Multi Tone Bucktails

[smoothlures]

Been fooling with these for the last few days. Wanted to share what you can do with a paint brush and 2 jars of powder paint. A quick tip, don't try to paint while holding the jig over the candle. Mine started melting, LOL.

Here's one of my favorite colors, 1/4 oz. #1/0 hook, pink over white with silver krystal flash. I'm starting to really like this jighead. I'm using them for saltwater except the 1/8th oz.



What do y'all think?

[JUNGLEJIMJIGS]

Looks like a killer bait,very nice.

[PawPaw Gene]

I like that. How do you do it? Do you heat and apply the white and then reheat and dust on the pink? I can see it now, more jigs to tie.

"gene"

[smoothlures]

I heat it over a flame and dip it in the under color first, then take a cheap paintbrush and dust the top color. Then reheat the top part you dusted over the flame til smooth. Bake and tie.

Thanks for the comments guys. Hope to give them a test this April.

[PawPaw Gene]

Thanks for the explanation. I'll try to tie some in the favorite local colors for speckked trout.

"gene"

[smoothlures]

Gonna toss some at the trout myself. Gonna do a few for flounder, too.

[LedHed]

Smoothlures

A variable temp heat gun will really help out doing multi colors.

Some of these jigs, in the pic, have up to 5 colors on them.


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[smoothlures]

Those do look good. I do need a heat gun, if I take too long putting on the second color I have to hold it over the flame for a good while for it to heat up and go smooth again.

[LedHed]

Thnx SL
Don't undercoat (paint gets too thick). With the gun you can see the applied coat start to glisten - depends on how high your temp setting is (I keep it around 350 F) and how close you hold the jig to the heat source - that is when you want to get it out of the heat and add your next color. I think cadman has a tutorial for applying multiple colors.

The technique is easier to do with larger jigs – especially with saltwater. However, you can do ultra-lite jigs also. I like the 1/32 chub jig – excellent swim jig or bottom hugger.

Be careful - the painting might interfere with your tying.....

[smoothlures]

I'll give it a shot. I just did up some pearl/black and chartreuse/white jigs to try out. I'm liking them better than just 1 solid color when I have so much area to work with on 1/4 and 1/2 oz saltwater jigs.