No One Uses Guinea Any Longer?

[PIE GUY]

Nice work Skip. I believe the latest commercial use of guinea feathers I have seen is the Arbogast hula popper 2.0

[skiptomylu]

Great looking jigs! One reason guinea feathers might be less popular these days might be all the new materials now available for jig tying?

If you ever read Greg Senyo's Fly Fusion book you'll read how he started tying flies using unconventional and synthetic materials for mostly steelhead fishing and essentially modernized the fly tying industry with new patterns. Some jig tyers (myself included) followed suit.

Today we have all kinds of cool and exciting materials to tie jigs with. The newer patterns are endless with all sorts of available resources to draw from.

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All true and to each his or her own is what I say. I just prefer using natural materials for most of my tying, but I do have some craft fur and a few other synthetics, but don't use them a lot. The craft fur ties nice and fish will eat it, but I hate the way it tangles in each other in the box. Know a guide here on this lake that ties his own and it's all he uses.

Hair, my favorite I guess is Rabbit, but also like some other natural kinds. I find rabbit tuff and easy to tie really and can make the entire jig with the head and a strip of rabbit and the crappie love it as it's a lot like marabou.

Skip

[skeetbum]

Nice jigs Skip. I tied some a few years back, spurred from your post about them. I mostly tie for what I use or folks ask for now and don’t have much call for the guinea. Still have the feathers, and you know how history repeats itself.

[Brimfisher]

I have a pile and use Guinea feathers. I think they make a great minnow jigs. I like to shoot docks with them.


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[skiptomylu]

I have a pile and use Guinea feathers. I think they make a great minnow jigs. I like to shoot docks with them.


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Nice jigs for sure! I like how they come in all sizes and so many different patterns and sizes of the spots.

Skip

[Brimfisher]

Ya know I think I goofed with that picture. I'm pretty sure that that's actually from my Dominecker rooster. Oops. I do have some Guinea jigs too.

Nice jigs for sure! I like how they come in all sizes and so many different patterns and sizes of the spots.

Skip

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[skiptomylu]

Ya know I think I goofed with that picture. I'm pretty sure that that's actually from my Dominecker rooster. Oops. I do have some Guinea jigs too.

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I was kind of wondering about the feather, looked a little funny for a Guinea feather, lol!

Skip