What are the most popular used body materials for making crappie jigs. Feathers,craft fur,rabbit zonkers,fox,or what? Would appreciate any and all ideas
what and where to buy them. Just trying to learn. Thanks Gary
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What are the most popular used body materials for making crappie jigs. Feathers,craft fur,rabbit zonkers,fox,or what? Would appreciate any and all ideas
what and where to buy them. Just trying to learn. Thanks Gary
Chenille A lot of the tiers here buy from one of the many suppliers listed in the Sticky at the start of this forum. The new Age and sparkling chenille are the ones I use most of the time but there are other materials that can be used. Learn to wrap the chenille and the rest of the material will be a piece of cake.
Redman
Welcome to the board and site!
Yes read all the stick post at the top of this board, that is the place for a new guy to learn where to start. It will save you and us a lot of time answering questions we have talked to death.
OK Thanks
Never quit using your own imagination though. I tie with almost anything I get dirt cheap or on sale somewhere. I have learned from other guys about using materials that I never thought of.
When trying something completely new tie only a few. Let the fish be the ultimate judge. No matter how pretty it looks if it don't catch fish it is not of use to me. If it catches fish it don't matter how ugly it is.
For example I guy I used to ice fish with started tying tiny little jig with balloon remnants on them. Probably one of the first guys to use plastics under the ice.
They devastated the fish here in Ohio. His jigs had almost nothing on them except strips of the cut balloon mounted on 1/100 or 1/120 oz jigs.
I would have never thought of this. He has long since passed. But every now and then I see an article about ice fishing and they hail it as if they invented it. I kinda smile to myself and wonder if Ol Barry is reading the same stuff up there.
Very good food for thought. Thanks Gary
you will be warned only once, if you hang around this group ....there will be no backing up...you will become addicted and there is no help for you after that. Welcome aboard from a junkie that did not heed the warning !
Very great words pPearch. Also very true and inspirational.
My thing is… if you've ever been downright determined to catch fish and Cldnt afford custom chenilles, jig heads etc etc. Its just eye candy. YOU have tons of options to make what'll work as good if not BETTER.
Quote:
Originally Posted by sticksteer
As said above.
While you can.... "Run to the hills"
Bobo
I appreciate all the replies and I have been doing alot of research studing and reading about making my own jigs. I am getting all my supplies ready to start tying.I hope to make
good quality jigs that look good, hold up, and most of all attract and catch fish.Thanks Gary
Well just join in and get ready to break your bank account, not kidding here. I know it looks like oh I can save money making my own jigs! That is a bunch of hooey it is not going to be like that. ALso you can't tie enough to sell to pay for this hobby, I guarantee that! Soon enough you will look around you and say where did all this crap come from, LOL! It's a certainty!
So welcome and you know the old saying misery loves company? Well we do also enjoy company in this as we smile quietly behind out computer screens.
Skip
I just bought more rabbit yesterday and I certainly didn't need it lol :)
I sit here with a big grin on my face. After 40 years plus of tying and accumulating I still keep buying new colors, and material that I can not live with out. It's alot like eating potato chip no one can eat just one. No one can just make one order or one batch of jigs. You just keep making and buying and buying and making. I don't have any idea how many boxes of jigs or how much material I have. I do know that I have over 10,000 hooks on hand and I will never ever use that many in my life time. I just can't stop. It is a addiction for sure.
Redman
This week alone, I received two different orders of different powder paints, an order of tying material, and a separate order of tying tools and threads. Like they said. You can never use it all but you still keep buying. Welcome to the club.
Bobo