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Prepared a little tonight for a future crappie fishing trip.
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Made some "old school" hair jigs tied with craft fur and tinsel. Even the rod wrapping thread that I used is old (Gudebrod Gude Wind). ;)
Limetreuse-colored, all are 1/16-ouncers with #2 hooks. Each is approximately 1.5 inches long (a little longer with tinsel).
Don't do good with that color around here,but the jigs are good looking.
mikeb
Very good looking jigs.
Nice jigs, dont see a lot of guys on here using craft fur, not sure why, because it holds a nice body shape when wet and has lots of action. I like it better then maroubou.
i dont think they will work, send me 10 or so and i will try them for you .just tryin to help ya out man.:D
Nice looking jigs, nothing wrong with craft hair. The float and fly jigs are made with it but the stuff they use is way better than what you can get at Wal-Mart.
Fatman
Great looking jigs,love the limetreuse color.I think a jig with a limetreuse back with a light pink or white belly would be killer.
I do have one color of craft fur that I use. Got the recipe from a guide here on T-Bend and he uses this a lot and it's simple enough. Mine also has flash on it, but the color is the one that starts out black and turns silver or maybe some would say white. Anyway it works as I have tried it and even sold a few.
He uses the entire length too as the crappie have big enough mouths to still get them even with the tail being really long.
Your jigs look like they are good and you should probably catch fish with them as well. Good job,
Skip
nice work pup.great color"!good luck...":)
Thank you for the kind words Guys.
I like to tie with craft fur a lot. Had a fellow here in the Indianapolis area who wanted to do some field testing of my bass jigs this spring. He posted very good results to his own and another Indiana web site. Then, he asked me to tie him some more. I obliged. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Buckeye Mike
We plan to get out together on May 17. Going to fish a local reservoir for crappie. The jigs pictured above get to go swimming then. ;)
I'd agree that there are some types of craft fur that are somewhat painful to tie with due to the short fibers that bunch up near the base of a swatch cut. I've taught myself how to quickly get rid of those, so most craft fur is OK by me.
It does look good to me in the water. Works great with the Float-N-Fly presentation for smallmouth bass that Fatman mentioned.
You are welcome here.
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Old Ship says hello. Those are nice jigs.
I am glad that you cast a line to this forum and I also extend a welcome you on behalf of all the members. Welcome from Alabama. "Shipahoy and I'll see you on the water."
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Look real good
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Originally Posted by shipahoy41
Shipahoy41,
Thank you for the welcome. And I thank you and Decoy Carver for your compliments.
Pup,
good looking jigs. Show us some more.
Watch out crappie. Jigs look very proffessional. Great job.
Thanks again fellas. Hopefully, I'll have some more to tie and show very soon.
Chuck,
I see that you are originally from Terre Haute. So am I.
You didn't happen to have an outdoors show on what used to be call-lettered WIIL (before it became WBAK) TV-38 back in the 70s, did you? I seem to remember your name and a fellow named Gary Auten. Maybe, he's your brother?
I watched a few episodes of it and enjoyed it.
Hi pup. Thanks for the compliment. Yes, Gary and I had a show on channel 38, "LETS GO FISHING" 1 hour a week for 18 mo.. We had a great time teaching and meeting great people.
Gary's son is in Benton and has created "Auten Interactive" Beth, his wife created "Classic Patterns" They are in Michigan this weekend hunting turkeys with Van Dam.
Were did you go to school? I will be back in TH from the 5/26 till the middle of September. Maybe we can get together for coffee. I come to Indpls to pick up parts or personally shop. My cell phone is 812-249-0066. I see that some people are catching a few, but not the 13 - 16" slabs. I was looking forward to coming to a slabfest and meeting IN crappie fishermen, but the rule that you had to be a resident, shut me out.:( I go to GA and FL slabfest - no such rule. Everybody is welcome. One couple travels from PA meet everyone and fish. As I said, met a great group of fishermen.
Catch a bunch.
Chuck Auten
Old school your butt... That is the only style we use here for them...Look like my jigs..
Chuck,Quote:
Originally Posted by chuckauten
I went to TH South, Purdue U., and, finally, ISU. Do you remember the Lunkershed? ISU AV guys L. Haller and C. Paulin as I recall? I sure would like to get together with you sometime. Bet we'd have some interesting stories to tell. My father taught Life Sciences and did research at ISU for 20+ some odd years.
Now, as to the other reply.
So what?Quote:
Old school your butt... That is the only style we use here for them...Look like my jigs..
Now to answer you.... He said they were old school which i thought was funny since the fly patterns i use for Brookies up here are the same patterns that have been around for a hundred years... So what he calls old school with his jigs we have been using that look ever since i can remember...Not sure why you chimed in Puppy as it wasnt intended for you or even as a slam.. If he looked in the "Jigs NY Style" thread you would see what im talking about...Quote:
Originally Posted by Pup
Balls in your court...:rolleyes::rolleyes:
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