Tri-Colored Sculpin

[smalljaw]

This is a hairy back sculpin and this time I used 3 colors in the tie and 4 if you count the head. It is a 3/32oz walleye head painted green pumpkin with black flake, I tied in a little bit of red bucktail and then a little bit of black over it. Once the black buctail was tied in I took some natural bucktail and tied it over the black and then I finished it off with black deer hair spun on the collar with some longer pieces tied to the bottom or back of the jig to give it the "hairy" part. I don't have good camera skills or a good camera so you can't really see it in the picture but the layering of the different colors on the head gives the jig a really nice mottled appearance and that type of color always seems to work pretty good.

 

[Fatman]

Nice tie there SJ!!!!!!!!!

 

[StumpHunter]

Looking good. You are all over the deer hair spinning! Nice.

 

[JUNGLEJIM1]

Very nice work with the deer hair.

 

[smalljaw]

Thanks guys, the deer hair work isn't that hard and I like the way is bulks up the top of the jig, it has the same profile in the water as a stone cat or sculpin because the spun hair doesn't compress and you can trim it to look the way you want it.

 

[Fatman]

Thanks guys, the deer hair work isn't that hard !!! YES it is!!!! LOL but I'll get it sooner or later

 

[smalljaw]

Thanks guys, the deer hair work isn't that hard !!! YES it is!!!! LOL but I'll get it sooner or later

Fatman, I said it before, you have some mad skills and you show it with not just the jigs but your flies too. I would never be able to tie those coachmans and I can't tie those pheasent tail nymphs either but you do them in a jig too and that is why I can't believe you have a hard time spinning deer hair. I bet it isn't you but the material, because all you need to do is put the clump of hair where you want it and make 2 loose wraps to hold it and then pull toward your chest with a constant pressure and the material will flair and look like a koosh puff ball. Once you do that you simply make another few wraps and the hair will spin so that it is all around the hook shank. Now what I like is you can do it in 2 steps if you don't have enough hair, for instance if I tie a clump in and I spin it and it seems sparse in a spot, I can take another clump and put it in the area that is sparse and then spin and what happens is it normally evens out. To make the hairy back I spin the collar and then trim and then tie on slight long deer hair and tie it in so that it flairs on the collar but the back is long so it just lifts and makes a nice full cape sort of and then I trim the collar again and whip finish and then I'll take it out of the vise and give it a final trim for the pieces I missed. I know you can do it because this is a piece of cake compared to what you do now with your flies and jigs.

 

[Fatman]

I have the Hairline deer belly combo pack which is for spinning, and I have some really nice elk, mule deer, sitka deer, norway reindeer, an lots of of deer hide back and belly. I know I need to learn it and spend lots of time with it.