hackle
marabou
SQUIRREL TAIL! (I use hackle and bou the most but i do love my squirrels)
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hackle
marabou
SQUIRREL TAIL! (I use hackle and bou the most but i do love my squirrels)
I see a lot of you guys mention hackle is your favorite tying material what type of Hackel are you using.
Bob take a deep breath turn around and head back to the plastic side. Sorry guys I turn my back just for a second and ole Snake got off his chain. Bad Snake bad lolQuote:
Originally Posted by snake River
For tails I use the cheapest hackle I can find with lots of tips. I have a bunch that is really short and basically all tips as far as usable material and they work great.
Its mostly about the color . But myself I like hackle , buck tail , marabou , kip , squirrel , synthetics in that order for crappie . The order changes for location and species . When I was a kid I did a lot of damage to pond crappie with a split shot run up to a gold abberdeen hook and a triangle piece of yellow rag as a tag on the hook.
I like marabou best, but hackle has it's place.
mine is hackle right now..I am wanting to experiment with artic fox...
I love arctic fox, it just has SO much movement it tends to wrap around itself and the hook. Caught a good number of fish on an arctic fox clouser last summer.Quote:
Originally Posted by PBUG2009
Marabou,bucktail,squirrel and hackle in that order.
Quivira Hope that Skip joins in on this one as he is the Master of the hackle tail jig. I tie them not my strong suit but they have good action and do last a good long time. Like them on my bream jigs.
As far as what I use as tail material on my crappie jigs. On Caddo lake and I think that this is true for most lakes in North east Texas and North West Louisiana, I have found that in the warm weather months Marabou is the best material. In the cold months I found that kip tail is the best. Why, Marabou has a better action when the fish are more active and kip has a slower action when they are less active and you need to slow things down. Right now I am using kip tail and fishing really slow. I found out it pays off, a trick a old boy showed me here on the lake. You will find out that it will very from state to state and area to area. Just my my humble opinion. Keep remembering that if works for you keep doing it and if it aint broke don't fix it.
Redman