Two-Tone Jig Colors

The bottom three jigs are my initial trials/examples. I added a coat of black powder paint to the top of the yellow jig heads in order to produce a two-tone effect.

Will be attempting several with green and yellow chartreuse base coats later this weekend.

Black 'N' Blues

Tied these on 1/8-oz. ball jigs with # 2 hooks.

Materials:

• A 2:1 mix of Orbit Powder Coating (clear) to Harbor Freight Powder Paint (black matte)
• LashMax Eyelash Yarn - Black Star
• Wapsi Streamer Hair - Saltwater Blue
• Darice Craft Fur - black
• Gudebrod Fly Tying Thread 6/0 - 125 denier

Superpede

A creepy crawler for bass.



Materials:

• Eagle Claw 249WA-1/0 hook
• Boot lace
• Small dumbbell eyes - unknown weight
• Lion Brand Suede - Coffee
• LashMax Eyelash Yarn - Caffeine
• Coats Trilobal Polyester Thread (40-wt.) - Chona Brown

Total length is about 3.5 inches.

Holiday Ties

Tied a few "spider grub"-styled kreature baits and some assorted craft fur minnows.  Mixed a new-to-me powder paint color called "Cotton Candy Confetti".  I think that it's a nice-looking combination of glitters and clear powder paint.

Hope you had a great Christmas and best wishes for the New Year.

The Ultimate Bobbin Threading Tool

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Palm Tree Knockoff

About the Kinami Palm Tree

My knockoff version tied with body reversed:

Materials:

• Kiwi Boot Lace
• Eagle Claw 249WA-1/0 hook
• Lion Brand Suede Chenille - Olive
• Premier Yarns LashMax - Kryptonite
• Coats & Clark Machine Embroidery Thread (40 wt.) - Dk. Olive & Electric Green

Slimmer than the plastic bait, this knockoff could be fished weightless or with a 1/16-oz. bullet head sinker.  Personally, I don't care to fish with more than a 1/8-oz. sinker ahead of soft plastics in the rivers and lakes that I fish.

Soft plastic baits provide good possibilities for designs.

Egg-Sucking Kreature Bait

Patterned similarly to an egg-sucking leech fly pattern.  Total length is about 3.75-4 inches.

Materials:

• 1/8-oz. ball head with #2 bronze hook
• HF Powder Paint - orange (red/yellow mixture)
• UTC Ultra Thread 140 denier - black
• Lion Brand Suede Chenille - Ebony
• Darice Craft Fur - black
• Kiwi Leather Boot Lace
• Premier Yarns LashMax - Black Star