Circus peanut jig

[Shoemoo]

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 decided to give it a shot.



The hooks are size 2 so the whole thing is a little over 3" long, but I'm hoping it will work on bass and trout.

 

[Fatman]

Very nice Shoe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[redman]

Shoe will garentee you that it will take a bass or trout. It looks like a cross between a leech and a Woolly Caterpillar. Nice tie I know that it will take a few nice big Fat Slab Crappies down here. I like the flash and rubber legs. Think that I need to tie a couple in a size 8 for the big bream that will be bedding up in the next few weeks.

Redman

P.S I really like the name of the Jig. Circus peanuts are one of my all time favorite candy.

 

[Pepop]

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[quivira kid]

Galloup has a bunch of pretty cool streamer patterns. Well done!

 

[AndyLane]

:icon14::icon14: That looks very cool! I can definitely see that thing catching some nice bass and/or very Fat trout.

 

[AtticaFish]

Love the extended body - but my rocks might love it too. May have to tie a few just to give them a try - smallies in my area would not think twice about eating that - nice lookin jig.

 

[StumpHunter]

Awesome work Shoemoo Very nice tied jig and the crappie will hit that also. I have seen those jigs but we have a lot of trees under the water so I would hate to lose two jigs at once but wow, how could a fish not bite that!

 

[Jig Man]

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[Shoemoo]

Decided to tie up a few smaller ones in favorite crappie colors. These are a little over 2.5 inches. I don't think you can go much smaller unless you start substituting materials. Supposed to be warm and sunny all next week, so hopefully I will get to try them out on crappie next weekend.



Every year when the crappies start coming in shallow, I see some huge largemouth mixed in. We're talking bass in the 5+ range. I only see one or two actually caught, but last year someone got one that was pushing the state record. They don't seem to care for the small jigs people use for crappie, so I decided to tie up something bigger. I had some barred chartreuse magnum zonker strips and decided to make a perch imitation. So here it is, a jig version of Galloup's sex dungeon.



This reservoir gets a lot of tourneys and people toss everything but the kitchen sink at these fish, but they're are very wise and have probably seen it all before. I'm pretty sure they've never seen anything like this. I have to admit, if I catch one I'm looking forward to peoples' expressions when they ask what I got it on.

 

[redman]

Shoe don't kid yourself those big bass will hit a small crappie jig. Have been doing it these last two weeks. a 1/24 oz. on a #6 sickle hook. Yes you are right I got to give them something that they have not seen before. That bottom one just says killer to me. No self respecting bass would pass that one up. Now just hang on for the fight.

Redman

 

[Pup]

I like them. Reminds me a little of "pig boat" style flies.

Your pattern's being noted for inclusion to my personal jig boxes.

 

[eyecrosser]

Those should work great for both bass and gator trout. I bet walleye would have no problem sucking them in also. May have to give a few of those a try.

 

[smalljaw]

I know the smaillies I target will smash that, and it you get a lunker largemouth I doubt anyone would be surprised you got it on a jig fly!!!!!!! The reason those big largemouth are coming in is they are following the crappie, I see this a lot because the crappie will spawn and some will be more stressed than others, the stressed ones will end up being food for the largemouth. The bigger bass will do this when bluegills spawn too, they will stage at the first break into deeper water but occasionally they'll make a patrol sweep and just cruise just outside the spawning bed perimeters, pretty neat to watch nature in action!!