Homemade Jigs

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Fishtopher
So my wife brought home some arts and craft set the other day. My little girl comes up to me while im cleaning out a tackle box and asks me to play art with her. Just so happens I had a pack of plain jigs in my hand. Two hours later and I had a few fishy lookin jigs and a few crazy lookin jigs.

Opinions anyone???
 
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FishFinger
Honestly I'd imagine they would work well. I've never used brown for jig bodies, but that dosen't mean anything other than I've never tried them.
 
F
FishSchooler
Wow, that simple, pipe cleaner for body, feathers for tail hairs, and a jig... What holds it together? That is a brilliant idea... Your smart...
 
F
Fishtopher
FishSchooler said:
Wow, that simple, pipe cleaner for body, feathers for tail hairs, and a jig... What holds it together? That is a brilliant idea... Your smart...
Click to expand...

It's not a pipe cleaner, same thing without the wire. And I used hot glue(carefully!).
 
F
FishFinger
are they tough? usually the test is trying to pull to twist them apart
 
C
chris61182
I wouldn't recommend using pipe cleaners, I attempted that several years ago and the results were not nearly as good as just using plain chenille yarn.
 
F
FishSchooler
Wouldnt hot glue give off an odor that would make a fish high? :lol:
 
H
Hawk
Back in 1989 i met a man from Soquel, CA that made his own jigs. He had just caught a 66lb+ oz Striped Bass with one of his jigs, on his bassboat. That was at San Luis reservoir Forebay i n Ca. At that time i heard it was the record weight Striper caught in freshwater.......................................................................
 
1
1aB
"Fishtopher" your jigs look like they might provoke an aggressive reaction bite. Here's another more natural color approach from my jig mentor in PA. A few strands of flash filament like shown might enhance your own ties.
 
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1aB
"Fishfinger", I like the reverse egg sucker pattern, is that an egg sh**ing leech? How is the trailing bead attached? The jig hook looks nicely sturdy & sharp, what kind is it? Does the twisted flash work better for you than straight? When do you fish pink and when black? Think your signature could also have "bead me".
 
F
Fishtopher
None of that stuff came in my daughters art set...
 
F
FishSchooler
mind sending one or two of those to me?
 
F
Fishtopher
Any other opinions/thoughts on the colour brown for hatchery fish?
 
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FishSchooler
I wonder if i could get that hatchery food from bonneville dam... one quarter gets you a handful, then crush them up and add water and some garlic and velveeta, and flour, boom, I got meself some killer trout bait...
 
H
Hawk
You can buy by the pound brown floating or sinking fish food pellets at the Grange COOP................................................mainly food for trout.
 
1
1aB
"Fishtopher", hows about getting the jigs wet and posting a report?
 
B
bigdog
I think they look good and I think the ones you had with you on friday looked good to. Got me thinking I might try making some jigs now to never really have done much jig fishing yet but thinking of starting to now
 
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1aB
"Fishtopher", thanks for the report. Sorry for the late reply, been very bizzy. If any of your jigs work, I'd be interested.
 
M
Mike123

Over The Edge Tackle has an identical jig called the "dingleberry".
It does work on some steelhead.
 
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