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Definitely been going through some rabbit lately, lot's of confidence when fishing these. Catching some this year but nothing special, yet. It's been colder than normal this year and winter isn't over yet, supposed to hit 0 Degrees in a couple days. I keep tying to keep my sanity through these...

Some new baits I've been making since I haven't been posting pics for awhile.

Right now I'm catching mostly bluegill, crappie and trout. Used a tree branch to break ice around dock at local park lake and the small crappie and gills were biting. Had the whole lake to myself.

Hadn't used these in awhile even though they are productive. Made some up during the last cold spell. These weigh 1/16-3/16 with #4 - 1/0 hooks. Glow eyes in some with a bunny tail and used glow chenille twisted together with some baitfish color chenille.

I agree that lure details matter. When I paint jigs I use colors fish see every day in the forage and bait fish they consume. Typical jig is painted with 3-4 colors. Except for ball head jigs all my jigs have eyes . My favorite eyes look white but actually glow in the dark. They make my jigs...

Been using swim baits a bunch this year. I added blades to a few. This one was made by cutting an insert for another mold in half, bending the cut end so it would stay in mold while pouring. After painting I added a #2 willow blade, split ring and roller swivel. This bait is 1/4 oz and was...

Wow, beautiful fat smallies. Days like that you never forget. I don't fish smallies like I used too.

I caught the white bass my last trip to local river, just under 3#. Hair jigs catch everything depending on size. Mostly tying baits with fox lately, even caught two grass carp with them a couple weeks ago.

I've been making these almost three years and yes, they do catch fish. Main colors resemble bait fish like bluegill , green sunfish, etc. that bigger fish eat. When I tie I use similar colors in the jigs.

Haven't posted in awhile, thought I'd show some of the recent jigs I've been painting.

The middle picture jigs were tied with opossum, bear and hand dyed saddle hackle.

The Victory hooks work ok on the panfish side of things but for bigger fish like bass and hybrid stripers I have more confidence in Gamakatsu, Owner and Mustads. Still afraid to use the more expensive Victory hooks after breaking several at the hook eye. May have been a bad batch but I won't be...

I recently got this mold for soft plastics but I took one look and knew it would take a 90 degree hook so poured some of those as well. Tied some 1/8 on a #1 Mustad Ultrapoint hook. Shad and bluegill pattern for starters. Like getting two molds for the price of one.