Spider Sliders for Smallies

Tough to see the #2 gold hooks in this photo.

Materials:

• 1/8-oz. spider slider head with #2 hook.
• Brown Disco eyelash yarn.
• Brown nail polish with two-part epoxy for head finish.
• Orange craft fur.
• 40-wt. machine embroidery thread and 140 denier Ultra Thread - orange/fl. fire orange.

Baby Bass Jigs

Largemouth bass (LMB) can be cannibalistic. With that in mind, I tied the jigs shown below to represent LMB young-of-the-year. Included are a couple of red-eyed variants. Each is tied on a 1/4-oz. ballhead jig with a 1/0 hook.

May fish them for smallmouth bass too.

Electric Chickens for Bass

This article provides a good background on this popular color combination.

In SC we call it the Electric Chicken

I tied a few jigs with this collor pattern exspressly for local bass recently. :)  Three photos of them will follow below.  I used eyelash yarn and #5 chenille for their tails and bodies, respectively.  The jig heads used weigh either 1/8 or 1/4 of an ounce.

All jigs pictured are a mutated form of Electric Chicken with the exception of my Ugly Bug for 2010 in the upper left of the first photo below.

Another Ugly Bug 2010

Tied this one this morning.  Has a sleeker body and a slightly longer tail.

Ugly Bug 2010

My version. A 1/4-ounce ball head with a 1/0 hook.

 

Materials:

• Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Nail Polish - cardinal.
• White acrylic paint for base coat.
• Caron Glimmer Chenille Yarn #5 - apple.
• Coats & Clark Machine Embroidery Thread (40-wt.) - electric green.
• Two-part epoxy for jig head topcoat.
• Westrim Elastic Cording - silver.
• Googly craft eyes.
• Cyanoacrylate glue to attach craft eyes.

Chenille-bodied Minnow Heads

Materials:

• Arkie Minnow Head Jig - 1/16-ounce with #4 hook.
• Lion Suede #5 in scarlet, seacrest, and ebony colors.
• UTC Ultra Thread in red and black - 140 denier.
• Marabou/feather in limetreuse, black, and gray.
• Flash in red and gold.
• White and black acrylic paint for eyes and base coat.
• Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Nail Polish - cardinal.
• Two-part epoxy for topcoat.

Thin Minns

Materials:

• 1/16-ounce ballhead jig with #4 hook.
• Gray, white, and black acrylic paint.
• Two-part epoxy for jig head topcoat.
• Uni-Floss 600 1x - gray.
• Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Nail Polish (invisible) for body topcoat.
• UTC Ultra Thread 140 denier for underbody - red.
• Wapsi Marabou (Blood Quill) - shad gray.
• Flymasters/Wapsi Flashabou Accent - red.