Glow Chart kept simple

[Dongotto]

Got some glow chart powder and body material and paired it with some bright chart hackle. Nothing fancy just trying to copy my favorite bait which is a midsouth glow chart tube. One head is gold shiner.


Also played with a factory 1/16oz roadrunner with blue body and chart hackle. This is moving past curious and turning into a full blown addiction. LOL


Thanks to all that post as it really helps us new guys get ideas and see some of the fine points of rolling your own.

[Pepop]

Those are excellent!

[Scoot]

Really nice. Keep up the good work. Really nice colors also.

[skiptomylu]

Good job! Your doing just fine!

[sticksteer]

Good job, i like that gold shiner, is that a pro-tec color ?

[short grub]

Good job, i like that gold shiner, is that a pro-tec color ?

I to like that gold shiner do you have a base coat under it and if so what is it please sir.

oh Don, nice ties sir.

[Redman]

Dongotto Like your approach. Simple!!! I have found out thur the years that some of the best jigs that I have are the very sparse tied simple jigs. I use to fish a lot of Walleye and found out that after those toothy critters mauled a jig it seem to work better. Then I started to tie them thin and to my surprise they work as well if not better than some of the jigs that I had tied very full. When I arrived in Texas and started to fish Crappie I started to tie full jigs and then went to the thinly tied versions of the patterns that worked. Guess what they worked even better.

If you are selling jigs keep tying them full as your customers will feel that they are getting there moneys worth. If you are tying for yourself tie them sparse or thin.Most of you would laugh at some of the jigs that I use but they do put fish in the boat and in the freezer. This leads me to a basic premise that how you tie your body is more important than how you tie you tails. The tails just need a little action the rest you can put on by your rod. After all the lure that you are using is call a jig and what you are doing is call jigging that is what the rod is for. Make that jig act like a injured minnow or baitfish that is a easy meal and you got a fish in the boat.

Redman

[STUMP HUNTER]

Very good jigs

[Afterdark]

Good job, i like that gold shiner, is that a pro-tec color ?

If you guys are talking about the second jig, that color looks like Pro-Tec's "Candy Yellow"...
one of my favorites. It comes out much more green than yellow.

[skiptomylu]

If you guys are talking about the second jig, that color looks like Pro-Tec's "Candy Yellow"...
one of my favorites. It comes out much more green than yellow.

There is a trick to getting Candy Yellow to be Yellow and that would be to use it over a Gold Plated head and even then it's got a little Green to it, but not near as much as it is over lead or even a Nickel Plated head. Like this one...


I am not sure this pic is any better, but in hand the Yellow is really bright and still has some green tint to it. I think this way is so much better way to use Candy Yellow than others.
http://thumpitjigs.com/images/DSC05043B.JPG