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I caught a nice mess of crappie several nights ago, but was disappointed that tube jigs were out doing my hand tied jigs. I decided to fight fire with fire and make some that looked like the tubes that were working the best.
For grins, I’ve made a couple of hybrid jigs from a disassembled skirt. Heading out tonight to give them a try...
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Them look great! They will get er done !
Very interesting....let us know how they work.
You do some nice work
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I've stopped using plastics all together since I started tying my own and catching crappie on them.
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Would love to hear your results for sure! Jigs look fine. Also I have some jigs I used years ago that have a short elastic kind of material like silicone. I will take a picture of one and post later of it, but the thing is really short and has a Chrome head, maybe an inch long? Was killer so maybe I need to go back and try that and make a few using my Marabou tips I have been saving for years, lol!
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Them are kool, I do the same thing, copy the plastic colors.
No real comparison results yet... fish didn’t want anything to do with jigs the other night, not even the tube jig that worked so well just a few nights before - scratch head
Your jigs look great, they will work. I only use hand ties now. I tip with nibbles. I don't feel like I missed a beat.
Hey stuff happens especially with crappie! When they turn off on ya, they turn off it seems! Well the other thing is this time of year they could have moved on too!Quote:
Originally Posted by CrappieDreamer
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They should work quite well with the rubber tails.
I have been using rubber tails for some time now and they are deadly as a finesse tool both during the soft and hard water season.
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/jig-t...95-kiss-lures/
I am in the process of crafting some Heavy KISS Bugs (1/2-3/8 once)for fishing crappies in 20 to 35 FOW this fall.
I didn’t have any orders to fill tonight so I decided to make a few more colors. 1/32 and 1/24 #6 hooks...
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Okay guys I spoke about the little jigs I have that have the short tails of an elastic type material? Well I found my pictures of them and will post them on here. I had to find them for another post so decided to also put them here so you guys can see what I mean. These jigs were made by Blue Fox years ago and have not made them in a long time now. I still have a bunch and will sure give them a workout come spring! These are 1/32 and 1/16 with both shown here. You can see how small they are with the 1/16 Oz jig head with #4 Sickle in picture to show size.
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Many years ago on the Hula Popper I have seen that material also on some of the other crank baits many years ago no I do not know what it is I believe on some of my old stuff there may be some of that crinkly stuff on some of the old crank baits I do have no I am not good to chop up my crank baits to make some jigs.:biggrinQuote:
Originally Posted by skiptomylu
I like how the people on this forum think out of the box. I remember making imitation tube type baits by threading rubber strands through a jelly body.
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