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"Jigs"
By:
Matt Baggett
Jigs
Over the years I've used just about every style of crappie
jig their is for just about every species of fish that can
be found in a small south Texas pond. I've even caught trout
off of them in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and as far north as the
Cowichan River, British Colombia, Canada! I have caught
herring for salmon in Canada, and piggy perch for Specs On
the Texas coast! I even caught Redfish and a Sheepshead on
the coast with my jigs. But my main focus with these
colorful jigs is the hard hitting, line sucking, Deep frying
crappie
.
I have been tying my own jigs for 3 years now and I do it
for one reason and only one reason, it's fun! I like to take
a bunch of feathers and yarn that to anyone else would look
like a colorful pile of junk, and make it into a funky
pattern that will entice even the weariest of crappie, white
bass, or blue gill. Many People enjoy watching a good movie
or maybe a basketball game, but me I tie new jigs, fish,
hunt, and trap. That is what I do during my spare time.
After school I come home and just reach into my jig tying
box and what ever I pull out, I make into a jig. I have even
cut some of my cat's hair off to tie a jig! I do it because
I love it. I love going to a lake fishing beside all these
guys drowning minnows, pitch out a jig and just start
hammering the crappie! I had a guy one time at Granger pay
me five bucks for my last jig because they were working so
well! I love when people look into my box see a few jigs and
tell me that only minnows are working, and then when I start
catching all the fish they all start pulling out their
wallets and asking for jigs! Last week I went to Granger and
caught a limit in under an hour with my new pattern, the
stump kicker. Everyone around me was using all sorts of
lures. Plastic jigs, hair jigs, minnows, there was even a
guy that was using spinners, but nobody did as good as me!
I keep coming up with new patterns many of which get
stripped down and never tried out. I will tie up thirty or
so jigs but only five or so will make it to my tackle box.
All the others will have everything cut off of them and the
hook reused on another jig. I mainly do just a body with a
tail but on occasion I like to rap a tail feather around the
body giving it that woolly bugger look (like the Stump
Kicker). My dad taught me how to tie jigs and flys when I
was eight but until 3 years ago I really didn't get into it.
Now I tie all the time.
I just started selling
my jigs and flies and If you would like to purchase some
just email me the color and quantity at
Matttheduckman@yahoo.com .
For the body I have:
chartreuse, pink, olive, and red. For the Marabou tail I
have: chartreuse, pink, olive, and flashabou. I can also
make deer hair tails in White and Yellow. I also have black
and brown bucktail for the tail.
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