Preparing for Spring Thaw

It's been a long, cold winter here. Ice has been on the lakes since the end of December and it's still on. The weather forecast is finally starting to look up and I've been tying up a few to pass the time . Here's some that I did this past few days. Some float n fly jigs and some boolies, mainly 1/16 and 1/32. View attachment 1View attachment 2View attachment 3

Here's more that I put in boxes already. Boolies, float n fly and hardbody's and more.. View attachment 4View attachment 5View attachment 6

I been wondering what you've been up to! Scared you done got stuck in some resin or something! Killer boxes O jigs.

Quack quack! Excellent work, sir.... as always. Kinda hard to steer away from those duck jigs when they work so well, isn't it?

Do like lookin at your jigs... Nice work.

Nicely done Jim!

Very nice.

Looking real good!

That's great-looking fish candy in your boxes.

Thanks everyone. Winter has been here way to long. I added two hobbies to keep busy. One working with resin molds and recently started rock tumbling after buying two tumblers, rocks, grit and everything else. It's supposed to be in the 60's by early next week so might knock some holes in the ice around a local lake dock Saturday.. I'm not standing on the ice though. Those duck jigs have been awfully good to me over the years and tied some 1/64 darts with #10 sickles tonight. Probably have enough to last about 150 years.

Awesome set of tyes JIM!! Looks like you been keeping busy over the winter.

Great paint & ties Jim! Looks like you're set!

Nice work Jim, as always. I need to get busy tying myself. Think I'll try some of that duck flank myself.

All look amazing as usual. Oh what big eyes you have grandma....

Lake's here are finally ice free. It got up to 82 today. It's 70 degrees here right now and is supposed to snow starting around 3 am. That's a big drop in a short time. Crazy weather but at least tested a few baits today. As usual, a 1/64 duck jig on a dart head accounted for most of the fish, mostly gills up to 8 inches. I didn't catch many but it was great to get out.

JUNGLEJIM1 said:

Lake's here are finally ice free. It got up to 82 today. It's 70 degrees here right now and is supposed to snow starting around 3 am. That's a big drop in a short time. Crazy weather but at least tested a few baits today. As usual, a 1/64 duck jig on a dart head accounted for most of the fish, mostly gills up to 8 inches. I didn't catch many but it was great to get out.

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You sure you don't live in Texas? Sounds like Texas weather!