Badger hair jig

[Redman]

Here is a picture of a badger hair jig. This was a favorite yellow perch jig in the mid-west. The name in my area of the mid-west was GAY GORDON. It was named by Dr. Phillip Pugh.
He was a well known Surgeon in the Sioux City, Iowa area and fished the Iowa great lakes area. This was first tied by C.J. " Cap " Kennedy in Arnolds Park , Iowa in the early 1950's.
This has been a real cracker jack pattern. It is tied with a full amount of white, 2/3 of the amount of red as white and 1/3 as much green as red. We never painted the head. It has done well for me.

Several of you wanted ot see a badger hair jig so please enjoy. It is my opinion that it will work as well with kip tail as it works in Badger.

[Crappiehappy]

reminds me of a xmas tree jig.... Nice work.. what style head is that , cant tell if it has a collar

[Redman]

Thanks Crappiehappy : I should have added that it is tied on a 1/24 oz head with a # 8 sickle. That is a custom mold that I built back in the 1980's. If you have read any of my past post on molds I mentioned this one. I have another mold that will pour two jigs same weight 1/24 oz. but with a #6 and a #4 hook. One of the reasons that I like this head is that is very balanced. It hangs stright in the water. I tie all the line to the jig with a loop knot ( see Ship's tutoral on knots http://www.crappie.com/crappie/main-...beginners.html ) you don't have to worry about how it hangs it is straight. Notice that the majority of the weight is forward to the nose of the jig. My mentor in mold making taught me a trick to get a jig to balance. Not hard but you have to have a good eye for perportion. As far as having a collar it doesn't.

Redman

[Micropterus salmoides]

I like it. Its straight forward, "eat me", no frills. Never fished Kip, much less badger. What's the action like, Red?

[skiptomylu]

Jig looks good Redman, nice job!

Skip

[Redman]

Its action is fast best to fish it in the fall during the feeding frenzy of the bait balls and the fish are aggresive. Badger hair is fine and when tying best to use a A thread and get it as tight as possible with out breaking. I use a under coat of head cement let it dry before I do the final wrap and then coat again.

How are things on the Pearl?? Hope that they didn't kill all the fish but the pictures looked really bad.

Redman

[crappiedoc]

Redman,
I like that hair, it looks soft and shimmery. The head, well, that one, is also a really good job. Is that one of the pressed ones you've told me about? Excellent looking quality, wanna part with some of those heads?

[shipahoy41]

Wonderful pattern my friend. That will certainly fill your cooler. I love the loop knot for jigs. They will stay horizontal.

[STUMP HUNTER]

Nice jig Redman. Thumbs Up

[skeetbum]

As usual, nice jig. Love the head, different than usual. Christmas jig came to mind at first sight.