Sculpins

smalljaw

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Here are a couple of jigs I tied up trying to make in the same manner as my hairy back sculpins, the difference is instead of having short bucktail tied in the back of the jig giving it the hairy part, I tied a contrasting color of normal length bucktail and then tied a seperate collar of spun deer hair. The top jig is a 3/32oz walleye head painted black, it has red bucktail tied in on the top of the jig and black bucktail on the top and a collar of black deer hair to finish it off. The bottom jig is a 3/32oz walleye head painted green pumpkin with black flake, it has red bucktail tied around the entire jig and then I tied in natural bucktail that is a little bit shorter than the red and finished it off with a collar of spun brown deer hair.

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Lost Pole

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A lot of time went into those combos color-wise. It all clicks together. What is the target fish on those?>
And that spun deer hair looks great! tried the process the other night and I highly admire anyone with that much patience. Surgical type work
 

smalljaw

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Thanks all!! Lost Pole, the target fish are smallmouth bass and I made a similar jig a few months ago and I did really well with it so I've been tying these every now and again to keep my box full!!
 

JUNGLEJIM1

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Really nice ties. I've noticed that you are partial to the 3/32 heads.I have a few molds that have that size as well,good tweener size. I also like the 3/16 in a couple of my molds.
 

smalljaw

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JUNGLEJIM1 said:
Really nice ties. I've noticed that you are partial to the 3/32 heads.I have a few molds that have that size as well,good tweener size. I also like the 3/16 in a couple of my molds.

Thanks JJ1, the river I fish is really rocky and a lot of the spots I fish are less than 8' deep and during the late fall/winter and the winter/early spring the key to getting bites is a small profile fished slowly and sometimes a 1/8oz falls too fast and the 1/16oz is a little too slow to get to the bottom so the 3/32oz is perfect. I also like the 3/16oz and I make a silicone skirted finesse jig in that size and it serves a lot of duty, there are a lot of situation in which a 1/4oz jig is too heavy and a 1/8oz jig is too light.

 
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