did up some for a swap:
1/32 oz curley tails on ultra lite equip use to be my favorite, with the flyrod hope the micro jig can match it.
like to see any of your microjig patterns>
I have tried a small jig on the flyrod before. All I can say is be prepared to duck in a hurry. Those suckers hurt coming of the back of your head.
Nice jigs by the way.
Who has time for stress when there are fish to catch.
Nick
casting with a bit of a sidearm helps some, but boy do the bang the canoe if you’re a bit late on the fore cast. Otherwise, not much difference than Clousers, Gill Busters or any of the other front-weighted flies. Nice looking flies. JGW
Yep. I do use them sometimes. Don’t have a pic of one but I do basically the same thing as you on a 1/32 oz. (mini) on the ultra light or smaller ones (micro) on the fly rod usually without the hackle collar. I use some gray marabou or gray hackle barbs for the tail and pearl braid body. That’s all. I don’t even paint the head. Specks especially go for them 
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Robert B. McCorquodale
Sebring, FL
“Flip a fly”
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Do you all tie on the jig hooks so that the materials are on the side of the hook opposite the eye…as in the pictures?
and if there is any interest, smaller sizes, 1/64th and 1/128 oz. are available.
RRhyne56
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I depends on whether the fly is “sidded”
If you did a nymph with a wing case the wing case needs to be on the ‘gape’ side of the hook since that will be ‘up’ when the micro is used. The legs need to be on the other side.
Sometimes tying “upside down” is aggravating since the hook point seems gets in the way more often. the vise jaws can be a problem too since they are now on the part of the hook where you may have to tie something (tail)
If you are doing a pattern which is non- dirctional (like a wooly bugger) it would not make any difference how you held the micro in the vise.
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There was a swap last year for plastic-using flies…yours below would’ve fit right in. A couple of folks in the swap used traditional ultra-light bodies (but not the jig heads).
If you want to see that thread, here’s the link:
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Page 2 has a step by step tutorial from nowindknots on building the fly he tied for the swap. There should also be a link to a step by step for the fly I tied (but I didn’t create that tutorial).
Nice looking flies. How well do they work for you?
I know some guys that fish the mini-jigs in still water for trout, under a big indicator.
Too much like worm and bobber fishing for me, but they do very well with it.
“Although prequalifed by virtue of their brain size, trout have no politics.”
J.A.Kassane
zzdruid:
I use mini-jigs, as we call them, at Bennett Springs quite a lot. (sizes 1/80, 1/100, or 1/120)
What do you use to paint the heads? I have found that jig head paint, after a day or two of hard fishing, quickly chips or flakes off. I use fingernail polish, coated with another topcoat of clear fingernail polish. This application makes the jigs nearly indestructible.
The only 2 problems that I’ve had are: 1.Finding the right color of polish (a few local patterns call for some tough-to-find colors) and
2. Making myself waltz down that fingernail polish asile at Wal Mart.
zzdruid,
I follow you and that’s why I asked. Aren’t your flies sided…looks like wings are on the nongape side? I’m fairly sure the fish won’t care but I was curious.I like the flies
I use them sometimes for trout, but only on my ultra-lite spinning rid. My Berkley Cherrywood casts them far enough for the streams around here. They work good most of the time.
Semper Fi!
the only positional thingy is that the rabbit tail is under the krystal in the “fished” position. The pic may be missleading as there is no wing per sey but a soft hackle colar which is evenly spread around the hook shaft.
hope I understood your question.
I coated the head with sally hansen’s , then testors model paint, then more sally hansen’s, son’t know how durable it will be
thanks for the plastic swap info ,i’ll study it, haven’t got to fish these yet, they are for a swap on another board.
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I tried 'em, couldn’t really see the advantage over a beadhed bugger tied loose, except that the bugger is a heckuva lot easier to cast.
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I agree with RS; why make life difficult??
Donald
ZZ - Nice looking jigs. You ask if I use them. The answer is no, though I have tried them. I just don’t like the way they cast and the cost of buying the jigs. When I want the fly to sink I place a small #8 shot a few inches up the leader. That does the trick.
Tim Anderson
To answer RStouff and beadleech from my own POV. I use them in heavy riprap areas with heavy current (both criteria) to minimize the amount of hook changes I have to do. Thinking of incorporating tube flies as well, but not there yet, and I am afraid that if I loose a hook I will loose the tube fly as well. If I am fishing heavy rip rap areas without a heavy current, or lower current times, I will use a jig hook with a little wire to get it to ride point up. I am not sure that the jig hooks tend to hook up less than flies tied to ride point up do, but they seem to drift nicely.
You can now get bismuth based micro jigs now, so it fits with my lead free fishing motto of late.
The reason you need too use these in 1/80-1/124 sizes, instead of a bead head woolly bugger; is that a micro jig won’t twist your leader, where a WB will. Also they do get down deep alot faster than a BHWB. Also, Also, they are easier to tie, all you need is a jig head, some thread and some marabou 
, they will out fish a woolly bugger any day. Why do you think they [url=http://www.czechnymphs.com/tying/tying_2004_002.html:e916b]banned[/url:e916b] the use of micro jig in international fly fishing competitions?
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Black and yellow
Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you’re swinging. Duke Snider
idabelangler,
Good info…wonder how they would work on big bluegill?