Honest critique of a new jig

[smalljaw]

I'm sorry the pic is bad but I'm hoping you can see enough to give me an honest assesment of this jig style. It is a bucktail, it has some bright orange silicone strands tied in but I found something I decided to try and it also helps me use all my material. What I tried was making a "muddler" style collar, I saw some jigs at a tackle store that were done like this and from tying bucktail I know that the ends flair so I just cut some short hair off of a bucktail and tied it in on the collar and then trimmed it up. Let me know what you think, hinestly, I have some thick skin so if it is bad let me know, thanks.

 

[steeliejim902]

Looks great! If you need a field tester, shoot me a pm!

 

[Fatman]

Looks good.

 

[SaltyBuckster]

That will work out just fine.Good amount of hair.Not too much.But enough to make it bouyant to give it some action while under water.Has been a good jig for the river in the rapids.

 

[Radtexan]

Aint a thing wrong with that one...I started to say need to clean the eye's out,but no you got that too..

Might give sickle hooks a try if you havent yet..

 

[toadfrog]

There is a trick I learned for tying the exposed buck tail collar . Now how do I explain it . First hold the clump of buck tail between your index finger and thumb . Pull the longest hairs out then add them back in to the stack until you have a paint brush effect to your stack . Then cut to length . While you still are holding the stack after the cut square end it should look like you have corners at the cut line top and bottom of the held stack . Slightly clip these corners off, place the hair on the shank take two loose wraps and pull tight . This should make the collar stand out and be perfectly round . finish building the tie off. Don't know if this makes any sense but if you can learn it it will enhance the look of a jig . Not that there is anything wrong with your jig . It s a good looking jig . It just struck me I don't think I ever mentioned this before .

 

[AtticaFish]

Very cool - they WILL catch. Love the paint job, simple but what i try to shoot for myself.

There was an In-Fisherman article a little while back (early spring 2012 maybe?) talking about using a flared/cut collar like you did. The writer explained how you could use these jigs as a slow motion, do-nothing jig and catch LOTS of fish. Theory was to have a consistant shape from front to back so the water had little effect on the over-all apperance other than sliming it down as you worked the jig. The writer was using them as slow drifted jigs over 'fishy' structure...... I tied a few myself to mimic what i read and they were amazingly effective on smallmouth in cold water in the river i fish. As the temps warmed, i switched up to more agressive styles and techniques (spins & jerks) but will switch back to that style for early spring fishing ------ or some mid winter fishing if the temps stay moderate like they did last year.

 

[redear]

I really like it and it should be a winner for faster water smallmouth.

 

[StumpHunter]

Nice bucktail jig.

 

[BucktailJiger]

Looks good to me

 

[Charlie2]

Looks good to me

Same here. I find no fault whatsoever. Go fish with it. C2