Have seen some of the survivor type shows some of them catch fish using pretty rudimentary stuff.

However if your jigs are coming apart easy then try using something else as materials. My jigs don't come apart, now if you catch enough fish they will eat the feather tail off, but that take a lot of bites.
Marabou we have caught as many as 125 crappie on a single Roadrunner that I tied and others have told me of catching 300 or more on a single Hackle tail jig.

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