Looking to trade jig pattern recipies & pics

[TAE73]

I just looking to see if any has some jig patterns to share. I have attacted a pic to show 2 of mine. I love making my own jigs at home after work. I make mostly chenille/marabou style but would love to get some ideas about hair jigs. These are 1/16oz, weedless using a speckled chenille, and marbou tail with some flash material in the tail (but you cant see them very well).

[Tim The Lippa Rippa Mon]

Nice work Ted. I had been thinking that you were only "painting" your own jig heads. I have always tried to be creative with my own jigs, but they always seem to look like a 6th grader's project by the time I am done messing with them.

I just leave it to the pros now. Crappie Magic makes some realy awesome stuff, and Mike, the owner is on this board from time to time too. I would reccomend you check out his stuff. It's awesome! I will let you try some of the ones I got from him when I finally get down there to fish with ya.

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[fisherman4life]

man those are some nice looking jigs. i tie flies for smallmouth fishing during the float and fly season, but have never attempted to tie jigs. where do you get your material?

[TAE73]

Tim,I dont have to worry about catch any fish in IL, doesnt sound like there is any there anways.

The main body is a speckled chenille, I have tied them with this and just plain chenille. Most flyshops carry the chenille, the speckled I think is just starting to come out on the market. The flyshop in town here carrys it, it comes from this company. I use to tie flies for trout fishing but havent trout fish in year.

www.spiritriverinc.com

[Boscoe]

hope this works, the ones on the left are bead head scuds pattern came off fly tying site, the ones around the quarter are tied on a fly hook with floss bodies coated with Sally Hanson nail polish, they are pretty much netural bouyancy, sink about 1 ft every 3 seconds, the jigs range from 1/00th to 1/32 oz, bucktail with flash

[Moose1am]

I was reading in the Herters Professional Guide book a few weeks ago and some other magazine articles that discussed fishing small flys or baits by tying them to the back hook of a crank bait or a popper. They tied the fly to the back hook with very thin line. 2lb or 4lb tippets or mono.


Has anyone ever tied doing that?

hope this works, the ones on the left are bead head scuds pattern came off fly tying site, the ones around the quarter are tied on a fly hook with floss bodies coated with Sally Hanson nail polish, they are pretty much netural bouyancy, sink about 1 ft every 3 seconds, the jigs range from 1/00th to 1/32 oz, bucktail with flash

[CrappiePappy]

as I've previously posted on several occasions .... I use a Hot-n-Tot crankbait with a trailer line & jig. And though this set-up is mostly used for trolling for Hybrid Stripers - it does occasionally produce Crappie (on the jig). I would, however, beg to differ on the concept of tying a trailer line on the "back" hooks of a "crankbait". You might get away with doing that, if you're using a "fly" .... but, if you're using a jig of any appreciable weight, chances are the crankbait will not run correctly. The drag would be on the tail end of the crankbait, and it would probably not dive and/or run true. NOW, if you tie the leader line to the "front" hook (or better yet, the wire loop that the front hook is attached to) ..... then the drag is towards the front of the bait, pulling the head of the bait downwards, and helping the crankbait maintain a "nose down" attitude. It should dive correctly and has a better chance of running true.
And a 1/16oz jig - though it may seem trivial in size and weight - may require a slightly larger crankbait, to pull it with and maintain it's diving & true running capabilities. The "speed" that the set-up is being pulled is a factor .. and I've had to go up one size model of Hot-n-Tot, to take a 1/16oz jig down and keep itself "on track". Otherwise, there's the distinct possibility of the crankbait "rolling" (spinning in a circle underwater) or surfacing.
Just some of my observations and experiences ....FYI .........luck2ya ...cp

[Moose1am]

Point taken on the crankbait. Maybe a suspending bait would work with the fly as well. Something to get the fly down to the correct depth and then let it sit there to intice the crappie during the cold water months.

Might even tie a dropper line off on the main line above where the crank bait is attached and then tie the fly or jig to the dropper line. Again the fly or nymphs in about size 16 would be my first choice. Heck I could even use the fly on my drop shot setups and vertically fish them instead of jigs. I will have to give that a try next summer. Especially at the time that the mayflies are getting ready to hatch. A may fly larval fly would maybe work. Those mayfly pupate and rise to the surface pretty fast and then have to break though the water's surface film and then crawl out of their pupa shell and dry their wings before they can fly and take off. Not sure how long they live but not very long. They don't even eat after they pupate and become adults. All they do is mate and the females swim out over the water and drop the eggs and then die or become fish food. But when the hatch is on I bet the Crappie single them out and eat them while the eating is good.

as I've previously posted on several occasions .... I use a Hot-n-Tot crankbait with a trailer line & jig. And though this set-up is mostly used for trolling for Hybrid Stripers - it does occasionally produce Crappie (on the jig). I would, however, beg to differ on the concept of tying a trailer line on the "back" hooks of a "crankbait". You might get away with doing that, if you're using a "fly" .... but, if you're using a jig of any appreciable weight, chances are the crankbait will not run correctly. The drag would be on the tail end of the crankbait, and it would probably not dive and/or run true. NOW, if you tie the leader line to the "front" hook (or better yet, the wire loop that the front hook is attached to) ..... then the drag is towards the front of the bait, pulling the head of the bait downwards, and helping the crankbait maintain a "nose down" attitude. It should dive correctly and has a better chance of running true.
And a 1/16oz jig - though it may seem trivial in size and weight - may require a slightly larger crankbait, to pull it with and maintain it's diving & true running capabilities. The "speed" that the set-up is being pulled is a factor .. and I've had to go up one size model of Hot-n-Tot, to take a 1/16oz jig down and keep itself "on track". Otherwise, there's the distinct possibility of the crankbait "rolling" (spinning in a circle underwater) or surfacing.
Just some of my observations and experiences ....FYI .........luck2ya ...cp

[Moose1am]

Here is the crank bait picture that I found using a line and the fly.

[Mike Simpson]

Ted,
Your jigs look like real fish catchers to me!
Here are some of my hand tieds in hopes they give you some ideas. I don't know if they are any particular named type or pattern, just a collection of ideas I got from experimenting and learning from other anglers, some from this very board in fact! 12 of the 17 are hair jigs, you can probably spot the feathers. I like to use the flashabou accent like you do. It makes a better looking jig but I also believe they produce more fish because of the way it catches and reflects the light.

For kinds of chenille I like to use the tinsel, sparkle, but mostly the pearl chenille as shown in this picture. (The bottom, right jig with the red hackle collar has plain chenille while all others are pearl chenille)

The four jigs in the bottom center all have hackle collars, not sure what the fish think it looks like but they seem to like it. They are exaggerated in size, but provide great action with little movement. In the water they appear to "breathe."




I hope this helps!

Best Fishes,
Mike