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I plan on doing a two day trout trip next week so I painted and tied up some 1/48 and 1/80 jigs on #12 VMC jig hooks which is the smallest jig hook I have found. These fish really like the little stuff. A #12 sickle hook is in the middle on the nickel for comparison. Left some without tail using thread or flash for body. Attachment 489676Attachment 489677Attachment 489678Attachment 489679
I believe I have some heads 1/100 very very small. They are good for bluegills. Also the other crappies also love them that small. you need a magnifying glass to tie them up. That nickel in the picture 1924 might be worth something.
So tiny. Cute little jigs. I bet they work good.
Jim did you coat the flash/thread body jigs? I use a UV top coat on jigs like that. Really makes them shiney and protects the material. Plus adds UV. Great work as always. Good luck.
You do great work! Bet they’ll fish great too.
Sweet jigs!
I didn't put a top coat on these. Used Krinkle Mirror Flash for the shiny ones. 4-5 strands will tie 3 jigs. Total length is 1/2 ", trout are hatchery raised on pellets so trying to make small baits. Olive gold combination should work very well there.
I believe you’re gonna be busy, real nice Jim.
The little 1/80 was the star of my trip. Caught over half my trout in the two days fishing it with a split shot a foot up under a small float. Really came through later in the day when bite slows down. Didn't catch one on the 1/48 baits. Constantly changing colors, catch one on first couple drifts along the weed on the far bank and nothing for 15 minutes. Change color and catch another one. Missed more strikes with the tiny baits but wouldn't touch anything larger.
I call that the color game and I play it sometimes too. Makes me wanna use a clip but I never do.
I have some of those heads thanks to you!!
If they are hatchery raised, It helps to know what color their feed was ate the hatchery. Often more fish would e caught with a bait this color.
Learned this at about 10 yrs old. After Dad retired from the Marines on the way to the new house we went camping and fishing up in the Los Angeles National Forest. Summer time. We spent a week there, and fished a stocked, spring fed lake. Tried everything, and no bites. Close to the end of our time there, two young men showed up, and I mean they were putting the Kaboom on them trout. One after the other. Dad had rented a row boat that day, and we never seen what they were using. That evening after diner, my brother and I grabbed our poles and went to see if the evening bite was on. We went were those two boys were, and my brother found a partial bag of the marshmallow, circus peanuts. You know, the orange colored candy ones. Well we said what the heck, we've tried everything else, why not. It turned out to be the trick.
It turned out the food pellets the trout were fed at the hatchery was in fact orange.
Funny that you mentioned color of their food, matching the hatch. I stopped fishing and ate a sandwich and sat on a bench next to the river. Had rye bread and started rolling little balls of bread flicking them into the water and within a couple seconds they were eaten by trout. There was a guy fishing there with his two sons and they hadn't caught a thing. Went to the truck and gave them a piece of rye bread and told them to use it with no weight. In less than a half hour they all had their limits. Rye bread balls were almost the same color as the hatchery trout pellets.
Works on fishery raised fish every time...
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