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Let's See Some Creatures
Here's my latest.Bass love them,gills try to eat them.So,I figure they are good,lol.Maybe they think they are a crayfish?I don't know.1/8 oz. football head jig,orange bucktail tyed to the bend in the hook,then half the body,the rear part in Clown Chenille,then 4 strands of brown legs tied in the middle to get each side,then the rest up to the head with the Clown Chenille.It's got a 1/0 hook,so the gills try to carry it around,but can't eat it.
I have learned when you tye it this way it much easier.Once I get the legs tyed,I pull them back and put a bread wrapper tie around to hold them out of the way.No tangles with the legs that way.
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Good looking jig. I'll have to try the bread wrapper trick. Seems like the legs are always in the way when I tie gill flies. Thanks
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I could'nt believe how much easier it was,lol.
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azslabber,
Another suggestion, try tying in the legs after the buck tail and before the Chenille.
1perchjerker
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Nice looking jig!!!!!!!!!
Fatman
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Very cool Skip.That's what I wanted to see for a couple of ideas and something hard to do,lol.You gave me both.
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1/64 oz. Bug
Here's one that I just tied,1/64 with a size 8 sickle hookI'm going to trim the legs when I'm at the lake before I cut them.Maybe a 1/16 inch at a time until I get it right,lol.
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I love working with that foam for this kind of stuff. I am thinking about getting a bunch more of the little foam bodies. Lots you can do with that stuff. I have a bunch of sheets of foam and that is good to with cutters for bodies, but I think that I like the cylindrical foam better.
I bet you could use a really light weight jig head and tie some on that and it would sink really slow if at all?
Skip
Here is another one made using Tungsten body.
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...s/DSC03034.jpg
My Wasp again..
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...s/DSC02030.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...s/DSC01725.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...-6-2800001.jpg
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Good looking bugs. That wasp is great skip. :)
