Kimp tails

What do you guys do with the curly tips on calf tails

So far I just save them incase I need it for something I dream up. I really have not worked at that at all, but I do have some really nice looking tips, but most have more than just the tip that I saved and the other is very long for Kip tails so I hold on to them. I am sure that I can come up with a good way to use them other than straightening the hair, lol! However maybe just some straightening will make it all very useful?

Skip

Just something that came to mind while reading your post; try taking some of the hair once it's cut off and rolling it between your thumb and index, thereby rotating the hair so it doesn't all lay the same way. Maybe this would counteract the curl and make the hair useful. Also, setting the hair on the jig so that the curl is up might help some. Let us know what you figure out.

Toss it.

There's that.

I would just discard the tops from the Kip tail. I have not tied lures for seven years now since I got into soft plastics. Perhaps you could use it to dust off keyboards or something.

If it's a color you need try rinsing with hair conditioner & blow dry

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Originally Posted by shipahoy41

I would just discard the tops from the Kip tail. I have not tied lures for seven years now since I got into soft plastics. Perhaps you could use it to dust off keyboards or something.

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Ship

Funny you should mention not tying for years

as I had a similar attitude until my significant other
acquired allergies, which I had to put off pouring for awhile,
so reverted back to tying

I also lead pour, soft bait pour, and now back to tying jigs

Now surprising as it may be, I save my excess,
for they can all come together for some interesting bait :)

for example ever consider a simple Hackle tying
in back of a jig head that simulates legs w/a soft bait trailer?
made a difference on those frustrating no bite days

billygee :rolleyes:

for example ever consider a simple Hackle tying
in back of a jig head that simulates legs w/a soft bait trailer?
made a difference on those frustrating no bite days


I'd be interested in seeing of which you speak. Sounds different.

Take those curls of kip, between two separate cuts, and face them towards one another. Then tie them laterally to your hook's shank.

I tie jigs for wintertime smallmouth bass. In their environment, they don't seem, to me, to care much about fiber position or its movement. Simply, does it look like something to eat. Crappie just might as well.