New Jig I have been wanting to do

[snake River]

that would definitely be a killer jigs skip in the smaller sizes using marabou for the tail end of Hackel body that should be a bluegill killer we have made them up using hair on the tail I have used many different materials for the tail using hackle along with it we will try to post some of those directly as you probably know if you used a hackle directly behind the head it will have a fanning action which looks terrific in the water but we've done it many different ways even like you've done skip with a full wrap of the body of Hackel the same processes are woolly worm we have used different colors of Hackel or the body and also behind the head what we are talking about is the body would be yellow hackle in behind the head of the jig would be red and maybe the tail would be white the combination of white yellow red has always been a good combination for me on crappie has we use to tie up many streamers with marabou with a yellow body of throat read we put them marabou behind the eye of the hook and always put a piece of red on the tail very little the marabou was always white the streamers were killers is you can work them with your fly rod they would be under the surface a foot or more when the fish were feeding on top we had no problems on catching fish it's been a long time since we have fly fish for of crappie but it is a ball you will occasionally catch a large mouth bass where I used to fish would scare the heck go to you because you think you would have a world record crappie in a course the bluegills would not leave me alone sometimes they were a nuisance but all in all it was a lot of fun catching a variety of fish use the fly tying technology with making jigs is always been fun for me and like you have done skip this is terrific this will definitely teach more skills on making jigs keep up the good work we enjoy looking at your stuff.

[shipahoy41]

Snake,

I started my jig tying years ago by imitating streamers and woolly boogers on jig heads. Some fly patterns on 1/64 or 1/80 jig heads are deadly on bream.

[skiptomylu]

Well I have way too muck high quality dry fly hackle not to use it some and I think this is a good way, but not this big of a hook as I am thinking even crappie will hit these tiny jigs in the spring so add some big blue gill to that and it becomes worth using it and that is better than it just sitting here doing nothing. Just maybe go to a #8 sickle hook and different type tails.

Thanks guys!

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