An attempt at a couple more.

[smalljaw]

The top jig is a 1/8oz ball head painted black. I tried doing a Canadian jig with a bigger tail and I don't like it but maybe it will be better in the water. Anyway, I tied in 2 brown hackle feathers for the tail andthen I tied in some burnt orange and black varigated chenille along with a piece of thread intertwined with flashabou accent. I tied the hackle up to the head and then palmered the chenille up to the head, tied it in and palmered the two hackle feathers back to the base and then secured it with the thread and flash up through the body and then tied it off at the head to finish. The bottom jig is a 3/32oz walleye head painted chartreuse, I tied in olive green craft fur on the top and used orange for the sides and chartreuse on the bottom. I did this in bucktail thread neck fashion and then use a quick coat lure marker to make the bars, the perch jig thread inspired me to try one.

 

[AtticaFish]

You will like how the hackle jig looks in the water. I have some that look pretty close to that and they do well to catch fish.

Only 'critique' i might add is that if you have the room (hook gap) to fatten up the body, i would plump it up a little. FEED that jig and make it look like it is so fat and dumb, that it needs to be put out of its misery.

 

[Fatman]

SJ

Great looking ties!!!!! Only if you keep tying all these new patterns you better look into a rolling cart to save on the back!!!!!!!LOL

 

[smalljaw]

Thanks guys! AtticaFish, I've been using the walleye style heads with the size 2 hooks for awhile and those fill out nice with a single medium chenille but on the ball head with the 1/0 hook I should have used heavier chenille or double wrapped what I was using.

Fatman, I don't think I'll hit the river as the Hurricane was forecast 2 days after we planned our trip and so now the river is really high and really muddy, and unless it stays around this temp for another 2 weeks I doubt I'll get to go. So with no trip in the immediate future I'll keep filling boxes and by next season I'll have enough to fill my neighbors' kids box, he caught his biggest pickeral ever on a 1/16oz jig made with palmered black marabou with silver tinsel chenille that I gave him and now he is hooked on using my jigs!! He wants me to teach him along with my grandson during the winter.

 

[StumpHunter]

Two good tyes. Your perch jig looks good, nice work.

 

[Pup]

Good-looking ties SJ.

Your perch jig reminds me that it's about time to tie Float-N-Fly. :jig:

 

[Fatman]

Better to stay safe!!!! and kudo's for bringing two more aboard the tying wagon!!!