Antron

I have been using a little Antron lately. I havnt had a chance to fish with it. What are it's advantages? Besides the way it looks.

skip will have alot to say i bet...i see he uses it alot on his jigs

Are you talking about Antron like for mostly fly tying or are you talking about the Crystal Antron Chenille?

If it's the chenille it has some nice sparkle in it and holds up much better than regular chenille. I have used it fro 5 years now and still do on some of my personal jigs and some guys know about it from me and they order it too. I also think it's easier to tie a nice looking jig with it.

The other like of Antron is more for flies and I do have some of that too, but not sure how you may be using it on jigs unless you want a thin body jig? There are lots of uses for Antron for flies. Thought I would come back and add that I have some dubbing that is Antron and I have some spooled Antron like thick thread. SO don't know which your talking about.

Skip

Crystal antron for crappie jigs holds up a lot better than most chenille. There's a lot of different kinds of chenille that after you fish with it one day and catch some, the next day it will be dry and crusty. Not the case with antron. Just the other day I broke the 100 fish mark on one jig, still looks good. Offers a neater tie too.

Its the Chenille im talking about....It seems its very limited in colors. Where is a good place to see some different colors.

Crystal Antron is what the chenille is called. Just has a little flash in it. Crazy Angler sells the best antron but doesn't offer pics. Here's a site to view pics. Click scroll down arrow and color should populate. If it doesn't click on the pic.

www.tackle-craft.com - Crystal Antron Chenille

You most likely don't want the large as it pretty big and most places don't even have it, but the Medium is nice for 1/16 and larger, but the small is also nice for 1/32 and smaller. It comes in 2mm, 6mm & 8mm.

Skip

Its definitely great material but it also costs over twice as much as other chenilles!

Your right RonDon it's not cheap for sure, but I still like the stuff a lot.

Skip

I like the way it looks too. I don't have many colors but the black, tan and purple get a lot of use for me.

I like this stuff alot too, and wish I had tried it long before now. the fl. green is almost a perfect match for the green char. marabou. for an all green char. jig. the cost is worth it for sure. I need to try it in black.

My Favorite is the Chartreuse, but it's closer to FL Yellow, but also have FL Green, FL Orange, FL Red (Pink), FL Blue, FL White, Black, Purple, Orange, Tan, Olive, FL Insect Green, FL Fire Orange and maybe a couple more, but not sure. One thing though the shade of some change a lot from one batch to the other, like FL Red some times is really dark and sometimes pretty light and a few more are like that too. Depends on who is dying it I think.

Skip

the only thing i dident like about the antron chenille is that the color of pink fades on white tails when i tied it in a pink and white tail
but cant realy say bout any other colors havent had many problems but havent used much of it just pink red n dun oh and chartruse lol forgot that one but i mostly use nylon chenille dont seem to be havin any trouble out of it it seems to be realy durable and looks good after 50 or 60 fish behind it