My Jig Tying Evolution...

[The Kraken]

...is a short trip! And ever evolving. Two and a half weeks ago I started reading up on jig tying. I had tied the last walleye snell my triple great grandchildren will use! Thats about eleventy billion if your keeping track. Anyways, I needed something to do with my spare minutes a day and figured it'd be an easy transition.

After reading crappie.com and watching youtube videos for a few evenings, I jumped in. Bought a vise, some maribou, bps jigs, flash and thread in various colours and so on and began twisting up my own slab slaying weapons of doom. I kept up on cdc and backread threads, admired everyones handy work, and attempted to emulate my versions.

Its been easy to go overboard. I'd never dipped my own jigs before, never built a fluid base, never caught a mess of crappie on jigs of my own creation, which I did last weekend.

Anyways, Its been fun to say the least.

To anyone wanting to get involved with a jig swap but hasent, I encourage you to do so. I'm mailing out the first of many to come swap ready and hopefully water worthy jigs and can't wait to see what the postman brings me in return!

I included a semi chronological evolution in my two weeks of tying. Starting with my first, ending with a few from yesterday. (does anyone elses' work bench look as crazy as mine?)

Cheers and Happy Jigging