Quick question on using squirrel tail for jigs.
When tying it, should i be pulling it tight to make it splay out some or just let it lay flat.
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Quick question on using squirrel tail for jigs.
When tying it, should i be pulling it tight to make it splay out some or just let it lay flat.
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I would say just like that. Them look good
those look and should be killer. Top one may fall a little slower due to be puffed out.
Did they catch fish yet?
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I been experimenting with weedless ideas.
Not sure its worth it but here are a few.
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Looks Great love Squrriel tail jigs..Espically 3/ 32 and 1/8 oz
Why? Because no one makes them and fish crappie attack them like they have never seen Them Before..
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Squirrel tails drying..Ready to tie up...Quote:
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You drying them out between screens?Quote:
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would love to get me a couple squirrel tails my self...
OK, I have a question, How do you preserve the tails. by that I mean do you skin the tails, or just cut them off and keep salt on the cut portion. I really don't know, but would like to learn. Thanks. Oh yea, these would be for fly/ jig tying...
I would think the same way as I read for doing my own buck tails. Cut them open scrap, clean out any meat, then rub with borax soap. Keep the soap in them for a few months. Then transfer to the open air. Some friends shot some does and gave me the tails, some of the softest hair jigs I have made.
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PS those are some really nice ties.
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I like the jigs also, maybe not so much flash, but hey, if it works that's great...If mine don't with a couple of strands of the flash, I can always add more...
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Final ones
Added a little flash
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looks great
If you cut a slit about halfway down tail peel back skin about a inch,(cut tail off squirrel at thickest part of base) you can grab tail real tight and pull and pull out tailbone without leaving anything behind.. have done a few hundred this way then just work some salt down into tail or split rest of the way open and pin to a board/let dry out.
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Thank you for that lesson on skinning a squirrels tail Dean. I have eaten squirrels but they had been skinned and frozen previously. I grew up out in the High Desert out west and not many squirrels around out there...hahaha...
squirrel season is a month or so away when it gets here will get you a couple grey or fox squirrel tails and send them to you.. fox squirrels are getting harder to get as the greys have about taken over in the last 10 yrs.
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Recon I need to get me a .22 cal pellet air gun. Don't want to excite the forlks around here too much...hahaha
If you have any extra I would love to try tying squirrel tail jigs as well. Thanks
When season gets heres will see how many I can get, hunt them with custom Springer .22 air rifles and a custom.32 inline muzzleloader I had built.. its a blast with either, have RWS 48s, BSA LIGHTNINGS, BEEMAN R-9 and a few other springer air rifles plus one pre charged pnuematic .22.
I used to have a bag of squirrel tails in freezer that I was going to use but never got around to it and ended up pitching them, had probably 75 tails in a gallon baggie.
Hey dbowling, that would be awesome, Thank you...Quote:
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Cut the meat off best you can ..Dip that part in brine Water..Salt water..Let dry..Quote:
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Dip them in your favorite color of dye..
Let Dry..Where screens work good.
Then I just cut with scissors what I need..
Have some local fly shops will buy them..
Am Really getting Rich..Lol
Squirrel tails are better,thicker after a frost..In my opinion the best Tails..For Tying.I like adding to Marabou gives it a little more realistic look to the Crappie..
You can't buy marabou/Squrriel tail jigs in Store..
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Looks Great..Those dogs will hunt..Quote:
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Glad I keep referring back to most of these threads...I don't know why, but I plum over looked those instructions you gave out. Seems I pick up new things each time I go back thru things. Thank you very much. Eric.Quote:
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I do mine basically like I do when I mount ducks. I first debone and put in the freezer for a few days(kills any buggers that may be on them). After they thaw, I use a degreaser and soak them for about an hour. I then wash them in a liquid soap called "skin prep" really well. Rinse well and dry with a blow dryer. I then place in a container and add borax and work the skin over and make sure it gets down inside the tail. Let the hide dry and blow dry it again to get all the borax out of the hair. If I'm not going to use it immediately, back in the freezer it goes till I'm ready.
Over kill, probably, but I don't won't any chance of bugs getting to my mounts or tying material.
Thank you for the response tlefire.
Good looking tyes Brett, a under used material that works very well. I like using a 1/32 oz squirrel tail with a thread neck while dock shooting and the black/silver/natural is a killer.
I’m pretty much the same getting all the meat from around the end of the tail. One thing I’ve never believed in is putting them in the freezer – I live in a cold state and bugs can survive on animals all winter long and with the wind chills we get a freezer just ain’t gonna work.
Any squirrel tails I get are washed in a mix of 20 mule team borax and Dawn foaming dish soap. I brush against the hair to get the soap deep and rinse well! I use a comb and brush the hair out to the side and put them in borax to dry.
Clean materials are so much nicer to tie with!!! And I agree I don’t want any bugs to infest my materials, and even after I stuff goes through my cleaning it still goes in a quarantine box!!
I leave the bone in as I’ve had too many fall apart when I dyed them!!
Same procedure I use for deer tails, except I remove the bone. And yes wash them VERY GOOD.Quote:
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So once cleaned and dried, how do you store them?
any bugs that are on a animal in super cold weather survive because of the animals body heat, once the animals dies the bugs freeze to death or leave the cold body, they usually cant produce their own antifreeze or body heat.
If you've rabbit hunted a lot and carried rabbits in your hand after shooting them as soon as they start to cool down the fleas will abandon them same with squirrels.
[QUOTE=Jamesdean;3861985]So once cleaned and dried, how do you store
Freezer.....sent you a pm.
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So, its just tail and thread?Quote:
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I do a lot of squirrel tail jigs. I get most of my tails from squirrels that have been hit on the road. Yeah I get lots of strange looks from folks. Oh well. I do freeze them them was very well. Other than that I just let em dry, no cuttingn or scraping involved.. make great bream jigs too.
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