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I fish a few Florida waters every winter, St.Johns, Talquin, Okechobie etc I have a guy who ties hair jigs for me, and wanted to see what patterns you all use? after googling fresh water shrimp I got thinking that all the specks i catch are dark color to match your tea colored water, so I wanted to see what Florida Shrimp look like vs. other fresh water shrimp or if there the same? Thanks ahead of time
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These are smaller than 1/32 and I’m staying busy with the top two.
Perfect, would you call the bodies maybe a dark olive, and the tails maybe a chocolate mix?
Bodies are olive micro chenille and the tails are barred pumpkin color nymph size. Smaller than standard spinnerbait skirt, called silli legs. Probably only find em online. #8 hooks and would use a 10 if I could find a sickle hook that size.
Perfect Skeetbum, Ill pass this along to my fly guy. Thanks for being my Florida go to guy
He will be a good one, too.Quote:
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Nice work! Gills and Crappies should hammer them. :bashQuote:
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I've got( Pops Jigs making me some of them but with a Pumpkin Green jig head, he has a good variety of in-stock jigs on his site too. Thanks
I use Jim PopsJigs to tie all my jigs for vertical fishing and believe me the work. Going to be using them in Grenada in April. Fish them regularly in Talquin and Seminole
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Well my Shrimp pattern jugs came in along with a variety of hair jigs, and after hearing good reports from central Florida, me and my friend Jimmy are coming down next Sunday for a week! I'm stoked because I usually fish these waters in winter and always here how good the Fall is. Thanks Skeetbum for the pix, Jim at Pops jigs nailed the pattern. Hey Swampcabbage do you have a youtube channel? Gater something or other? I know of a guy who uses his jigs in Fl.
Looks awesome
Tom, my buddy Gator is out of South Carolina but he fishes and guides all over including, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, that is his YouTube channel you’re referring to.Quote:
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I'll be on Woodruff Sunday trying this jig out, I'll trim the tail but I think it turned out well. Hoping we can find some slabs in the pads.Attachment 474858Quote:
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Oh yeah that jig looks good. I’d definitely trim the tail but it should work good.
I believe you have it. They’ll tell you how much too long the tail is if you keep getting short strikes, that’s when I keep trimming til they take it first shot. I hope they’re doing well for you.
Skeetbum, I used it today trolling and caught a couple on it. Wish they were in the pads.
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Here’s a grass shrimp pattern I recently tied.
I’m Attachment 475437going to tie up some small jigs as well.
Those are a knockout Steve. I’m sure they’ll do the trick if the river ever comes back down. I’ve been salty waiting for them to come back out of the woods. I trim my rubber short on some of mine to get past the short strikers and pullers. My little black on black with short legs kept me busy a lot earlier this year.