






This is my brain on Crappie.com.........



I loved spinning deer hair back then, was one of the first real "tricks of the trade" I learned. Even the ugly jigs caught fish too. I don't have too many old jigs, I cut them down cause they were too expensive to get more, hooks were cheap.

Anyone else have any of their first tries hiding in the closet? Lets see them.

[PawPaw Gene]

Pretty sophisticated looking for first ties. Great man, those look great. Much better than my pile of feathers.

"gene"

[bassman356]

Guessing somewhere between 6th & 8th grade

Heck, I was still trying to learn how to tie my shoes, but I've always been a SLOW learner & a FAST forgeter!! LOL

[Crappiekiller3]

Those are pretty damn good Attica for first ties!!!
A whole lot better than as PawPaw said "the pile of feathers" and especially
maribou from my first ones. Being a confident person, I took em fishing anyway. My first clue was when a crappie came up to the surface and asked"
what in the world is that"? I said it's my new jig, to which he replied, not in my world it ain't!!! So I took my jigs home, threw them away (didn't want to polute the lake!) and started all over again. After 2 or 3 hundred more ties and a lot of help from "real tiers" I'm not ashamed of them any more......well
maybe a few of them:D

[shipahoy41]

My first ties ended up in the lake. I threw the jokers in there. To me they were garbage. Two months later I caught some fish at that lake. You guessed it. Some had my original jigs in their belly. I guess they liked them.

[JUNGLEJIMJIGS]

You caught fish on them I'm sure,if they didn't you probably wouldn't be tying now. I started without the aide of a book and used to tie my thread in knots onto the hook shank.I wish I still had a few of my first ties to how much better the ones I do now are.Of course better materials like we have now make tying easier,quality of the materials make a huge difference.

[skeetbum]

Haven't been tying but a few months so you've already seen my firsts, and I've posted many since. I had an advantage in that I got to watch folks that knew the ropes before I picked up a piece of thread. Your firsts weren't bad for a kid using scrounged materials. If those were mine I would mount em in a shadowbox or something to keep them for the years to come.