Glow fish

On 12/3/2021 at 5:19 PM, Chris Catignani said:

So...I started out trying to make a motor oil...with purple and chartreuse...didnt quit get what I wanted...then I decided to make a two color with the failed motor oil and remelt some blue things someone gave me...it looked kind okish....then just decided to just mix the two. And this is actually pretty cool...I dont think the picture does it much justice. When I hold it up to the light and it goes white!

Yoooooo that should kill. Kinda looks like the sorta sheen fish have underwater when the light hits right. 

A few new jigs. Finding the right matching trailer is half the fun. 

I decided to make, of all things a wooden spoon. Didn't know if it could be done. It actually came out pretty nice. I'll have to see how it tracks when the ice eventually goes out here at the lake. I produced a video of how it was made.

 

Anybody interested in my bags of unusable soft plastics for remelt? 

 

PM me...let's make a deal. 

Rivers are finally iced over and most likely wont be fishable for a couple months. I’m already thinking iceout for smallie and walleye!

Hired a new assistant, not sure if she is going to work out yet?

 

Allen 

She looks thrilled lol

I awhile ago someone posted a "woolly bugger" jig.  Taking a cue from that I decided tie my best producing crayfish fly and tie it on some jigs for myself and the guys I fish to use with our spinning tackle.  It's a mish-mash of jigs, two on Ned jigs, two on a flat jig, and one on a round jig.  I plan to tie a dozen or so we each get a couple to try.

A group shot

 

One tied on a Ned jig

 

One tied on a "flat" jig.  If anyone knows what style jig it is I'd appreciate the information

Look good. What are the eyes made of

I call them "map" pins.  I pick them up in the craft stores.  They're a straight pin with a round plastic head.  I think they run around $5 for a hundred.  They're mixed colors white, black, red, orange, green, blue and yellow.  They come in what I call a medium and large size.  If you look the two in the back tied on the Ned jigs in the first picture.  The "olive" ones are the large size and the black ones are medium.  I was wondering what to do with the other colors, and realized I could use permanent markers to change colors.  So the "olive" ones are white ones I colored with an olive permanent marker.  

  What I do is figure out how far I want them to stick out and bend the pin, so that when I tie them in along the side of the shank they spread apart and sit above the claws.

Ok, I know what you are talking bout now.  ? my Grandma always had a bunch of these in her sewing kit.

21 hours ago, Fallser said:

 

One tied on a "flat" jig.  If anyone knows what style jig it is I'd appreciate the information

 

Those are great, I love the eyes!

 

Is your "flat jig" an OG Slider Head? 

I think you're right.  Now that a name's been thrown out.  I think they were called slider jigs when I brought them.  I'll see how they work and then go looking for some more.

I like the botton slider head ?

 

Second batch of wooly bugger jigs.  The chenille I ordered is really fat, almost too much for these 1/8oz heads and way too thick for the smaller 1/16 and 1/32oz heads I want to tie on.  My techniques still need a lot of work, but I made six total and didn't have to cut any apart to start over, which is progress.  

 

Let me know what kind of heads you need as I have a few around here.

 

Allen

Thanks, will do!

 

Right now I am burning through my box o' random jigheads as I practice tying.  

Glide bait...

Just had to put the new blades on something. 

 

Allen 

That’s some fancy dancy spacer you have there Allen.

Allen, you been walking around the Walmart earring hobby aisle?

14 hours ago, Jig Man said:

That’s some fancy dancy spacer you have there Allen.

 

Don't hate me because I am beautiful! 

 

13 hours ago, heavyduty said:

Allen, you been walking around the Walmart earring hobby aisle?

 

Hobby Lobby actually.

 

Allen

Sheez, you put a couple of pieces of jewelry on a lure and your labeled for life....

6 hours ago, Munkin said:

 

Don't hate me because I am beautiful! 

 

 

Hobby Lobby actually.

 

Allen

 

I hear you and do the same. That way if the homemade bait doesn't catch fish, my wife can wear them!