Just wanting to gain y'alls inputs on these here bream jigs I've been tying/using for quite some time.....
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/l.../200811035.jpg
Thanks so much!!
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Just wanting to gain y'alls inputs on these here bream jigs I've been tying/using for quite some time.....
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/l.../200811035.jpg
Thanks so much!!
i like the little bead head ones looks like you will be eating good
Looks good, what kind of hair is the yellow?
Looks like some fly tying influence in them top ones for sure. I like some of them pretty good. I bet you load the box with bream using them too. The top ones are my favorites for sure. Like the chart tails with black tips.
I got to try some of the Polaris hair last spring on bream and it was really good. When things slowed down just take a tiny piece of most any Power bait worm or what ever and it's on. Simple to tie and works.
Keep tying!
Skip
AW, I like those top ones. I tie a few calf hair jigs but like trying different jigs.
Are those glass beads?:confused:
My wife has many of the glass ones, but I didn't think they would fit over the hook barb. ole Mike
Good stuff.
I got lots of fly hooks, but have to force the brass beads over the hook barb unless I mash it down. If AW is getting by with glass I'd use them. I like the slower fall anyway. ole Mike
That's chartreuse barred zonker strips.
Man I love this material!! You can wrap the strip around the hook shank (this is extremely bulky so use it for big bass jigs or saltwater jigs or even striper jigs!) or you can trim a small piece and tie it onto your crappie jig for some wicked-nasty tail action {check out some of Skip's posts cause he's done a few up this way!}.... or you can cut the hair right off the strip and tie it onto your jig like i do for my crappie and bluegill jigs.
Yeah those little bead heads are itty-bitty indeed!!! But man do they work good in my opinion!! I'll need to find my "rollie-pollie".... it's a bluegill jig that has about 3 or 4 bead heads on it and then I do a tiny wrap of dubbing and set it back and then run in some larva wrap (jelly wrap) around and in between those bead heads and then run the dubbing up underneath and whip finish the larva wrap and dubbing at the head. then tease the dubbing a bit for a "leggy" appearance and it looks just like a rollie-pollie!!
plus these jigs work well as a trailer on in-line spinners and even on crappie jigs!!
Skip you have some keen eyes my friend!! My tying starting out on trout flies .... I called 'em my White River flies cause I tied them when I spent my summers on the family farm up in Northern Arkansas. Always love to sit down and tie up a stellar paradun or emerger now and then; but where I'm located, trout fishing is not feasible (tends to get hot here in Texas and only a few places in Texas where trout do okay but no where near me!). Used to love taking some time and tying up all the life stages of a fly and having them out there on the river and using whatever we were finding at the time!!!
with that polaris was it that nu-cle-ar (??) stuff? I've seen that on YouTube and other places and have wanted to use some but never did get around to it yet.
yeah some of those are glass ... just take a pair of needlenose pliers and gently flatten the barb... makes for a more fun battle and easier to get the fish off when you're going to catch-n-release.... but for most bluegills that I catch it's "release-to-the-grease"!!!! (that's what Wally Marshall says!)
no doubt i am all about seeing how they curl and float in the grease
yes i love the slower fall too!! especially during the colder months cause those fish aren't going to exert a lot of energy so you gotta put it right in front of them and keep it there!!
i didn't have any problems getting those glass beads over onto my fly hooks... maybe a little twisting & turning but they went on real easy... if you look real close at that top pic, you can still see the barbs on those hooks....
man you need to try out my recipe for bluegills (stellar for crappie too!)
Gilly-pups Alan W. Miller
you know i am chef right AW
would ya'll like a killer tip on slow fall set up's?
throw down that tip man!!
Look at you using word-press i am impressed.
slow fall setups i am down for a tip
yeah i like it as well but i am geeking out on wiki right now the new imac comes with a wiki server and talk about easy. son this thing is click and bam there it is. i like word-press cause it has a mobile app for the iphone and you can blog and update from the mobile device.
Nice looking jigs
Fatman
I like those AW, thats all I need is to get hooked on the bream tying as well.
you'd be amazed at how quick you can whip up bream/bluegill jigs!!! you can almost go into a maniac trance just doing it!! hahahaha
I don't think they will work you better send them to me and I will dispose of them properly ;)
Joe
hehehe... watch what ya ask for!!!
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who would like the ultimate slow drop set-up I used it for years on bass and I used it last month on crappie now I'm gonna tell I'll only P.M. this to you and I.f you post it I'll!!!!!!!!! burn all your tying supplies up this is taboo man!
pm me i am actually new to using jigs so any help in how to fish them would be great and i wont tell ;)
Joe
you can only tell them how well you did XXXXX##XXXXE###
so what do you men think pretty smart Ya it works I promise you ! If you need me to draw you a diagram I'll send it.
"O" 1 more thing when you tie the jig pull the knot towards the back of the eye towards the hook point let the jig hange free it should hange tail up if not rety knot or change jigs check this every time.I put 37 fish in the boat in 51 mins 1 day the competion caught 3.