Quote Originally Posted by skeetbum View Post
And before you say that you don’t have the tools to give it a try, don’t say that. There was a gent on here a few years back that spoke of getting his first vise, and he had been tying for over 30 years. He took a pair of needle nose vise grips and put them in his bench vise to hold the hooks, and used whatever materials he could find wherever and his wife’s sewing thread. Point is, it doesn’t have to be expensive of perfect to catch fish. Welcome aboard, and there are no dumb questions. I have probably already asked them.
I tied my first hair jig earlier this spring using these exact tools and a patch of grey beard hair that I got from trimming my beard. Looks like a grey ghost( I call mine Ole Grey Beard) and caught a lot of crappie and bluegill on it.