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Playing with different profiles tonight out of necessity. Out of my good long fiber black craft fur and wanted to make some walleye jigs to try out tomorrow (actually tonight, Thursday night) night. Watched a guy with some youtube videos talk about liking to use bright head colors with dark...

First panfish of the year for me. Upground reservoir. Caught some on drop spoon and waxworm, others on kiptail hair jigs. Couldn't keep 2 lines in the water for a lot of the time. There was a cold cold cold shift of wind out of the North when i first got there but it layed down and ended up...

Just wanted to give warning.......... i am going to attempt to upgrade the forum software either Friday or Saturday.  There were a couple of minor software components and plugins that were no longer working, but now it looks like the main new member registration (recaptcha) is no longer...

Have been painting up a few bigger heads to tie up for walleye jigs. A friend on another forum wanted some and told him i would barter some away.  Sure is fun to paint these flat side heads.  Lots of room to work.  Whole lotta glitter involved along with pearl pigments and mica powder.  The 2...

The bitter cold has sure set in and is making a nice base layer of ice.  Made it out on the early ice for a quick trip on Tuesday and will be getting out again this weekend.  This work thing sure gets in the way of my fishing.  Got an invite to hit up a private highway borrow pit this weekend...

Had 2 separate people ask me to make them some deep water walleye hair jigs as gifts so got working on a few.  Weights range from 3/8 oz and up.  Lots of different colors of powder paint went into the heads but all the tails are primarily craft fur with some flash mixed in.

Cold, COld, COLd, COLD, COLD! temps are in the forecast around my region for at least the next week.  Has me thinking about walking on water soon.  The most likely first available ice (shallow water upground reservoir) has a good population of crappie......... and the the average size has been...

Sat down at the vise tonight for the first time in a long long time. It sure felt good.  :cool:  Felt like i did more planning and searching for materials than tying, but did finally wrap one up.  This is a 1/8th oz tin/bis head tied with a #2 Mustad 3366 hook as a stinger.  I used an 'Arkie...

New here..... i'd like to introduce myself.  :D  Whats every one been up to? The long hot summer looks like just a memory now, at least up in the Norther half of the USA.  Frost on the windows in the morning and cold rainy Friday night football games has the walleye coming up in the shallows on...

Tied up a jig 2 nights ago and headed out after dark last night so tied it on.  Managed to catch the big fish of the night with it.... a 22: walleye.   :cool:  Is a 1/8 lead free head with a white and a yellow bunny strip long out the back end and some flash sandwiched between.  Put a big fluff...

Making sure the mic is on here in the forum.  Where did everyone go? I've been tying plenty of small jigs lately for spring crappie and bluegill.  Have already given away a handfull to a couple friends.

In recent years, my busier work schedule has led me to neglect my favorite little river that runs literally across the street from my shop.  I am hoping this year i can get out a lot more often and get back to my quick lunch break trips.  It probably doesn't need to be restocked, but thinking...

Been messing with this pattern off and on after being shown how productive they can be through the ice.  Have a variety of hook sizes used between #10 and #6 and also a range of different brass cyclops beads & tungsten beads sizes.  I think these will do really good on the crappie during spring...

Little bit of a hodge-podge of jig sizes and intended species here.  Some that were meant to be ice fished (never happened because of very limited ice here this year), some for walleye and some targeting bass.   These are the ice jigs.... but all made with brass cyclops beads on jig hooks and...

Tied up a couple belly spin type lures on 1/16's with over size Gami hooks, but used clipped sections of the safety pin style spinners.  Just put a bend in the very end that i wrapped around the shank and then wrapped it all tight with thread.  Think they turned out pretty good.  Hopefully get...

Finally raised enough stink that my web host assured me there should be no more database errors.  I talked with a couple different techs over the weekend and they seem to think it is fixed now.  I had a few of the errors on Sunday, but was honestly not on for very long and never logged in to my...

Got in a quick trip up to the new reservoir here in Attica on Saturday.  Fished from 3:30 to 5:00 and found the fish very willing to play.  Started out with a small 1/64 leadfree black/chart/pink kip jig with waxworm tip fixed about 6'-7' below a weighted float.  Caught bluegill on my first...

Starts outs with a very light dusting of mica powder/clear coat, not full coverage.  Only get it hot enough to stick a very thin layer.  Tap on a darker color on the dorsal side.  Straight black works, but i have a couple different dark gold pearl powders that i like and then just a slight tap...

Tied these with just the general clouser pattern in mind.... short under wing and longer over wing.  The lightest one (green/yellow tail) is 1/16 with over size hook, several 1/8 (white/red & white/orange) are in the mix, and biggest (yellow/red tail) weighs in at 3/16.  They will get down...

Would this be a school..... or a herd?  Maybe a drey?  Jig should be a nice compact smallmouth snack.  I used the squirrel tail 'wing' as double duty to give a little profile shape and also as a functioning guard to help keep the scrubber craws from fouling around the hook.  First attempt using...