2 Kinds of Craws

[smalljaw]

Here are 2 craw style jigs I decided to do as I was working on cutting some magnum zonker strips down. I thought about the craw jigs and how many different ways there are to make them so I tied up two styles that I like. The top jig is a 3/32oz walleye head painted green pumpkin, it has a tail or I should say "claws" made from olive and blue with black bars rabbit strips and the body is tied with the same color rabbit strips and I call it a craw style jig but it is more like a split tail minnow as the claws are tied in on the back of the jig in a tail fashion. The bottom jig is a 3/32oz walleye head painted brown, it has orange and brown bucktail tied in for the mustache, orange and yellow with black bars rabbit strips tied in for the claws and brown chenille for the body. These aren't near as good as what a few of the guys on here tie but they are very effective.

 

[yellowjacket]

looks great

 

[Fatman]

Very nice SJ!!!

 

[creekychub]

those look sweet, bronzebacks beware!!

 

[StumpHunter]

Nice..

 

[Jighead76]

Nice looking jigs. I keep going back to look at them. It makes me want to try rabbit out.

 

[AtticaFish]

...makes me want to try rabbit out.

You will be happy when you do and possibly never go back to marabou.

Lovin' that green craw!!!!

The yellow (orange) you might have to fight of the catfish before you find the smallmouth.

 

[smalljaw]

Nice looking jigs. I keep going back to look at them. It makes me want to try rabbit out.

Rabbit is nice to work with and there is a lot of colors some regular single colors, some bright colors and then there is 2 toned colors and barred colors, anything you want. 2 kind of rabbit strips you need to know, regular cut and cross cut, regualr cut is great for tails as the fur is pointing in the same direction as the leather strip, you can use for bodies too but only patterns you want to be really bushy. Cross cut zonkers make fantastic bodies, I don't like using them for tails because the fur points away from the leather strip so it doesn't hang right on the back of a jig but as I said, very uniform bodies and on barred rabbit the black bars end up with a layered effect, and the action in the water is fantastic.

 

[Pup]

Very nice jigs SJ. Looking fine for the basses. :t-up:

 

[bombora]

Littlemouth you know how sometimes you can just picture how a jig's gonna move in the water? With these just know they gonna move so good. Love em.