okay guys got a question

[snake River]

I use a wide variety guys. We use the marabou hair hackle. I carry assortment when I go fishing it varies from time to time depending on what the fish are feeding on on what type jig they will strike and is red man has indicated there are warm water cooler water that will cause them to strike the different materials. Also keep in mind that whatever they feed on. I tried to match material to that type of bait marabou has a movement like no other when I was a teenager. I tied up marabou and made streamers which were a killer on crappie White in yellow and red were the combination colors . I tied up a bunch of black hackle jigs for my neighbor. He did really well with them and they always called them black ant's . They were not as long as what you guys usually tire. These are a little bit shorter. Yes I matched them up to 1/32 one 16th ounce and we were using about a half inch or so for the tail hackle is always been a deadly material to use like red man said skip is probably the number one knowledgeable person for hackle. We do use a different type of Hackel , then Norm we use one similar to what you would use on a streamer. You might say that the first saddle awful roosters. I normally buy white by the pound in I do my own custom dying . My favorite time material is marabou and hair it is not hackle surprised you.

[shipahoy41]

You have to go with what the fish tell you too. I may thread some Hackle through a Jilly Jelly body and see what it looks and fishes like.

[FishlessMike]

Marabou with some crystal flash, in a complementary color, of course.

[STUMP HUNTER]

(For longlining)
I like to use both marabou and hackle jigs. With longlining a hackle jig has more movement while moving than a marabou jig so hackle seems to work most of the time but, on my last two fishing trips the fish didn't want much movement and the marabou jigs out caught the hackle. When you think you have the fish figured out they change. I start pulling with a few of each tied on the lines and it doesn't take long for the crappie to tell you the one they want "for that day".

If I'm jigging or fishing a jig under a float it's marabou or a hair jig I use.

[Fatman]

hackle, marabou, kip, squirrel and I tried some of the artic fox (got a real SMALL piece in a material swap box on FAOL).

Zac, Picture a dry fly with the wrapped hackle and when fished the barbules are flicking around like little legs, kind of the same thing with a hackle tail on a jig, as you pull it towards you it flattens but let it start sinking and all the hairs are undulating like little legs.

Fatman

[78mudbug]

i started out using bucktail and squirrel now i almost always tye with hackle

[snake River]

(For longlining)
I like to use both marabou and hackle jigs. With longlining a hackle jig has more movement while moving than a marabou jig so hackle seems to work most of the time but, on my last two fishing trips the fish didn't want much movement and the marabou jigs out caught the hackle. When you think you have the fish figured out they change. I start pulling with a few of each tied on the lines and it doesn't take long for the crappie to tell you the one they want "for that day".

If I'm jigging or fishing a jig under a float it's marabou or a hair jig I use.

I used two years ago take most of feathers or marabou off my jigs. So I would only have a 1/4" left on the jig it seems like I can't more fish that way . I believe that you are right stomp they did not want any or no action in the feathers. That's why a quarter of an inch was little or no movement just enough to get them to strike. You might say like a little tail wiggling Walsall I found out there in the 60s we were using stiff nylon or a tale which did not have no action at all, but it was deadly because I was you soon marabou beside a other guy when I was a kid and not catching anything. The nylon jigs were knocking them dead. You might keep that in mind when you are tying up a bunch of jigs to get some nylon clear and tying up on like a little brush.

[Redman]

Hey Snake then what would be wrong with using say 20lb. test big game line for a tail. Now that is a interesting idea. Maybe a silver tinsel body and a Big game tail, wouldn't take much to do a jig like that might have to tie a few and report back. New pattern Snake's Killer. This maybe a good way to use some of that old line that I have laying around.

Redman

[pondhopper]

I've used the braided lines for tails tie a knot in one end hit it with a lighter to seal it into a hard knot. Then slide a bead on tie it in . does pretty dang good and you are able to change bead color out to match the body style. You can use an small blades too. without swivels . Dosen't seem to stop them from biting .