HB Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 I've seen lots of jigs with "fuzzy" necks. Do you think it catches more fish than the standard style? Quote
River Rat316 Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 fishingskirts.com... Charles is a great guy and by far the best prices on skirt material Quote
The_Natural Posted January 23, 2009 Author Posted January 23, 2009 I'm going to try and shoot a short video on how I make them with the zip ties without using a normal skirt band first. This is the benefit of the zip ties. Wire tying provides a little 'cleaner' look; but you have to put the traditional rubber skirt band on first, and then tie the wire on. It's quite a bit more time consuming, and I saw no benefit over my zip ties. I've gotten to where I can trim the 'tag end' of the zip tie flush with the zip ties 'stopper'. I'll just have to show you. It isn't difficult at all...you'll be spitting out jig after jig in no time. It's been a couple of months since I made those, but I'll grab my jig box if you want to know what the mix of a certain jig is. I'm not a jig salesman, but I did sell some extras on the Texas Fishing Forum. This guy bought the jigs identical to the green pumpkin blue jigs in my pics, only I used a dark red highlight which matches the crawfish of this area. He sent me a PM recently.... "Hey, wanted to let you know, I fish the friday night tourney every friday on Lake Lewisville and tonight we won and had big bass (5.25lbs) which came on the jig I got from you..Thanks!!!! Just thought you might want to hear this..." It made me feel good, but I only make them for myself. If you plan on selling jigs, you need to pour your own heads or the profit margin isn't worth it. Also; I generally use 4 layers on my 'full' skirted jigs, and finesse jigs, which equates to 80 strands (full) and 40 (finesse). Quote
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