little jigs and kip..HELP!!!!!
I am trying to tie up some 1/100 oz jigs with different colored kip tail and the dern stuff keeps pulling off the hook. I know Illigiller can tie these things well and I know some more of you guys have some good looking pics of small jigs with kip....so.....how in the sam hill are you getting the stuff to stay put on the hook. I am putting alot of pressure on the thread...enough to break it on a regular basis( cuss cuss and cuss some more). The only way I have been having any luck at all is putting HAN on the hook first and then tying the jig but then my kip is getting all stuck together and has no flare on the tail end. I have tried roughing up the hook shaft with a small file and it STILL slides off. The little trash bucket under my vise is slowly filling up with kip and different colors of thread. There has got to be a secret to this that I don't know about.....so hep a fellar out ya'll....teh me de secret to dis bitty puzzel afore I goes out my mind...............brim
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