Hey Skip: Palmered and leftovers

Here you go Skip, have fun using up your hackle extras.

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...cklebugjig.jpg

This is my palmered bug, figured it couldn't hurt to try them too, can't have too many weapons in the arsenal.

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...lewingsjig.jpg

This is the fluffy part of the hackle that I snipped off and used for wings. Not too bad but the better hackle parts would make a stiffer and better wing. Simply snipped off a section, tied it in at both ends and voila.

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...eminnowjig.jpg

This one I snipped leftovers to make the tail and stripped half of one piece for a dorsal fin. Lots of uses for it all, now you have something to do with yours Skip.

Very cool!!

Yes that is why I made the post, so everyone wouldn't throw away their scraps. I make stuff out of mine all the time. heck I have saved neck hackle scraps for 4 years now, LOL! Yes I have several bags of especially Chart. You can take what is left from the tip gone and my little V's cut off and still have a piece that makes a great tail.

That bottom one kind of looks like a dancer doing some kind of spin, LOL!

Oh yeah, I save my marabou tips too.

I like them.

Skip

Nice job

you guys are getting awful fancy with your scraps.

I used to tie jigs just to catch a fish,lol.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by azslabber

I used to tie jigs just to catch a fish,lol.

---

:D So true!!

The jigs look good. Since I have only been tying a few months I didn't know you discarded anything!:) So now I know what to do with the other ends of the feathers.

If I tie something and I don't think it will catch fish I will either rip it apart or give it to someone who does. All the ones above I will fish with because they should catch fish.

Stump, you can take the scraps of every synthetic and natural materila you use including your thread and throw it in a bottle, use a pair of scisso5rs or something to chop it down to the smallest pieces oyu can and make dubbing. No reason to not save stuff unless you simply don't want to deal with it.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by fish_4_all

Stump, you can take the scraps of every synthetic and natural materila you use including your thread and throw it in a bottle, use a pair of scisso5rs or something to chop it down to the smallest pieces oyu can and make dubbing. No reason to not save stuff unless you simply don't want to deal with it.

---

That is a good tip. I don't like to throw anything away if I can help it, thanks. ;)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by fish_4_all

Stump, you can take the scraps of every synthetic and natural materila you use including your thread and throw it in a bottle, use a pair of scisso5rs or something to chop it down to the smallest pieces oyu can and make dubbing. No reason to not save stuff unless you simply don't want to deal with it.

---

I definitely save all my flash scraps for that as well as any crystal chenille I have left. Unless I have some thread or cotton from the chenille in it I just chop is into my dubbing with my cheap coffee grinder.

I got a bunch of tine or small plastic storage jars I keep right behind me and any left overs I want go right into them. Have all kinds of stuff in them. From hair to that stuff the guy in Alaska sells to all kinds of flash and I keep the different kinds in different little jars.

For what materials cost these days you gotta make use of every little bit!!!!!

Fatman

I wish my jigs tied out of first run material looked as good as yours tied with scraps. LOL Great job!