Jig tieing

I am new to tieing. Just started this year and I have been tieing jigs. I need some good paterens for tieing some jigs. I done a serch on this board and came up empty. Any help would be great. Thanks all.

Chris

Skip48 should come to your rescue.

Also, what would be some good color combinations for crappie? I have some ideas, but an expert opinion will never get turned down. THANKS!

Zac

My two favorites that work on Crappie and trout are the “John Deere” and the “Beadspread”.

The John Deere
1/100 to 1/124 jig #10
Head painted John Deere green with Yellow eye.
Body: Olive Ultra Chanile
Tail: Olive Marabou - Short and sparse.

Beadspread
1/100 to 1/124 jig #10
Head painted Cream color
Body: Cream Ultra Chanile
Tail: Cream marabou - Short and sparse

I like to fish them under a float or as a dropper. Sometimes I match the color with the thread and other times I use red. Doesn’t really seem to make much of a difference.

Greg

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Some folks like the micro-jigs but I usually just use the mini-jigs like 1/32 oz. mostly on an ultra light spinning rod for Specks. If the current is stronger, I sometimes use larger ones but I like the 1/32s mostly. I like white and also the green chartreuse commercial ones with marabou tails. I also tie a 1/32. Plain round head, pearl or iridescent braid body, and a gray tail of hackle barbs or small marabou. This one works well by itself on occasion. But I sometimes tip the jigs with live minnows also either under a float or just straight line depending on where the Specks are holding in the water column.

That is because this is a fly tying board and not a jig tying board. You can PM me if you want some Jig info.

Skip

Skip has a point. But I don’t think the Moderator Denny or the Administrators would get too upset if we go OT (Off Topic) only once in a while.:wink:

My suggestion is that you spend a little time serching the fly archives on this site. Any fly pattern that has a cone head, bead chain or dumb bell eyes is basicly a jig. Then too many streamer patterns transfer well to jigs and may help you get inspired to create the next hot ticket pattern that finds its way back to the fly tyeing vices. Ideas dont recognize limits only people do. :cool:

I have had good luck with an all black jig.
Head: lacquered black
Thread: black
Tail: black bucktail
Thorax: black hackle, over-sized and wet grade

Note that most lacquers that you buy for jig heads are not nearly as durable as Sally Hansen’s Hard as Nails (SHHN), so use clear SHHN over your color to protect it. Let your color dry AND CURE for a couple of days before coating with SHHN.

Of course a lot of folks (self included) believe in bright day - bright fly, dark day - dark fly. You can take the basic pattern and change colors (white, yellow, chartreuese, olive, pink, red/white would be good starts). You can vary the size (weight) of the head. You can change tailing materials and use marabou or artic fox, neither of which is nearly as stiff as bucktail.

I do like the movement of having a thorax or collar of over-sized, soft hackle. It gives a great deal of movement to the jig. The stiff bucktail, not tyed too thick, gives added form.

To keep OT for fly-tying, one could do any or all of the above with beadheads, coneheads, barbell eyes, &/or beadchain eyes on some of the shorter, streamer and wet fly hooks.

Good luck,
Ed

Chris I’m sorry that some feel a fly tied on a jig is not a true fly for this forum. Thats like some frown on trolling. They?5{rn—they are sometimes called bottom flies. Many patterns can be found by Google Jig Flies–and Jig Fly Patterns.

One of the best is http://www.warmwaterflytyer.com

At the bottom it shows Bottom Fly and Jig Patterns BILL

Good to see that my dad’s favorite colors are in full use in the flytying realm. My dad painted everything (woodworking, metalworking, etc.) with the 4 colors of Farmall Red, John Deere Green, Bombadier Yellow and Ford Black…everything else in his opinion was not requried.

I still use alot of these colors in my flytying, guess I like them also. Gotta try that John Deere one for the bass.

Dwight

Here are a few photos taken from czechnymphs.com:

and flies tied on what we call “ant hooks” over here:

Thanks everybody for the help. Sorry if talking about jig tieing upset anybody. From what I have seen jig tieing is easier than fly tieing so I thought it was good to learn with jigs first. Thanks again for the responses.

Chris

No one is upset, I think they all tie in together. We can talk jigs or flies either one. Streamer hair is also a good substitute for jig tails and I also found some trilobal antron chenille on feathercraft the other day that looks good. I ordered 6 spools of the stuff, you should check it out.

I like red/chart, black/chart, purple/white, pink/pearl. I dont have much luck on blue around here.

Our best bluegill/redear patterns are tied on 1/60, 1/80, and 1/100 lead heads and pink heads seem to be a better choice for some reason but chart will work.

i just make a simple bead eye fly (jig ) its quite simple

take a size 10- 8 hook figure eight a set of bead eyes on what ever size you want .
then tie in some marabou whip finish and coat head.

you could also use crystal flash or add crystal flash to the marabou .

yellow or white work good for crappies. so dose chart or pink .

My wife loves the little black and yellow marabou jigs I tie for her. She’s caught bluegill, trout, bass, and even a good size catfish.

For a simple and effective jig/weighted fly, I see very little difference as both are to sink to the fishes level, tie a Wooly Bugger to the jig hook, or a nymph or wet fly pattern. Any weighted pattern can make a good jig if it works on that sized hook and attracts the fish you’re after. I guess this opinion makes me a heritic, LOL. Personally, I like my wets and nymphs to sink very slooowly because I’m an Alabama Bluegill & Shellcracker fly fisherman and the big Bream around here like slow moving prey, at least most of the time. Ralph