I started making jigs a while back, but im pretty sure im doing it the hard way lol.  I take a clamp spreader and thread the skirts through it which take forever.  I want to learn how to tie them with wire because the rubber skirt holder pulls down off the barb sometimes.  So how do you tie a jig with wire.  Do you need a special tool? ;

all I use is a pair of needlenose and diagonal cutters.

Jigman has a post somewhere on here that shows how to do that.