Jig Skirts!

[Catt]

What y'all like?

Skirts with flakes

Skirts with tinsel

Skirts with flashbou

Skirts with colored tips

Skirts with layered colors

Personally I use em all & find no advantage one way or the other!

[Turtle135]

plain old dull round rubber in brown and black

p.s. - that is a Siebert Outdoors jig head with an Owner hook

[scaleface]

I use whatever .  I do prefer a little color change somewhere in the rig . Either two colored skirt or a different colored trailer . Like Turtle135 , black and brown combo has worked well .

[Cgolf]

I do a mixture of both flake and no flake, I just look at the color options before I order or craft a skirt and try to visualize what would match what I am trying to mimic the best. I haven't mixed tinsel type material in yet but may in the future. What may be more interesting is trying some EP fibres or some holo fusion from my fly tying stash, it may give the jig some more bulk. 

Attached are a few of my creations. The swim jigs are to match a spinnerbait that has worked well for me and perch. The other jigs are to match minnows, carp, perch, and the bucktail jigs were just fun. 

The obviously not bass jigs are examples of the materials I pull and may use in the future.

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2 hours ago, Turtle135 said:

plain old dull round rubber in brown and black

p.s. - that is a Siebert Outdoors jig head with an Owner hook

Nice, reminds me of the girl next door who looks good without makeup.

[A-Jay]

When fishing anything with a skirt, after a while you figure out what you like.  Also making you your own is just plain cheap and well beyond easy.  If I can do it - well let's just leave it at that. 

 Skirts for  Buzzbaits, Spinnerbaits, more recently chatterbaits, of course jigs are all now done in "A-Jay's Custom Bait & Tackle Shop" - 

For the mostly clear waters up here, my chatterbait & jig skirts are real basic.  They almost always start with a base of brown & or green pumpkin or Black & Blue  After that there may be a little lighter shade of those added, perhaps a hint of Barbwire silicone skirting material in watermelon, light pumpkin red or rusty Craw.

Spinnerbaits & buzzbaits skirts are even more basic - White, Chartreuse, or White & Chartreuse - last season I played around with my version of "Sexy Shad" ~ turns out I need to change the name of that one to  #shreddedbypike.

A-Jay

[Raul]

Well, 90% of the time I fish with plain black skirts ....... can´t tell you if it makes some difference because the rest is pretty much plain brown ( got a few silicone watermelon and green pumpkin but I seldomly tie them ).

[WRB]

About 25 years ago I discovered Barlows Tackle in Texas who offers every known jig skirt material and went crazy making jig skirts. Lots of fun and gets expensive, some worked great some not so good. Every year new materials come available and tempted to try em out.

There are several places to buy jig skirt materials today, Fishingskirts.com has some good sales for example.

I have settled on the natural silicone strips with barb wire patterns in crawdad colors, brown, purple, red, green and black in living rubber and bucktail hair....oh yes need a little flashabou now and then. Did I mention there is a shad bite now...where is my pearl, chartreuse, blue, lime green with copper flake?

CAUTION making jig skirts is addictive!

Tom 

[doyle8218]

6 hours ago, Catt said:

What y'all like?

Skirts with flakes

Skirts with tinsel

Skirts with flashbou

Skirts with colored tips

Skirts with layered colors

Personally I use em all & find no advantage one way or the other!

Agreed.

[Further North]

3 hours ago, A-Jay said:

When fishing anything with a skirt, after a while you figure out what you like.  Also making you your own is just plain cheap and well beyond easy.  If I can do it - well let's just leave it at that. 

 Skirts for  Buzzbaits, Spinnerbaits, more recently chatterbaits, of course jigs are all now done in "A-Jay's Custom Bait & Tackle Shop" - 

For the mostly clear waters up here, my chatterbait & jig skirts are real basic.  They almost always start with a base of brown & or green pumpkin or Black & Blue  After that there may be a little lighter shade of those added, perhaps a hint of Barbwire silicone skirting material in watermelon, light pumpkin red or rusty Craw.

Spinnerbaits & buzzbaits skirts are even more basic - White, Chartreuse, or White & Chartreuse - last season I played around with my version of "Sexy Shad" ~ turns out I need to change the name of that one to  #shreddedbypike.

A-Jay

Where does A-Jay's Custom Bait & Tackle Shop get the material for making skirts?

[Catt]

Barlow's Tackle is where I get mine!

[A-Jay]

1 hour ago, Further North said:

Where does A-Jay's Custom Bait & Tackle Shop get the material for making skirts?

47 minutes ago, Catt said:

Barlow's Tackle is where I get mine!

^^^^^^ X2 ~

Barlow's Tackle Mostly though I've been know to toss some random skeins in the cart from TW as well.

A-Jay 

[Further North]

Thanks - Looking at their site now and downloaded the catalog...I see some potential for crossover into fly tying here...

[Senko lover]

10 hours ago, Catt said:

What y'all like?

Skirts with flakes

Skirts with tinsel

Skirts with flashbou

Skirts with colored tips

Skirts with layered colors

Personally I use em all & find no advantage one way or the other!

Ditto

[Munkin]

Personally I go through fazes where my jigs have to be 6 colors but most of the time I keep things simple. GP, watermelon, brown, black, and maybe some orange in the square cut silicone skirting. When I want a bulkier jig I use Starflash skirts in black, brown, or some combination on the two. My favorite big bass skirt material was called hydro and it is no longer available so the skirts I have left generally only come out when money is on the line.

 

Allen

[Cgolf]

I tied three jigs with EP fibers and a quick test in the sink showed that they puffed, but nowhere near as much as a silicone skirt. This could be a bonus giving it a more of a finesse look. I do have the video of the jig in the sink out on Instagram, but I don't think I can link it here like you can a you tube video.