marginal man
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Here are a couple more old jigs. The original Crawford pattern was called "Barred Rock." There were two versions out, "Yellow Barred Rock" and "Natural Barred Rock." Pretty easy to guess which is which from the picture. These appear to be marabou of some type, but I'm not that familiar with specific materials. No description that I've found, but I did read where Jack stated, "I use a Du Pont acrylic lacquer on my Barred Rock jigs. All the rest of my jigs have a special pearlized finish that really gives a head a high glossy sheen."
These particular jigs are actually from a time point when Mister Twister was producing them under the "Nature Jigs" name. They held pretty close to all the original patterns from what I can tell, though I can't say if they stuck with all the same materials and prep that Jack used/did when he was tying them. Jack did tie them on Perfection heads, which he stated was far and away his most popular jig head, and Mister Twister did the same. The Nature Jigs were actually done under the name "Mister Jigs" and not Mister Twister. That name was filed for in 1979 and registered in 1981. It was cancelled in 2002, likely along with Mister Twister's venture into hair jigs. First use anywhere was listed as Oct. 01, 1977, and you can see a small pic of an ad from a 1977 magazine depicting this. As I mentioned, Gapen's World of Fishing was involved somehow from about 1975 on for at least a couple years. I hope to track down more specifics on that at some point.
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These particular jigs are actually from a time point when Mister Twister was producing them under the "Nature Jigs" name. They held pretty close to all the original patterns from what I can tell, though I can't say if they stuck with all the same materials and prep that Jack used/did when he was tying them. Jack did tie them on Perfection heads, which he stated was far and away his most popular jig head, and Mister Twister did the same. The Nature Jigs were actually done under the name "Mister Jigs" and not Mister Twister. That name was filed for in 1979 and registered in 1981. It was cancelled in 2002, likely along with Mister Twister's venture into hair jigs. First use anywhere was listed as Oct. 01, 1977, and you can see a small pic of an ad from a 1977 magazine depicting this. As I mentioned, Gapen's World of Fishing was involved somehow from about 1975 on for at least a couple years. I hope to track down more specifics on that at some point.
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