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good job and great color combo.

I did tie some 1/8's a while ago and got it done for a friend and just maybe with some experimentation hopefully can come up with a way to do it again. thinking about doing more of the size 10...

each kiptail will have several lengths of hair suitable for different sized jigs. I used to cut the tail in pieces with a side cutter, and have a gallon ziplock bag to store the short hair butt ends...

Fatman, hope you are doing well!

I know what you mean, that hook they use I think is a custom made hook and several people have mentioned wanting to get some or similar. they are way sharper than any other hook that I have mentioned...

Vacrappieman, the size 6 eagle claw 574 is a good hook but may be larger than what you are wanting. they hook up great and very rarely miss a fish. there is the eagle claw 630 o,shaunessy jighook...

1/64 or 1/80 black and yellow chart. kiptail jig with red thread neck, also add a crappie nibble and fish under a tiny round float with the piece of lead weight built in the bottom. purple and yellow...

It depends on what materials it is made of and who tied it. A kiptail jig tied using a touch of super glue to lock the hair in will last 300 crappies or white perch etc. there are durability tricks...

He has a heck of a jighead mold collection too, hundreds of them.

shad darts, they are very common around here especially in march and april when the shad make their annual run up the rivers. most of the best rivers have significant current so a heavier jig is...

when tying these jigs for myself and my fishing buddy, I leave the head unpainted and use two contrasting colors on the hair, the thread is always red on my own jigs. I used to paint all the heads...

Another thing is this, these are big crappie baits, I tie some for a guy and his father, they crappie fish while spider rigging, they are very secretive as to their crappie fishing but being the guy...

Skip. I remember that story well! It didn't surprise me either. the man that turned me on to the kiptail jig started using them in the 60's, they were popular back then and were called pinkie jigs....

the deer tail tho, won't last real long because once it kinks, it will break off, not so with the calf tail, but you need both jigs, kiptail for under a float and bucktails for casting. my favorite...

there is a 50k acre lake in Va. that is probably the best crappie fishing around here and one of the local favorite jigs is a 3/32 bucktail with a size 4 jighook, plain unpainted head, red thread,...

those are some pretty ties you did up on that head Skip.

Skip I do like those jigheads and every time you show them I have the urge to make a one cavity mold of that head except I would move the hook back a little so I could hang it on a loop knot and get...

good job Clancy! those jigs look good too, and I know that Louisiana and Mississippi crappie anglers use those chenille and kiptail jigs to great effect. Up here in Virginia though where I fish the...

kiptail takes a lot of patience and determination to learn how to tie a good looking jig, to me it is worth it. I have gone the craft hair route too and was using hair from punisher, I couldn't catch...

another thing is I use single edge razor blades to trim the excess length of hair just behind the jigs head before finishing the thread wraps, I do this by very carefully pressing on the hair just in...

tying with kiptail takes some getting used to, the tail will have shorter hair towards the butt end and it gets longer towards the tip, the tail will usually be good for several sizes of jigs...

Clancy, kiptail or calftail is much more durable than buck or doe tail. It also will get softer and somewhat transluscent when it is in the water. I fish kiptail jigs in the 1/64 to 1/8 oz. range...

I want to say that the jig you are describing sounds like the old blue fox crappie jigs, don't think they are made anymore but could certainly be replicated easily, they were very sparse with the...

I love to fish the 1/32 and 1/64 thread neck kiptail jigs tipped with a crappie nibble under a tiny float most the time but I once cleaned house on a bed with a 1/16 jighead and a 2 inch kalin triple...

plain lead head, red thread, black for the top and yellow chart for the bottom, with a pink crappie nibble, fished under a small float.

great to see you posting again Led, I missed seeing your pics.

clint, that fly looks great, good job. there are two artificial baits I have done well with for crackers, a black slider body with the whitish glow paddle type tail on a roadrunner and the other is a...

way to go vacrappieman! that is a good string of fish and congrats on your little girl, she's a keeper.

Tennessee trey, You are making some real nice jigs there! I love to fish with the kiptail in my jigs and had a guy on here who was killing the crappie on kiptail jigs and he told me that when he...

there are two sickle jighooks the matzuo and more recently the lil nasty. After using both I prefer the matzuo even though you will typically get more misshaped hooks with them, they are sharper than...