Badger hair jig

Here is a picture of a badger hair jig. This was a favorite yellow perch jig in the mid-west. The name in my area of the mid-west was GAY GORDON. It was named by Dr. Phillip Pugh.
He was a well known Surgeon in the Sioux City, Iowa area and fished the Iowa great lakes area. This was first tied by C.J. " Cap " Kennedy in Arnolds Park , Iowa in the early 1950's.
This has been a real cracker jack pattern. It is tied with a full amount of white, 2/3 of the amount of red as white and 1/3 as much green as red. We never painted the head. It has done well for me.

Several of you wanted ot see a badger hair jig so please enjoy. It is my opinion that it will work as well with kip tail as it works in Badger.

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reminds me of a xmas tree jig.... Nice work.. what style head is that , cant tell if it has a collar

Thanks Crappiehappy : I should have added that it is tied on a 1/24 oz head with a # 8 sickle. That is a custom mold that I built back in the 1980's. If you have read any of my past post on molds I mentioned this one. I have another mold that will pour two jigs same weight 1/24 oz. but with a #6 and a #4 hook. One of the reasons that I like this head is that is very balanced. It hangs stright in the water. I tie all the line to the jig with a loop knot ( see Ship's tutoral on knots http://www.crappie.com/crappie/main-...beginners.html ) you don't have to worry about how it hangs it is straight. Notice that the majority of the weight is forward to the nose of the jig. My mentor in mold making taught me a trick to get a jig to balance. Not hard but you have to have a good eye for perportion. As far as having a collar it doesn't.

Redman

I like it. Its straight forward, "eat me", no frills. Never fished Kip, much less badger. What's the action like, Red?

Jig looks good Redman, nice job!

Skip

Its action is fast best to fish it in the fall during the feeding frenzy of the bait balls and the fish are aggresive. Badger hair is fine and when tying best to use a A thread and get it as tight as possible with out breaking. I use a under coat of head cement let it dry before I do the final wrap and then coat again.

How are things on the Pearl?? Hope that they didn't kill all the fish but the pictures looked really bad.

Redman

Redman,
I like that hair, it looks soft and shimmery. The head, well, that one, is also a really good job. Is that one of the pressed ones you've told me about? Excellent looking quality, wanna part with some of those heads?

Wonderful pattern my friend. That will certainly fill your cooler. I love the loop knot for jigs. They will stay horizontal.

Nice jig Redman. Thumbs Up

As usual, nice jig. Love the head, different than usual. Christmas jig came to mind at first sight.

Thanks guys . I really like these forums that have input from all over the country. Everyone keeps talking about a Christmas jig. These pattern have been tied in different parts of the country at different times with different names. This pattern to me will always be the Gay Gordon but you can call it what you want.

It would be interesting to find out when a pattern like this was first tied. My idea would be that it is a old Streamer pattern that was tie in the late 1800's. Kicked around and finally got morphed in to a jig pattern in different parts of the country around the 1950's when jig fishing first became popular. I am sure that there are numerous people that will claim they were the first to tie it BUT they were the first to tie it in there area. The historic information add to this jig is what was handed down to me in the mid-west in a time when I knew and talk to these gentleman.

Can anyone tell me any history on the Christmas jig from there area??? Hopefully these internet forums will be a historical archive to some of the information of the past. Guess what I am trying to say is that Old Geezers like me better start putting down some of this information before our brains turn to mush and we forget every thing.

Redman

From a previous post of mine called "A bit of history" just a little while back, we've been adapting flies to jigs for about a hundred and fifty years. I'm sure most every pattern has been tried in the past, but it still gives us a thrill to tie a "new" pattern. Color combo's that work are bound to be repeated, and that one is a sure winner.

Nice tie!!!!!!!! Badger is kinda like squirrel tail, SLIPPERY when tying in LOL But both give great action in the water