For Someone New To Tying

[deathb4disco]

Lefty Kreh .... a true fly rod genius.

Yep! I'm gonna watch him cast this Saturday. He's 83 and can cast the whole line like it's nothing.

[BUCKET HEAD]

I've Thought About Learning To Tie, But Have Never Tried. Question, Do You Need To Be Artistic To Do This? I'm Asking Because I'm Not. Do You Need To Be Able See In Your Mind What It Is Going To Look Like?

[ShilohRed]

I've Thought About Learning To Tie, But Have Never Tried. Question, Do You Need To Be Artistic To Do This? I'm Asking Because I'm Not. Do You Need To Be Able See In Your Mind What It Is Going To Look Like?

Shoot I can't draw an ink blot but I can tie jigs that catch fish. Just watch a few of the on line tying videos and tie a few. It takes a while to catch on. but its not hard.
Also will put a smile on your face. When your catching crappie on them and the other guy in the boat is not. As he is using tub jigs. but did not take long to as to use on mine.:D
Pete

[dr_duff]

I took my brother in law Mike to go do some crappie fishing at Lower Otay Reservoir in San Diego California. I know we have some nice crappie in there and one of the most popular lures there is a Kalin's John Deere triple threat grub on 1/16 charetuse headed beetle spin. So a few nights before we went I tied a couple of jigs using Blakemore heads with the spinner on the underside. I tied them with charetuse and neon green maribou with a little bit of sparkle thread in them. I used just a basic green thread for the body. For those of you that fish the John Deere color we know that I have made nothing more than a jig with the same colors that I knew were succesful at the lake. Well after fishing for about two hours we got our first bite of the day and Mike had a hook up. I was excited to see that Mike was about to get a nice crappie like I had been telling him about for the last three days. Much to my surprize that crappie jumps out of the water and I realize it is not a nice crappie but something else. So after a few minutes Mike pulls in to the boat a very nice trout. This is the first trout that has been caught in my boat since I got the boat it in June of last year. So I have to say I was disappointed it was not the crappie I was looking for but I could not say how excited I was to see that the first fish of the day came on one of the jigs I tied. It turns out that this was the only fish we caught for the whole day. It was also the only one of my jigs that we had out, all other poles were rigged with grubs and jigs that I had bought and not made. Now I am looking for my first crappie on one of my jigs.