Another Bug...

This jig has a spike-like tail of leather.  Its body is made of a dark green chenille.

Materials:

• A 3/8-ounce football head jig with a 3/0 hook
• Lion Brand Thick & Quick Chenille Yarn - basil
• Pro-Tec Powder Paint - orange mixture (hot pink + green chartreuse in a 1:1 ratio)
• Tandy Leather Factory Premium Leather - brown
• Kiwi Boot Lace - brown
• Danville Flymaster Plus Thread (210 denier) - olive
• Coats & Clark Machine Embroidery Thread (40-wt.) - dark olive

Chocoate-Caramel Bass Dessert

I hope that this jig becomes a dessert, or the main course, for hungry bass. ;)

 Materials:

• A 3/8-ounce football head jig with a 3/0 hook
• Kiwi Boot Lace (quartered) - dark brown
• Tandy Leather Factory Premium Leather for spike tail
• Lion Brand Suede Yarn - caramel
• UTC Ultra Thread 140 denier - rusty brown
• Harbor Freight, Pro-Tec, and Orbit Powder Paint - caramel mixture (HF red + PT green chartreuse + Orbit clear in 1:1:1 ratio)

Canyon Craw Bug

Tied this one last night using a fairly interesting chenille yarn that shows combinations of reddish-brown hues.  I've used it before on other jigs.  It looks pretty good on this type of jig, I think.

Materials:

•  A 3/8-ounce football head with a 3/0 hook
• Kiwi Boot Lace - dark brown
• Harbor Freight Powder Paint - plum brown mixture
• Lion Brand Suede Chenille - canyon
• UTC Ultra Thread 140 denier - rusty brown

Saving For Tennessee's Temperate Bass

Tied this craft fur jig over the weekend for the brutish white bass of the Tennessee River.  If a striped bass should hit it, well then, I'd better be living rightly. ;)

Its tail is made from red leather.  Though thicker, I have some off-white and purple-colored leather that I've yet to experiment with.

This jig weighs about 1/4 of an ounce and has a 1/0 bronze hook.

Whip-Tailed Ugly Bug

I love to tie these and hope to fish one very soon.

Materials:

• A 3/16-ounce ball head jig with a 1/0 bronze hook.
• Kiwi Boot Lace (quartered) - dark brown.
• Tandy Leather Factory Premium Leather Scrap - brown.
• Lion Suede Yarn (Lion Brand) #5  - coffee.
• UTC Ultra Thread 140 denier - rusty brown.
• Pro-Tec Powder Paint - bright orange mixture (hot pink + yellow chartreuse @ 1:1 ratio)

Hogsucker Jig

Cut a zonker strip and tied two chinchilla coque saddles around some antique white chenille to produce this jig. It weighs 1/4 of an ounce and has a 1/0 hook.

The tool in the foreground is a seam ripper. It's useful for cutting your own zonker strips from rabbit pieces and whole pelts.

Extended Leather & Chenille Grub

No need for a long hook shank to tie a longer grub. ;)

 This one is about 4 inches long.  Its body is extended by Latigo Lace.