Hair or plastic

[Sandwich Maker]

I use both but let others shoot the plastics. Feel like that for my type of fishing that I can make about 90% of every thing that I fish. I do both hair and feather jigs. Plastics have there place and we have many good shoots on this board. Take a look at RonDon's work and also Snake River. Two of the best IMHO. I feel that I can tie a bigger variety of jig patterns and the plastics fill the holes. Just a thought form a old Geezer.

Redman

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[Redman]

Skip I thought that you were a year younger than me. I know that Ship is a year or two older than me. So it is a honest mistake. You so look younger than 64 you have aged nicely. I get cranky and figure that I have earned that right to be so because I have lived as long as I have. To some of the younger folks on here in there 20's and 30's I will say that growing old aint for sissys.

Redman

[skiptomylu]

Skip I thought that you were a year younger than me. I know that Ship is a year or two older than me. So it is a honest mistake. You so look younger than 64 you have aged nicely. I get cranky and figure that I have earned that right to be so because I have lived as long as I have. To some of the younger folks on here in there 20's and 30's I will say that growing old aint for sissys.

Redman

Thats cool Redman, I have always been figured by others to be younger than I am. It's just been one of them things and most are kind of shocked when they learn my real age, LOL! So I am use to that by now for sure.

[Fatman]

I pour em paint em and tie em!!!! But I leave the plastics to Ron and Snake and others. Their prices and quality are way better than the box stores and color mix's they keep coming up with is amazing.

[skiptomylu]

I pour em paint em and tie em!!!! But I leave the plastics to Ron and Snake and others. Their prices and quality are way better than the box stores and color mix's they keep coming up with is amazing.

Agree to easy to just buy some than get into making them. Lots of great soft plastics on the market.

[no1son]

All I use are plastics and the occasional GULP; so I do not see any need for me to tie. I do not pour plastic either since there is such a variety available these days. I have more problem finding just what jig heads I prefer, though; so I am seriously considering casting my own lead. But that is about as far as I intend to go, if even that far. More time spent fishing is really what I want. At 63 these old eyes aint quite as sharp as they used to be and these aging fingers are quite as nimble either.

[invertedn04]

thanks for all the help.my mind is made up then tying it will be.i've read and think i know what's needed as far as tools.is there somewhere i can find a few basic recpies for me to start with? what type of hair,feathers or stuff do i need to get? again thanks for the help

[skiptomylu]

Feathers it's either Neck Hackle or marabou, it's again up to you and what look you want. I like 210 Danville Flat Waxed thread best, but do use some 140 denier too and that in both Danville or Ultra Thread. Get thread to match your chenille you want. If you think you want to tie some hair try kip tails and use a jig head with a collar for them to make it a bit easier. With chenille no collar at all. Personally I would get bobbins that have ceramic tips to keep your thread from cutting. Get some good scissors for your feather & thread cutting. If you decide to go with some hair you need a 2nd set of scissors for that and keep them just for hair. Don't scrimp on the scissors IMHO!

I have a slide show in the sticky post at the top of this board and it's a basic chenille jig. You can try the tails like I do them or maybe it's easier to do what most to and that would be use 2 neck hackle tips.

Also read all the sticky post at the top of this board to decide what you need and where to buy. Ask more later.

After you tie a few ask questions to go from there.

Skip

[Redman]

Pay close attention to Skips slide show. I have seen a video some where on the web of this technique. The whole jig is tied in a short period of time and will also show you how to use a whip finishing tool at the same time.

Welcome to the world of jig tying. It is a great addiction and one that it hurts only your pocket book not yourself.

Redman

[Bronson]

Got this email the other day and it's one a couple of you might enjoy. THIS ONE REALLY HURTS! Have you ever been guilty of looking at others your own age and thinking, surely i can't look that old. Well you'll love this one.

My name is Alice and i was sitting in the waiting room for my first appointment with a new dentist. I noticed his dds diploma on the wall, which bore his full name. Suddenly, I remembered a tall, handsome, dark-haired boy with the same name had been in my high school class some 40-odd years ago. Could he be the same guy that i had a secret crush on, way back then? Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought. This balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was way too old to have been my classmate.

After he examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended Morgan Park High School . He answered, "Yes, yes, I did. I'm a Mustang," he gleamed with pride. I asked, "when did you graduate?"

He answered, "in 1974, why do you ask?" You were in my class!", I exclaimed. He looked at me closely. Then, that ugly,
old, bald, wrinkled-faced, fat ---ed, gray-haired, decrepit, son-of-a-***** asked, "What did you teach???"

You gotta love it!