Mop jigs

Couldn't fish the last couple days so I worked on tying some mop jigs since it's new to me. These have mop chenille tails and palmer chenille bodies. On some I used two colors of palmer chenille wrapping both together at one time to try and match up with the jig head colors. My smaller pill head with #4 and #6 Victory hooks. Also made a couple nickel plated heads using a #10 hot shiner chenille for the tail after burning the tails to a point. Attachment 446238Attachment 446239Attachment 446240Attachment 446241

Some beautiful work.

Very nice Jim. They all look good.

Wow. Beautiful. And that mop material hold slabsauce like crazy. I really like them.

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I'm waiting for it to warm up a little before I give it a go but at least it's sunny. I have one of the mop jigs with the red eye tied on one and a bottle of slab sauce in the bag. Will be the first jig I try. I hope I can find some.

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Originally Posted by JUNGLEJIMJIGS

I'm waiting for it to warm up a little before I give it a go but at least it's sunny. I have one of the mop jigs with the red eye tied on one and a bottle of slab sauce in the bag. Will be the first jig I try. I hope I can find some.

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I use a small cup or can that I mount off the side of my boat so Slabsauce don't drip on my boat. But mop jigs don't really drip. And you can just see the color change in the mop as it soaks up the sauce. Additionally, with a soaked mop, your casts are longer. The slabsauce oils the way so the jig slides right through the air! lol j/k, but it does make the jig heavier so it does go further. And since it's an oil, it sinks ever so slightly slower down the water column. just sayin'

LOL, here's my slabsauce side of boat dunking setup fyi:

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Yep, I eat too many Vienna sausages but those cans work well for slab sauce. Just gotta keep slab sauce out the sausage can I have open today:Rofl

Very nice

Those look killer:ThumbsUp

Awesomeness

Those look great. Look like they will catch em.

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Mighty fine work on those jigs!

WOW! Very sweet Jigs!

I was just thinking how mop jigs would probably be good for panfish. I know the ends are burnt to prevent the chenille from unraveling. Would it be possible to instead double it over and tie down the end instead? I haven't actually had my hands on this particular material.

I just use a dot of super glue and roll the end to a small taper.

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Originally Posted by firstout

I was just thinking how mop jigs would probably be good for panfish. I know the ends are burnt to prevent the chenille from unraveling. Would it be possible to instead double it over and tie down the end instead? I haven't actually had my hands on this particular material.

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This particular mop chenille doesn't unravel. It's really fat and dense so it would be pretty bulky tied in like that. You could do that with other types of small chenille though. There's a fly pattern with a loop of chenille at the tail called the green weenie that is supposed to imitate an inchworm.