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Warm weather is finally here, and around here that means skeeters. We had an unusually long cold snap in January that reduced their starting numbers quite a bit, but they are beginning to bounce back. One of them got me on the leg while I was outside last week. I still have part of a can left...

I don't think I've ever seen anyone post a pic of an all black jig here. 100% black just gets no love. But they work! I've been doing some night fishing on my last few trips out for crappie, and absolutely hammering them on all black jigs. I use new age or estaz type chenille and krystal flash...

Did some tying with crosscut strips over the past few nights. I hope I can try these out this weekend!

This time we're going to have a jigs swap for those little dudes with attitudes. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to tie your best sunfish jig. Use any materials or head style/size you think will get bit. Entry will close May 9th! Please have jigs in the mail by the 20th...

Lifefly-Outdoor is an eBay seller located in China. The seller has graciously offered us group buy prices on lots of 5 or more. Considering the amount of interest, I don't think we'll have a problem hitting that mark. See this thread for details...

I picked up about two dozen 1/16 and 1/8th ounce wobble heads in a trade. They're the same as the spoon shaped jig heads Cabela's sells. I have never fished with these heads before. Anyone have any suggestions on what to use to dress them and how to fish them?

I was looking up articulated jigs online, and I came across a fly pattern called the circus peanut. It's basically two wooly buggers attached together by a loop of mono. The original pattern uses dumbbell eyes, so I figured it would also work on a jig head. I had all the materials on hand, so I...

Rosey's 007 silver sure makes some awesome minner heads.

I want to tie some more craw jigs for bass, so I'm looking for either 1/8 or 1/4 ounce football jig heads with a size 1/0 to 3/0 hook. Powder painting and tying around a jig with the weed guard installed is a pain, so I'd like to add it later. I'll consider other weedless styles if you don't...

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Took my first stab at a crawdad imitation last night, and here are the results. The local craws range from reddish brown to dark olive. The claws are rabbit zonkers. I wanted to keep them from coming together during the retrieve, so I tied a clump of brown bear in the middle for antenna. Made...

I'm sure we've all seen the hair and dubbing combs that cost $15 at the fly shop and $3 at the cosmetics counter labeled as mustache and eyebrow combs. Here's one that really takes the cake, though... I was at Fred Meyer's this evening and decided to check the fishing aisle to see if they had...

So I bought a pound of 200% gloss clear coat powder from Rosey's. A couple of the other paints I bought aren't as shiny as I would like. What's the best way to make them glossy and smooth without causing drips and runs? As an experiment, I painted 10 heads and clear coated 5 of them by dipping...

Like a lot of people here, I bought a few pounds of paint from the Roseys' sale. It came in bags, so I was looking for some containers to transfer small amounts. I went to the local Dollar Tree hoping to find some small containers, thinking they'd be 2 or 3 to a package if I could find them at...

For those of you that like UV, Steelhead Stalkers sells UV Yarn. It's wool roving with UV dye. It's made for tying yarn balls and corky and yarn drift fishing rigs for steelhead, but I imagine it would also work well for jigs. They sell it in stores out here, but you can also buy it off their...

I was going through my stuff and found a couple of packages of mallard flank. I didn't like how every time I opened the package a ton of fuzz would fly out, so I separated out all the feathers and trimmed the fuzz. Ended up with around 20 or so feathers under 2" long with barbs too short to go...

You've just got to see this... http://video.disney.com/watch/how-to-hook-up-your-home-theater-4be387e52d43da0e1266b068 I about lost it when the styrofoam peanuts came out.

I've always wanted to learn how to make those nice two-tone woven chenille bodies. I looked up some tutorials online, but somehow it never seemed to click for me looking at still pictures. I couldn't keep track of what each strand was doing. I found this video, and it turns out it's not so...

I like Crappie Nibbles and never go fishing for panfish without them, but they tend to melt off the hook after awhile even if you let them dry out a bit to toughen up. You can't stuff them inside the jig like you can with a tube. For salmon and steelhead, scent is very important because the...

I picked up a brown rabbit fur scarf on ebay intending to use for jigs. It's made of hide strips joined end to end and wound through a knit backing. I ended up with around two hides worth of really nice zonkers for about the price of a couple of packages of four hide strips. The interesting...