new to jigs tying

hello i just started to tying jigs. after talking to bobo which he is very huge help! order 100 jigs with sickle hook from him with paints and along chenille he thrown in package which was very nice gesture of him!!! heres jigs i had done so far. give me feedbacks or whatever i can do to improve my skills or what so. thanks! few of them are in 1/16, 1/32 and one in gold jig is brown chenille with pheasant hackle. again thanks bobo!!! :biggrin


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Look pretty good

Hey DCS, Great looking ties. I wish my first ones looked that good. Those vein heads look great especially the brown with pheasant hackle. Also welcome to CDC from Kentucky. You have begun a life long journey with some great tiers on here. Some of the best I have ever seen are at your finger tips. Ask us some questions and I am sure you will get some good answers. Keep them coming. We want to watch you grow and learn and be part of our family here! Thanks for sharing your art!!

Nice first ties, you should be able to catch a few with those.

Those are some nice looking ties, especially for some of your first ones!

Very nice jigs for your first time! Like the red thread. Makes it look like gills of a minnow or shad.

Nice job for a beginner, have seen worse! When tying with chenille try to keep it as even as you can. Just takes time and practice to get better.

thanks for kind words everyone! i am starting to like this hobby! now on to micro jigs which i want to use for ice fishing.

they look darn good! any ways i always tie my chenille in by pulling the tip off exposing the string under it. this makes a flat symmetrical body better then trying to tie the chenille under it also know as to much build up. also learn this while steel heading to half hitch from start to finish the chenille. this is cause "blue gill" will peck, peck and peck at the jig till they fall apart. if one half hitch comes lose they still have others holding it just some tips....

Where do you normally start to wrap chenille? To hook or to head?

i wrap from bend of hook to the eye of hook or head this is why the feathers end up under the chenille and tie off at the head or eye.. hope that what you asking?

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they look darn good! any ways i always tie my chenille in by pulling the tip off exposing the string under it. this makes a flat symmetrical body better then trying to tie the chenille under it also know as to much build up. also learn this while steel heading to half hitch from start to finish the chenille. this is cause "blue gill" will peck, peck and peck at the jig till they fall apart. if one half hitch comes lose they still have others holding it just some tips....

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And to add to this, I do the same and always add head cement! I add a drop to the thread before I lay the tail material down so the bluegills cannot pull the tail out. Then I always tie off the jig with 3 half hitch knots and a drop of head cement on top of the knots.


When its all tied, there is no way it is coming untied while fishing. You'll have a jig head with no tail and a body beat to heck before anything comes untied. The only way you are getting everything off to re-use the jig head is to burn it off with a lighter.

I started tying using headstrong cement, but I picked up a bottle of creative angler head cement from overstockbait on my last order and it seems to be doing just as well... Was less than 1/3 the price of the headstrong. I believe I paid $2.99 and it was a glass bottle that I'd have to say is 2-3 oz. I know I've tied about 200 jigs with it since I got it and I have not even put a dent in it. I transfer it into a .5oz squeeze bottle with a syringe top for applying it. I like it better than a bodkin/needle. The bottle is for e-cigs.

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thanks for kind words everyone! i am starting to like this hobby! now on to micro jigs which i want to use for ice fishing.

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I actually started with micro jigs this winter. Here is my big producer, it has been equally well so far this year in open water with the back-to-back cold fronts that are putting the fish in a negative mood.

1/64 head. Cut hackle for the tail with 2 pieces of flash added. Med Chenille body. This is on a #8 hook. I caught quite a few crappies on this jig through the ice!
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I have a buddy in Indiana that is keeping me busy tying them. He's using them for bluegills and crappie under a float. I keep sending him more and more and he keeps showing me pictures.

i guess our mind think alike because i make exact same color as that! i never thought of apply cement to thread before adding chenille to it. thanks!


which part of iowa your from? used to hunt a lot near clear lake city to estherville till pheasant numbers crashed but alway want to come back to the area for fishing, heard its very good.

I'm in the quad cities, on the miss river. Fishing isnt great here, not as good as some of the interior lakes... but we do get one some nice fish in the backwaters every so often.

Works for me.

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Where do you normally start to wrap chenille? To hook or to head?

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Depends. :biggrin I always finish at the head. BUT depending on the jig head size, I may start wrapping at either the head or tail. If it is a larger jig I'll start at the head and wrap to the tail and then back to head to increase the profile to match the head. I tie the chenille off as others do.

I always start at the head and end at the head. I never put glue on before I am finished except with tying rabbit strips. I never have any that come apart. Also you can not feel where I put my glue, no hard spot at all and they hold up fine. Have had more than one person tell me they caught over 300 crappie on one single jig. I believe they do just fine with a good whip finish, I never use the half hitch!

also I make my own glue and the cost is cheap and one trip to the hardware store and that buy has last me 10 years and still don't need any more yet, not even close! I am sure the stuff I use is posted in the sticky post at the top of this page!

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I always start at the head and end at the head. I never put glue on before I am finished except with tying rabbit strips. I never have any that come apart. Also you can not feel where I put my glue, no hard spot at all and they hold up fine. Have had more than one person tell me they caught over 300 crappie on one single jig. I believe they do just fine with a good whip finish, I never use the half hitch!

also I make my own glue and the cost is cheap and one trip to the hardware store and that buy has last me 10 years and still don't need any more yet, not even close! I am sure the stuff I use is posted in the sticky post at the top of this page!

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Seeing you are from texas, I think I already know the answer to this.. but have you ever dropped a micro tied jig down an ice hole and had bluegills peck at it? They'll grab that tail and keep on tugging until its gone. Your fish down there could swallow these micro jigs in a second, but not up here.. all they do is peck. I've got a bag full of marabou jigs missing the marabou from fishing around bluegills.

I've never had a crappie destroy a jig, not one I've tied nor one I've bought. Crappie are the "gummers" of the fish species, they don't grab and pull. Bluegills grab and pull.

With a standard "crappie jig" I don't think it is really an issue.. but I'm sure you already know that when you are tying a 1/100-1/64 with a #14-#8 hook there really is not a ton of room to wrap thread to secure the tails material. The extra glue helps!

Not ice. no way I would ever do that. I don't want to be that far North, LOL! However we have plenty of blue gills here and when trolling slow with my roadrunners they get constantly attacked by them. Heck yesterday afternoon I got out to fish for a little while and caught 2 of the little critters, but the hooks I am using are a bit large for many of the smaller ones. Yes they tear up stuff way more than crappie, but I fished the same jig I used the last 3 times out and still looking fine. So I have plenty of experience with blue gills and I also know if I were to speed up just a little I could avoid them all together. I am fishing 14' of water and hydrilla is so thick my sonar half the time doesn't display the right bottom depth because it thinks when the hydrilla gets really thick the bottom is some were in the grass and not really the bottom.

Here even fishing brush piles there is no way you don't run into blue gills. They have a much harder time tearing up the big crystal chenille I am using, but the tail and the thin flash I use they will tear up at some point, but the jig it self will be fine until the tail is about totally gone. Using marabou this will happen, but they never come apart unless you cut stuff off to tie again. With all the wood in this lake usually I will lose a jig before it will get worn out. I do love how easy I get back my little 1/32 Oz Roadrunners when they hang up. Usually it's close enough to the surface you can see where its hung up and pop it one time back the way it came from and it's free.

I think we can agree that bluegill are just plain annoying!

So far, I havent had any jigs come apart per say. With or without the glue, with the exception of white bass. After 40 I had a jig head with some chenille hanging off the back end. I have had plenty with the tails pulled out, but only with #12-#8 hooks. Not so much with the #8 as with the #10 and #12. A #6 hook has more than enough room to secure the materials, no need to ever worry there.

I don't ever tie any smaller than a #8 hook except for flies amd then yes some #10 and #12. Have some hooks smaller, but not excessively so since I never tie an #18 or smaller as I have no need here.
Now if I find the big gills this month I will go for them, but only got on them one time here and the smalles we caught was 3/4 pound and largest was 1 3/4 pounds, we had 42. We had been bass fishing and it was slow and then ran into these with Texas riged worms, went to get some crickets and we had a ball! And yes since I got this side scan I have been looking for some beds in water 11' or deeper.

Attachment 161015Couldn't sleep good last night so got up and tie a few at 2-3 in morning. Here's one I did.

That one will do well for you. I tie a lot using chenille much like that. I have 3 different ones all very close, but different.

That should work great! I have the same chenille. Bobo gave it to me when I was first starting tying a couple months ago.

This one is my favorite. Uses green grizz marabou and a pink 1/32 head. It looks nicer in person, the pink works great with the green in the water. (my fist is in the picture to show a size comparison for a buddy of mine who I was tying them for).

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keep practicing you are doing a good job.

Like Bob said. The jigs looks great and thanks for the kind words guys.


Bobo