Getting started in tying jigs

[skeetbum]

I will also agree with the ones above telling you this addiction is real and costly. It's a lot of fun to tie and to catch on something you tied is the icing on the cake!

Skip

I also have to vote along with Skip and the many others, this gets a hold on you and won’t let go. I have been doing this a good while and experienced something last weekend that I had never realized before. It was about as diy as one can get, it went like this;
I bought the hook, poured the head, painted the head, tied the jig, tied it to the fly rod I built, and caught my first American shad on a fly rod ever. Poor mans Tarpon. Quite satisfying, and he still swims for someone else to enjoy. It just doesn’t get much better than that!

[Bigskyfisherman]

My son (Montanaboy} just started tying. He says he will only tie a few jigs that he knows will work (ha). When the creative juices start flowing, he will be tying all kinds of combinations.
i experiment with all kinds of material (the wife's yarn, trout-tying feathers, even some Arctic fox fur that I got from Skip). Result: Over a hundred jigs that have never been in the water. Lately, I have been using several previously untried jigs each time out. Some working very well, some probably just drawing a chuckle from any crappie that sees them.

[skeetbum]

Big sky, I have a friend in TN that goes by Drdore (Sam). He is also held inside by the cold and ties some very nice jigs. You should holler at him and swap ideas, help keep you busy in these cold months. He just did a few crawfish flies that are really good.

[skeetbum]

[skeetbum]

The crawfish I spoke of.

[Redge]

Those crawdads are cool Skeet!


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[skiptomylu]

My son (Montanaboy} just started tying. He says he will only tie a few jigs that he knows will work (ha). When the creative juices start flowing, he will be tying all kinds of combinations.
i experiment with all kinds of material (the wife's yarn, trout-tying feathers, even some Arctic fox fur that I got from Skip). Result: Over a hundred jigs that have never been in the water. Lately, I have been using several previously untried jigs each time out. Some working very well, some probably just drawing a chuckle from any crappie that sees them.

Yes and if the juice doesn't flow, probably means you should just buy the jigs you want. If the juices do flow you need to know you may be in trouble with an addiction, lol!

That Arctic Fox is killer stuff! Just brush or comb out some of the under fur and it's great stuff!

Skip