New Tail Material

I have been playing this morning. I found as I was organizing my jig tying material a couple of Silver Fox Mask. I bought these years ago for a trout fly that I made. They got lost in the shuffle. Pulled them out and thought that they would make a good crappie jig. Think I am right!! The hair is slick and used hesd cement to bind it to the thread wrap. We will see how good it is after a few big slabs hit it.

Found some Badger hair and will be posting a few jigs that I have in mind for that material.

Enjoy

Redman

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Redman, that is one great lookin blue/white combo. That would work well around here.

Looks good. I bet that would also look good with a blue head and body. I have a customer that has me tie a bunch of kip dial jigs, some of you may remember me griping about having so many to do as he had me do 180 and as soon as he got them he had me do another 180. Anyway one of them I did with a Sapphire Blue head with white tail and he said that he just killed the crappie on them. I also think it will catch them just like you have it, but thought i would give you and idea to try.

Good job,

Skip

Nice looking jig.Thumbs Up
I have used arctic fox hair and liked working with it. The Badger hair I have I try to save for flies.

I'm liking that look. Well done.

Nice jig.

Smoking man, that hair looks soft. I have some kip tails and thought about hare, but it's a bit "touchy". But THAT JIG looks awesome, the softer hair will have more of a marabou quality. I really like that jig!!!!!!!!!! I foresee some slab pics in your future. NICE

Nice redman! That will dude will smoke 'em!

Is there much underhair that you have to comb out? Or do you just cut it off and tye? Im more use to cutting a bunch of hair off a hide and then combing the underhair out so that it doesn't bulk up much.

Thank you everyone for your kind komments on the jig. It is much appreciated and know that you think that I am doing something right.

MuskyGary as to the question of underhair. This was about a fourth inch long by a 1/16 inch wide piece cut off the mask. This hair was very dense I did pull off a very few long hairs. I trimmed it to length made three tight wraps of A thread applied a coat of head cement made 6 or 8 more wraps of A and then cemented it again. Waited for it to get tacky and then tied in the chenille. I combed nothing and it was slick to work with.

Hope that this makes sense.

Redman

I've always wanted to try fox bc my buddy speaks so highly of it. You just gave Me another reason to give it a go. That's an accident waiting to happen for many fish in the future.