While I'm recovering from minor arm surgery, I decided to build up my depleting inventory of hair jigs. I keep the smelly tails in a bag that also holds some bags of feathers and thought of adding them to the jigs.  My thinking is that the longer neck hackle would extend past the hair and move more easily when the jig wasn't being worked.  Anyone ever tried this?  I also added some blood quill to a couple of white jigs and they really jump out at you when you look at them, I hope they grab the attention of a few bass.?

I started playing around with the preacher style jigs recently as well. They are really fun to tie. The 1/8oz size are killer on creek smallies.

Apparently I’m still figuring out how to upload pics on here 

I’m gonna try this one more time then I quit.

I like a rabbit zonker tail on my hair jigs.

But i keep my colours very boring. 

The only ones I've added feathers to are duck flank feathers for Float and Flies.  The long neck and saddles I keep for tying flies.  

I use feathers and buck tail when I'm tying streamers for fly fishing.  When I tying jigs I tend to stick to one material either bucktail with a bit of flash, marabou, spinner bait skirt layers or feathers.  The combination the buck tail/feather combination works well with streamers, should work well with jigs.

This is what one of my streamers looks like

 

This one is 7 inches long.  A bit large for a jig. What I would suggest is tie in the buck tail first, then tie in a bit of flash on either side, then tie in the feathers.  No more than 4 around the shank.