May be a little off topic but... always love to know background info.

I came about tying lures a little backwards. Picked up a tying kit at a garage sale, for $5, almost 20 years ago, now I'm 30 or so. I didn't have a fly rod then...... or even knew what a crappie was! Spent years makin bugs and spun deer hair flies to fish behind a bobber on my spinning gear for bass and gills. My Dad bought me a fly rod around age 14 and have tied flies and some jigs for bass off and on ever since. My biggest lrg. mouth to date was caught on a fly rod with one of my own spun deer hair mouse/hackle tail.

I got into the jigs about a year ago and have trouble thinking anything else. Switched over from a bassman to crappieman pretty much. Had done well with store bought marabou jigs before, but have many bags of crappie and gills in the deep freeze already this year and most have come from my own jigs. Just love doing this and would like to know any info on how ya all got into tying jigs. - AtticaFish

Personal Goal: Gona make a jig that will catch perch on Erie like the live emerald shiners get em!!!! Wanna see my Dad's jaw drop. :rolleyes: