My hands are beat to death after a day of tying. I banged out 39 jigs today. Not your ordinary smallmouth jig. I made these with heavy hooks for those rowdy TN bronzebacks but I bet the green fish will like them too. I stayed with a few classic colors black/blue and watermelon/brown but I'm anxious to see if my other creative color I call rootbeer sunrise might get bit.  I It resembles a popular shad rap color, original crawdad. I used bucktail, saddle hackle, and accented them with some UV flash. Let me know what y'all think.

 

really like the looks of those, especially the watermelon/brown!  nice work!

Those look really nice!!

You've got the chops for tying hair jigs, no question.

If I didn't look closely (and know better) to see the threads in the collars, I'd think you had pushed the hair into tubing. Do you have bionic parts that enable you to tie that consistently?

 

3 hours ago, Will Wetline said:

You've got the chops for tying hair jigs, no question.

If I didn't look closely (and know better) to see the threads in the collars, I'd think you had pushed the hair into tubing. Do you have bionic parts that enable you to tie that consistently?

 

Will, your words are too kind. I will say that one thing that helps are great materials. Thanks guys!

You done good!

What size are those? I really like the use of hackle, I've been using feathers a lot more on my buck tail jigs, it is amazing how many extra bites I get just from that little extra movement. Well done and the collars are very uniform, excellent quality without a doubt, Bravo!!!!!!

7 hours ago, smalljaw67 said:

What size are those? I really like the use of hackle, I've been using feathers a lot more on my buck tail jigs, it is amazing how many extra bites I get just from that little extra movement. Well done and the collars are very uniform, excellent quality without a doubt, Bravo!!!!!!

3/8 and 1/2 oz. Thanks for the compliments. The hackle serves as a trailer. They have amazing action with little movement. Perfect for cold, lethargic fish. These babies will be great for dragging off of a bluff or chunk rock bank or lifting them off the bottom and letting them fall on any structure. I'm itchin' to go wet one!

Excellent work!

Beautiful!

 

Thanks guys! I got out for the first time this year with Paul. We caught around 10, most on these jigs, in rough conditions before the rain ran us off.

Very well made!