Thread: Tied a couple

Those will do fine James, save room in the cooler for some fish when you get em wet. I use a lot of small kip lately, real durable. Also take 4 or 5 V’s on a head like you used for the kip and keep the thread as short as you can and still make em tough. Been using lots of those and they’re doing very well. Naked heads too. Doesn’t get any simpler. Fish pictures when you get those jigs in the picture wet.

Thank you for the advice skeetbum...it's either been bone chillin' cold, or wet, or both lately. I can deal with the wet better than the cold, but together and my knee and back takes over and I'm done. Started to go today, but before I could get out the door the wind and rain started again. looked at the weather on the phone and said it was 34 deg. and felt like 22 deg. No since in going as I wouldn't make it from truck to the water before knee gave. been there done that and not fun. Supposed to get warmer soon. Hoping to get in and see doc this coming week and see what we can do with the knee. lots of icy hot, ice packs and a brace...just have to see. I know one thing...getting old with a banged up body ain't for sissies...
I officially became an "OLD FART" yesterday according to my granddaughter...Turned 62...

Wait til she gets a few years on her, she’ll understand a lot better. I’ll give her an old fart!! Hope you find a way to get comfortable enough to get some water time. And soon.

Skeetbum, she's giving me a bad time...Albeit she's just 19...I injured my L4-L5 area in my back and messed up my knees in the service years ago, and really paying for it now...Some day's My left knee is swollen up like a foot ball, and feels like someone is in there with a hot iron shoving it around. And that's before I try to stand and move around...And let's not get into weather changes...

Bet they work just fine

Thanks deepfry. I had never heard of the Possum hair zonkers before. This last fall I was over at a lake here that has a walk across bridge and struck up a conversation with an older gent, guessing he was in his 80's. He was eyeing my lure containers and seen I had some hand tied jigs. He remembered a time he lived in Nebraska and a friend of his was killing crappie on some Possum hair jigs. Never said how the guy was tying them, and I found the zonkers in a local fly tying shop and thought what the heck. I might try cutting the hair off a piece and tie a couple like the kiptail jig and compare the two and see if it makes a difference to the crappie...

That’s good thinking. You may not like it but it’s sure worth a try.

Here are 4 I just finished with Skeetbum... I don't think they turned out too bad. I will say that hair is very fine though...I might try adding some flash next time, but going to try these as they are first. Oh ya...these are 1/32 oz with #6 red sickles care of a member here on CDC, "Bugman" at Simply Crappy.