Many of you will glance over Ship's post and quickly dismiss it as merely a biography of someone who is great at making fishing lures; you'd better read it again... and again!

All quotes originally posted by shipahoy41

Me, I'd rather just try and invent it, of go to flea markets and thrift stores and look for fur and feathers.
It simply doesn't take expensive strung hackle to make an effective jig! There's an abundance of materials available in your house already - or as Ship said - at the flea markets, etc.

...taking a bb split shot, flattening it on a jig hook and making "Aspirin head jigs". Yes I painted them with a shot of spray paint...
Just do it, and see for yourself that it works. Then go catch a fish on this basic jig.
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Challenge to Ship:
Go back in time a few years and re-create the BB split-shot jig, using flea market hair/feathers and spray paint. Do a pictorial and describe the process. You love writing How-To's and photography already, so....when do we get it? I'm sure it would be a hit with eveyone, and I recommend it go in the Archives as mandatory reading for beginners!!
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.....and started to research about tying...
Research. Research. Research.
Dig through the posts on Forums here, on Tackle Underground, and the links listed in the Archives.

.... but the basics I will freely share with the next generation.
Be a mentor to someone else; you will always know more than someone just starting out. "Dave" and "Jack" showed Ship....now Ship is showing us. Kinda like 'casting bread upon the waters'.

Of course, all of us don't have that natural born creativeness, talent, and desire to learn like Ship. I like the refence to GWC; there's a lot that can be done with a peanut...and there's a lot that can be done with the most basic of materials for learning jig tying. Anybody that can do something with [almost] nothing is an extraordinary individual.

Nowadays it seems that so many people want the experts to 'inject' them with everything they know in one brief lesson, i.e.
"just tell me what I need to know; I don't want to have to go through all that research and practice and stuff..."

Ship - I'm taking notes in your class!! Thanks for a great post.

-BleuGhill-