Got my hands on a few ax heads finally. What do I do with them you may ask? Tie some gray ghost of course. 😊
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Got my hands on a few ax heads finally. What do I do with them you may ask? Tie some gray ghost of course. 😊
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Handsome jig!
That's a good looking jig... Is the idea behind that head shape to cut thru the water faster? I'm assuming they will always be cast?
Supposed to have the action of a darter head
Very nice tie. I always have some in my box.
Looks like a Gray Ghost! Nice tie!
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nice jig right there ....
Nice!
Nice looking jig - got a pic showing the head better??
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Originally Posted by Fatman
20watt, what sort of hair if any is tied in that jig with the hackle?
Excellent, my favorite jig.
It's just hackle, shad gray I believe with charcoal chenille and smoke powder paint. I tied in a tip and stripped the rest off the quill and tied it back inQuote:
Originally Posted by barefoot
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Look up Skips tutorial on using V's to add to the bulk of a jig. Works very well and changed the way I tie.
Where can the axe heads be purchased?
Good work on this jig :ThumbsUp
Very nice tie. I like the type of head you used very interesting.
After looking high and low on the Internet I finally found some at the honey hole in west monroe. The are made by Homer Humphrey under the crappue getter label. From what I understand he must have some kind of patent on the design. I'm not 100 % certain on that though, skip probably knows more about that than I do. Homer has a Web page but I couldn't find an option to purchase the heads straight from him there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Len
All I know about the head is the guy that use to tie the Gray Ghost and made it famous lived on Lake Fork, forget his name for the moment. I do not know if he poured his own or bought them from the guy you got yours from. I have a hard time believing there is a patent on that head and even if there was/is a patent only last so long. A Trademark like Blake ore has has no end! Not sure how long he tied that jig, but the guy on stickmarsh sold tons of them for a long time!
Dont know if there is legal questions or not for sure, but I suspect not and its a matter of having a mold which no one seems to have. Don't know if it only come with a #8 hook like the famous one or not, but that is what they use to sell before the guy passed away.
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the ones homer sells doesn't look quite the same as the old Bob young head, I'm just looking at photos though. the Bob young head looked to be heavier for the size, and the humphrey's head looks more concave up front and possibly shorter in the nose. I saw some very good pics the other day of the Young head and can't remember where I was on the net when I found it but the top and bottom edge of the head didn't look like it tapered down toward the front much if any, the other two versions I have seen pics of do taper like this. I'm gonna make one or two one cavity molds for a head like Bob Youngs when I get the chance by pressing a blank steel copy of the head I want between two pieces of soft aluminum aligned with brass pins, the trick is to make the blank as perfectly symmetrical as you can, gonna have to figure out the best way to grind that bevel on the front accurately so it will track straight.
I saw one once a guy sent it to me, but I had to send it back. You have triggered my memory a little and I believe Bob's head had a angle down the top front almost like someone had a long looking head and whacked the top off down to a nose! Is that what you saw the picture of?
After looking at the pic again it's way different!
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the one I like the looks of the most doesn't appear to slant downwards going towards the nose, nore on the bottom slanting upwards towards the nose. just going by pics though leaves a lot to be desired. maybe I can search and get lucky enough to find those pics I saw the other day, I could have swore it was an old post from this site that google or yahoo listed and I clicked on it. I don't know for sure but stickmarshes jighead seams to have a little slanting to it not much though, but I'm thinking this could be a new mold after Bob Youngs death. who knows what would be the best one, you would have to try them all to say, and a persons specific method of fishing would read into it also. I'll try to look for the pics but I got a lot goin on right now though, got hit with a tornado on my farm the other day, and last nite I stepped on a sewing needle and it broke off deep in my foot. lol
Okay found a pic and it is slopped at the sides of the nose of the head. Here is a pic!
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I have some of both. They are different but pretty close. Wish someone could pour these heads, they would sell very well.
I want to try this head and I will eventually, it is designed to hang horizontally, I have done this with other shapes of jigheads by moving the hook eyelet back some. the other thing is the bevels on the nose, causing a darting motion. I don't have anything like that yet so this intrigues me. But the size 8 eagle claw hook I'm not crazy about, I tried that before and had much better luck with a sickle, on this jig a size 6 would probably work better than an 8 so you'd have enough shank to make a decent chenille body. and the cinnamon body with a blue tail, gonna have to try that one.
I am with you on that #8 regular bend hook and for me personally would have to have a #6 Sickle. I did manage to talk some of the old guys that had been fishing this jig into using a minnow head and #6 Sickle and they seemed to like it fine.Quote:
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yeah, I really like the size 6 sickle too, it really puts the fish in the boat. heck I like the size 8 sickle too but the shank is a little short for some ties.
Great looking tie. I used the gray a lot during the spring.
Doesn't look like it would take much to alter a ball head mold to make one, honestly....
Just don't really see the worth of it.
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Has been my thinking all the while. I started making these something like 4 years ago, maybe 5?? I always felt the a good minnow head would be close enough and actually a round head does fine too and I know this from reports back on fish catching.
Seems more of a novelty to me, but you know how fishermen are, when something works for them they don't want to change anything, LOL!
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