Pepper Heads for Smallmouth Bass

Pepper Heads for Smallmouth Bass

I'm going to try my level-headed best to get out and fish for smallmouth bass next week. So, in preparation for that, I tied a few jigs this evening.

Three-sixteenths of an ounce on #1 hooks. I plan to trail a Baby Guido Bug behind the brown and orange ones and a Falls Minnow behind the black-n-gray. Actually, the black-n-gray jig weighs about 1/4 of an ounce and has a 1/0 hook.

Worked with some black-colored NST glitter to create pumpkin pepper and silver/gray pepper heads.

Picture Test of Flake/Glitter and a Question

Picture Test of Flake/Glitter and a Question

What is a good way to photograph flake/glitter shine? I don't seem to do it very well. :(

Redfins for River Bass

Redfins for River Bass

Materials:

• Northland Gumball Jigs (1/4-oz.) with 1/0 hook
• Sally Hansen Nail Makeup - pure chrome.
• Cover Girl Continuous Color Nail Polish #130 - quicksilver.
• Naturalstar Glitter - red.
• PermaPoxy (30-minute) topcoat.
• Darice Craft Fur - silver.
• Westrim Craft Fur - red.
• Plaid black and red acrylic paints.
• UTC Ultra Thread (210 denier) - red.
• Britelace - silver holographic.

More Hair Jigs for Bass

These are a few ties that I plan to use this fall for local largemouth and smallmouth bass. Each is tied on a 1/4-oz. ball head with a #1 hook.

Also, I hope to fish these in the Indiana waters of Lake Michigan. The big lake has a healthy goby population that serves as forage to its smallmouth bass. So, I hope that the smallmouth might find these tempting.

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.