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I am still playing with this stuff and just tied another copper one to try. So please compare the two below and tell me which one you like best.
Skip
You have seen this one...
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b4...s/DSC05097.jpg
But not this one and head size is big, but same color so???
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b4...s/DSC05138.jpg
First one.
The first one also. Nice jig.
First one.
The first one skip.
First one
Orange for sure.
I conker,1 st one.
Skip, what about keeping the tail orange and throwing maybe some blue krystal flash in the tail? Or some color that isn't copper/orange...
Maybe, I am just in the seeing thinking stage. One thing I know for sure is everyone picked the FL Orange, but I know in stained water in the spring Hot Orange is super good so I may have to have a fish off sometime to see what catch's more fish. Human eye appeal is clear and even I like it better, but I am not sold that the fish thing the same way. A few years back I used Hot Orange a lot one spring and I just thumped them good on that.
I have just about ever color of Krystal Flash there is and several other brands to see what may be best. I even thought about Black Flash, one strip down each side.
I have some more tail colors to try too I think and just need to hold it up to each color I have and see what shows up.
Skip
Skip, that orange, in the spring as you said, is a catcher as it imitates the color of crawfish.
Go with what you like that can get the fish to hit.
1perchjerker
Really like both of them colors but favor the 1st jig a little more.
I might be an oddball, but I like the second one best, the color of the tail is great. I would think a brighter orange head to go with the tail and body of the second jig would be killer.
The first one looks great but I also like Scotts thinking on it.
I was tying a FL Red head/ Black and Fl Yellow Chenille (the one everyone things is Black and Green) wit the Hot Orange tail in marabou then, but the crappie were just hammering it. I know I did like that.
Not exactly this jig since I was using a Roadrunner back the, but these colors was the deal and would again in stained water for sure! Oh and it was not a 1/64 that this jig is it was a 1/32.
http://thumpitjigs.com/images/DSC00419A.jpg
Skip
First one with char or blk flash
Hi Tommy, haven't seen you in a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1perchjerker
Skip, I haven't ever been a fan of bright orange so I need to fish it in stained water to help me change my mind. I tried a bright orange headed slab daddy and caught a few, but the other colors we used that day did way better. The body and tail on the first one look real good to me. I'm gonna try something like it and will post when it's done. Both look good.
I was mostly using it when they got on the bank and was just going along with the TM really slow until I found some. I was leaving out maybe 14'-15' of line and swinging it from side to side and when I got it real close to the grass along the bank I would just kind of pull it along. I could see them come up and take it.Quote:
Originally Posted by skeetbum
Maybe it had something to do with them being so shallow and are use to seeing crawfish when in like that, I just don't know, but I did great on that jig a few years back. Funny thing is every year I have something else to try that I didn't have the year before so have not gone back to it yet, but feel sure I will especially if I find them on the bank again. Boy I can't tell you how much fun it was seeing them come up and take that RR as I pulled it over them and it being shallow enough that I could still see my jig.
I like the looks of both, but have to admit I like the Fl Orange tail better too and use that color for both body on some and tail on others. Have had some do well on the Black/FL Orange/Variant Chart. Is on my favorites page because of a guide Cliff Spindle up on Ray Roberts lake.
Skip
The first one. They both look good. Have you tryed them yet?
Chuck
No not as is, actually have not been fishing since May sometime. Now I am trying to get my boat out before they drop the lake level this weekend. My boards on my trailer are rotten after just 3 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by chuckauten
Skip
Great jigs,Skip-they both will put fillets on the platter! IS the paint powder paint and if so where can a fellow jig tier grt some?
Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by ijerkum
I don't know for sure if Crazy Angler has the Candy Orange or not, but it's Pro-Tec Candy Orange powder paint and I buy my paint mostly by the pound so but from the Mfg. Maybe who ever you usually buy from has it in the 2 Oz. bottles.
I posted a while back about the ideas I had for this thread. I'm not the fastest but I do eventually get to it. I used furnace neck hackle and various other components. Wish I had some of that good copper colored chenille that you used, but I just used what I had.The tinsel looking stuff said brown on the package, looks green to me. The hackle had 3 different colors on one feather, tan, brown, and black. I used 2 hackle feathers on the first 2 just cuz it looked better. I'll throw em on some rip rap we saw fish on today next time I go and post if I do any good. Thanx for the ideas Skip, you always keep my mind working.
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Originally Posted by skeetbum
the first two are lovely...
mind giving up the genetics?
Adam
I think you may catch some, LOL! They look good and the colors blend well.
Oh and your welcome,
Skip
Y'all know me well enough to know that I'll give up anything but my wife and my boat. Not necessarily in that order on certain days. I believe the hooks to be #4 red sickle in 1/16th oz, furnace natural neck hackle, olive monoflash, and the fuzzy one has brown glimmer chenille, with the first one having olive/rust variegated. Believe it or not the 3rd one has a mixed brown/white p/p on it. The white is very dominant and it came out much lighter than I wanted - kind of a coffee with cream color. Thanx for the interest, to me it's a compliment to be asked for a pedigree.
the olive/rust chenille? i have some just like it called deluxe i believe crazyangler calls it...
Those jigs are looking good. The top jig would be my pick but the other two are very nice too. Good work.;)