RED TAILS for a Tuskegee Airman

[shipahoy41]

These "Red Tail" lures are for the son of a family friend. His dad and my dad were airplane mechanics with the Tuskegee Airmen. This is what I came up with to send to him to fish with and to honor our dads for their service. Some of the jigs can be fished under a slip float. The White Wax worms and the Red worms are to be floated off the bottom from six to ten inches. (See the photo). I made them with the floating material concealed inside the red balloon or white balloon wrapping.

I welcome your comments.

Mike

[SuperDave336]

Good job. I’m sure he will appreciate them.

[BuckeyeCrappie]

[Fatman]

Nice

[snake River]

Many years ago I used to tie up a little trout fly streamers with red on the tail end underneath the eye of the hook yellow body white behind the eye of the HOOK on top they were killers . That was in the early 60s I think I was about 15 or 16.

[shipahoy41]

There is something about using blood red in all of my lures. It might be the hook sometimes. It might be in imitation open gill plate sometimes. It might be a blood red jig head sometimes. It might be a blood red tail as in this case. The point is that I have confidence in the color because it attracts the prey to what they think is a wounded baitfish. I have blood red color somewhere on or in 97% of all my lures. The most important tools in your tackle box are Slab Sauce and confidence.

Here is another tip. Instead of using a lighter to seal the tip end of the yarn in the tail, just use a long needle and separate the tail strands. Now you have a blood red simulation in a tube tail type jig. Put some Slab Sauce on the yarn. It stays active a long time in the yarn and leaves a nice scent trail. Since the scent is within grasp of the hook point... You got dinner.



Mike

[DockShootinJack]

They look awesome Mike