A Newer Paint Mixture, Style, & Camera

Mixed a pretty nice orange color from the combination of hot pink and yellow chartreuse powder paint.  Here are some of my results.

The newer style that I'm referring to includes the jigs with short chenille bodies and craft fur tails.  I like the possibilities for fishermen who fish hair jigs during the cold weather months and like their jigs to have scent-holding capability.  It looks good to me too, but will it to the fish?  I need to field test this.

Here is a spider grub/kreature bait for Indiana rivers and creeks that contain walleye, sauger, and smallmouth bass.

It is a combination of green chartreuse/limetreuse and light brown colors.  I like it best for big sauger.  Took this picture using a newer camera.  My beloved Samsung D530 may be giving up the ghost.  I've taken hundreds of pictures with it.  It will be missed.  Admittedly, I do like the picture resolution better with the newer camera.  Also, it seems to adjust more rapidly and with better consistency to a variety of lighting conditions.

All jigs weigh about 1/8 of an ounce and have #2 bronze light-wire hooks.

Pinkies!

A classic style of simple hair jigs for crappie, I think.

Materials:

• Sculpin wool/lambswool - white
• Ball head jig (1/16-oz.) with a # 4 red hook
• Pro-Tec Powder Paint/Orbit Powder Paint - Hot Pink/Clear mixture
• Danville Flymaster 6/0 Nylon Thread (70 denier) - white

Some history about Pinkie Jigs can be found here.

Hairy Worms

Have thought quite a bit about lures from years ago recently.  I'm speaking of lures that my Dad had purchased from the sporting goods aisle of drug, grocery (yes, that's no mistake), and department stores back in the 1960s and '70s.  I have their visions in my mind, though not always their names.  One that I remembered from my Dad's tackle box is Gapen's Hairy Worm.

Some background on this jig can be found in this link:  Recent Rambles - Bill Scifres, February 2006

So, inspired by this lure from yesteryear, I tied a few of my own Hairy Worms.

I plan to fish them in my local river and reservoir.  The bodies are chenille-wrapped and the tails are bobbed.  Length varies.  Also pictured are a few Jig-N-Worms with craft fur tails.  Each is tied on a 1/8-oz. ball head jig with a # 2 bronze hook.

The Color Purple

Tied a couple of purple jigs for largemouth bass.  I can't go fishing for them without purple lures in my tackle box.

Used LashMax yarn in place of hackle.  The bottom-right jig is a "bivisible" tied half-n-half purple and black.  Looking for a potential "slow fall" from that one.

Jigs are 1/8-oz. ball heads with # 2 hooks.

Yarn-Skirted Spinnerbaits

Put these together together today.  My first spinnerbaits.  Hope to fish these for smallmouth bass this spring.

Materials:

• LashMax Yarn - Caffeine
• Coats Trilobal Polyester Thread 40-wt. - Chona Brown
• Harbor Freight Powder Paints - red, black, & yellow
• Custom unfinished spinnerbaits
• Eyes made from hot glue, black acrylic paint, and tin foil
• Loctite Super Glue Gel to attach eyes
• Devcon 2 Ton Epoxy for topcoat
• Laker Ball Bearing Snap Swivels
• Hammered silver Colorado blades

The unfinished spinnerbaits weighed 1/8 and 3/16 of an ounce.  Each has a 1/0 hook.

Olive Naturals For Bass

Tied these bugger-styled jigs for bass.  I hope that the saddle hackles will slow their fall when cast and counting down.  Used marabou plume as the tail material because of its undulating action.

Materials:

• Wapsi Strung Rooster Saddles - olive/natural
• Orvis Marabou - olive
• Danville FW 210 +Plus+ Thread - olive
• A 1/8-oz. ball head jig with a #2 bronze hook
• Harbor Freight Powder Paint (2:1 yellow/matte black mix) - olive

Red Raider

Last night, I tied this red and black creature with a "Fish Head Jig" that was produced by a very fine jig maker hailing from Louisiana.  The jig's name, "Red Raider", came about while thinking up the jig's color scheme and about West Texas, Lubbock, and  Texas Tech University, specifically.  Why not?  Makes sense, right? ;)

Materials:

• A 3/16-ounce "Fish Head" jig fitted with a 2/0 black nickel sickle hook
• Boot lace
• Darice Craft Fur - red and black
• Caron Glimmer Yarn - black
• LashMax Yarn - Black Star
• Gudebrod 6/0 Fly Tying Thread - black, 125 denier
• Devcon 2 Ton Epoxy
• Orbit Powder Paint - clear
• Harbor Freight Powder Paint - matte black and red
• Eyes are homemade from black acrylic paint, tin foil, and hot glue

And, in case you might be thinking so, Bobby Knight had nothing to do with this. :) ;)