what is your favorite material on the tail on your jigs
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what is your favorite material on the tail on your jigs
Marabou
1 Marabou
2 Hackle
3 Kip or rubber skirt material tied for 3rd place
Depends on wave motion if slip floating and current if I am drop shotting.
Hackle..
Marabou is a distant second.
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Originally Posted by Jig Man
Marabou
Hackle palmered
Hackle
I prefer kip tail so far
Can't forget the squirrel tail for tails. It really does depend on the jig being tied but overall I use more marabou than anything.
I will say I like the way marabou looks, better,but hackle catches more for me.
Okay, can someone explain the advantages of a hackle tail jig? I have only tied maybe two ever, and just don't like how they look... BUT, I honestly have no idea how they fish.
Most often, I use marabou. Sometimes some bucktail or kiptail. Sometimes rabbit. It depends on what look I'm going for, and what species I'm tying for. I reaaally like rabbit for my short and chunky bluegill jigs, but for ice jigs, I prefer marabou because it's slimmer.
hackle
marabou
SQUIRREL TAIL! (I use hackle and bou the most but i do love my squirrels)
I see a lot of you guys mention hackle is your favorite tying material what type of Hackel are you using.
Bob take a deep breath turn around and head back to the plastic side. Sorry guys I turn my back just for a second and ole Snake got off his chain. Bad Snake bad lolQuote:
Originally Posted by snake River
For tails I use the cheapest hackle I can find with lots of tips. I have a bunch that is really short and basically all tips as far as usable material and they work great.
Its mostly about the color . But myself I like hackle , buck tail , marabou , kip , squirrel , synthetics in that order for crappie . The order changes for location and species . When I was a kid I did a lot of damage to pond crappie with a split shot run up to a gold abberdeen hook and a triangle piece of yellow rag as a tag on the hook.
I like marabou best, but hackle has it's place.
mine is hackle right now..I am wanting to experiment with artic fox...
I love arctic fox, it just has SO much movement it tends to wrap around itself and the hook. Caught a good number of fish on an arctic fox clouser last summer.Quote:
Originally Posted by PBUG2009
Marabou,bucktail,squirrel and hackle in that order.
Quivira Hope that Skip joins in on this one as he is the Master of the hackle tail jig. I tie them not my strong suit but they have good action and do last a good long time. Like them on my bream jigs.
As far as what I use as tail material on my crappie jigs. On Caddo lake and I think that this is true for most lakes in North east Texas and North West Louisiana, I have found that in the warm weather months Marabou is the best material. In the cold months I found that kip tail is the best. Why, Marabou has a better action when the fish are more active and kip has a slower action when they are less active and you need to slow things down. Right now I am using kip tail and fishing really slow. I found out it pays off, a trick a old boy showed me here on the lake. You will find out that it will very from state to state and area to area. Just my my humble opinion. Keep remembering that if works for you keep doing it and if it aint broke don't fix it.
Redman
I use a wide variety guys. We use the marabou hair hackle. I carry assortment when I go fishing it varies from time to time depending on what the fish are feeding on on what type jig they will strike and is red man has indicated there are warm water cooler water that will cause them to strike the different materials. Also keep in mind that whatever they feed on. I tried to match material to that type of bait marabou has a movement like no other when I was a teenager. I tied up marabou and made streamers which were a killer on crappie White in yellow and red were the combination colors . I tied up a bunch of black hackle jigs for my neighbor. He did really well with them and they always called them black ant's . They were not as long as what you guys usually tire. These are a little bit shorter. Yes I matched them up to 1/32 one 16th ounce and we were using about a half inch or so for the tail hackle is always been a deadly material to use like red man said skip is probably the number one knowledgeable person for hackle. We do use a different type of Hackel , then Norm we use one similar to what you would use on a streamer. You might say that the first saddle awful roosters. I normally buy white by the pound in I do my own custom dying . My favorite time material is marabou and hair it is not hackle surprised you.
You have to go with what the fish tell you too. I may thread some Hackle through a Jilly Jelly body and see what it looks and fishes like.
Marabou with some crystal flash, in a complementary color, of course.
(For longlining)
I like to use both marabou and hackle jigs. With longlining a hackle jig has more movement while moving than a marabou jig so hackle seems to work most of the time but, on my last two fishing trips the fish didn't want much movement and the marabou jigs out caught the hackle. When you think you have the fish figured out they change. I start pulling with a few of each tied on the lines and it doesn't take long for the crappie to tell you the one they want "for that day".
If I'm jigging or fishing a jig under a float it's marabou or a hair jig I use.
hackle, marabou, kip, squirrel and I tried some of the artic fox (got a real SMALL piece in a material swap box on FAOL).
Zac, Picture a dry fly with the wrapped hackle and when fished the barbules are flicking around like little legs, kind of the same thing with a hackle tail on a jig, as you pull it towards you it flattens but let it start sinking and all the hairs are undulating like little legs.
Fatman
i started out using bucktail and squirrel now i almost always tye with hackle
I used two years ago take most of feathers or marabou off my jigs. So I would only have a 1/4" left on the jig it seems like I can't more fish that way . I believe that you are right stomp they did not want any or no action in the feathers. That's why a quarter of an inch was little or no movement just enough to get them to strike. You might say like a little tail wiggling Walsall I found out there in the 60s we were using stiff nylon or a tale which did not have no action at all, but it was deadly because I was you soon marabou beside a other guy when I was a kid and not catching anything. The nylon jigs were knocking them dead. You might keep that in mind when you are tying up a bunch of jigs to get some nylon clear and tying up on like a little brush.Quote:
Originally Posted by STUMP HUNTER
Hey Snake then what would be wrong with using say 20lb. test big game line for a tail. Now that is a interesting idea. Maybe a silver tinsel body and a Big game tail, wouldn't take much to do a jig like that might have to tie a few and report back. New pattern Snake's Killer. This maybe a good way to use some of that old line that I have laying around.
Redman
I've used the braided lines for tails tie a knot in one end hit it with a lighter to seal it into a hard knot. Then slide a bead on tie it in . does pretty dang good and you are able to change bead color out to match the body style. You can use an small blades too. without swivels . Dosen't seem to stop them from biting .