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A little time at the vise tonight. It's the same jig, UV light and white light....1/32 Oz plain bullhead jig, FL. Chartreuse body hair under the silicone legs in the tail, UV peach established body, FL. Orange flat waxed thread...Attachment 426789Attachment 426790
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Jig looks good. Pretty cool seeing UV and white light on it.
Great looking ties. They really pop
Nice work Eric!
Very nice my friend.
With the storms coming through here like cars on the Los Angeles Freeway lately, I been pretty well stuck inside for a couple weeks. Been watching a lot of tying videos in that time. Yesterday I ventured out between torrential down pours, and checked on my fishing holes as they are fed by creeks and rivers...what a mess. Lakes are well above flood stage and so much debris, making it impossible to wet a line. It would be on top of the floating limbs, logs, grass and trash. Trapped by the high water at bridges, that were at least 8' above the water...No rain projected for the next week, so hopefully it will have a chance to recede some and clear up some.
Picks of more things coming, like...
floats to detect an up bite, more jigs and a few more ties. However my better half is home for a few days, and it's Spring time...Can you say Honey doooo list...so all my stuff goes on hold...
I wanted to thank those that commented on my jig. I apologize for getting started and going a different direction this morning. Should have stayed on track about the tie.
Rained most of the day yesterday and into the night. Dodged rain storms all day building a swing frame for the MIL's Mother's day gift. I feel your pain. I wanted to go chase some shell Crackers this morning.
Looked at the weather channel today as it was a real nice day here. Thankfully NO RAIN in the forecast here till Friday night...Maybe, just maybe some of that mess will be gone. I will probably go check on it Tuesday or Wednesday.
I had a few minutes today, after some shopping and yard work, I made a fine booking. Something I've been thinking of doing for some time. Picked up a pack of 3/8-inch craft dowels, a small pack of sewing needles, and I had the needle nose pliers, UV glue and light.
It is really simple really. I measured the dowel and used an x-acto knife to cut, and clean the end. Then took the regular bodkin and started the hole for the needle, as close to center as you can. Then grip the needle with the pliers and push the eye end into the dowel. I went about ¹/4 inch, maybe a bit more. Then secure it in place with the UV glue all around the needle where it enters the dowel. Then set the glue with the UV light.
It took all of about 5 minutes start to finish, and I now have a small bodkin for finer work, that is a bit awkward with the larger one...
Hope this might help some out.Attachment 426901Attachment 426902
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