Tied up some more minnow imatators...Attachment 478979
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Tied up some more minnow imatators...Attachment 478979
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Beautiful color combinations Eric. I really like the middle one in the bottom row. Thanks for sharing
I really like those Eric. Guess I need to get some material and try making them huh. Awesome job.
They look great
Thank DSJ and Dave. I greatly appreciate the kind words.
Kind of remind me of the old Doll Flies from the 60's. They were made with polar bear hair. Caught a lot of fish
I guess it may be regional but the doll flies here in Georgia back then had feathers instead of hair. A chartreuse Betts doll fly caught a ton of fish for me especially white bass on their spring runsQuote:
Originally Posted by ksnouf
Yeh a lot were and are made with feathers...but the original Thomson Doll fly was made with polar bear fur. I remember using them when I was a kid. Here is some research:Quote:
Originally Posted by RJR
Thompson's lasting legacy will no doubt be the Doll Fly, which was so popular that before long any lead and hair jigs were called Doll Flies, whether they were made by Thompson or not. Interestingly, Thompson Doll Flies were made with Polar Bear hair, and apparently Elmer had pretty nearly cornered the market on their skins:.
http://archive.knoxnews.com/sports/hodge-lure-of-doll-fly-thompsons-bread-butter-ep-411317268-359838611.html/
Thomas parlayed his Doll Fly into a company that, at one time, was believed to make more artificial baits a day than any other bait manufacturer in the world. Unless you fished by yourself with only hooks and a worm, you knew what the Doll Fly was.
And it wasn't even a fly.
Thompson's "flies" were jigs made with a hook, alloy head and polar bear hair . . . real polar bear hair.
In a Charlotte Observer story from March 17, 1963, Thompson told the writer he had nearly cornered the market on polar bear skins.
"If I couldn't buy another polar bear hide for four or five years it wouldn't halt my production one single lure," he told the paper.
Thompson Fishing Tackle Co. had a plant in Knoxville and a plant in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The company made other baits - the Top Secret, the Doll Fish, etc. - but none caught on like the Doll Fly.
In fact, it caught on so well that the name Doll Fly fell into common usage like Xerox and Coke. Although there was only one real Doll Fly, everybody who caught a crappie or bass on a little jig was catching them on "doll flies."
Before Thompson turned his flies into "bread and butter," as News Sentinel outdoors writer Chambliss Pierce wrote in 1958, similar jigs had been called Pee Wee, Tennessee Jig, Hadacol, Jean's Fly, No Alibi and probably a bunch of other stuff.
After Thompson got going, Hadacol and Pee Wee were no more. Everything was a Doll Fly.
To this day I have dozens of doll flies in my crappie box and not a single one of them is a Doll Fly.
That's the kind of impact Elmer Thompson had on fishing.
Thank you for the info Ksnouf
Looking good!! That lower right would be flat out deadly round my parts.
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We would use feathers for warm water fishin and hair in our colder water. I'm not sure why, just glad that dad took the time to teach me about fishing.:fish
I have a bit of everything. From plastics, to hand ties including hair jigs, feather jigs, and rubber leg tailed jigs. Found a thread on even tying up a wool and satin jig I plan on doing up. Got the wool, just need to go by the fabric shop and get a bit of satin. Quite the story behind Mr. Red Durham, the inventor of this jig.Quote:
Originally Posted by GrumpyLoomis
Beautiful!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamesdean
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