Homemade Hand Tied Jig Porn.........Let's see it.

[DoDFire]

 I have an addiction for hand tied hand made jigs and will tie anything that has a hook, Let's see your homemade hand tied creations........Here area few of the thousands I have tied.

6" and 1 oz. Gizzard Shad

1/4 oz. P-Nut head bucktail and living rubber

1/8 oz Foxtail

 

Modified Poison Tail Jig to free swing

1/4 oz. P-Nut head with living rubber

Modified Poison Tail jig

Sworming Hornets tied with craft hair.......killer in the fall on flats.

Drop shot hair fly

 

[YUT18]

An addiction is right.  I started making my own jigs last month to pass some time and to give me more options than what I can buy in stores.  After I got everything I needed to get started I quickly realized that what I had wasn't enough.  I had to have more mold options, more hooks, skirts, paint, and lets not forget some eyes. My addiction is worse than Ray Charles's and I am constantly itching to get home to fire up the melting pot or break out my tying vice. 

I want to thank Smalljaw for all of the youtube vids.  They have helped reduce my learning curve.

[Scarborough817]

man i want to get into tying my own jigs

[DoDFire]

4 hours ago, Scarborough817 said:

man i want to get into tying my own jigs

You can do it with out breaking the bank. If you need help or have questions feel free to ask I don't mind one bit to help you out.

5 hours ago, YUT18 said:

An addiction is right.  I started making my own jigs last month to pass some time and to give me more options than what I can buy in stores.  After I got everything I needed to get started I quickly realized that what I had wasn't enough.  I had to have more mold options, more hooks, skirts, paint, and lets not forget some eyes. My addiction is worse than Ray Charles's and I am constantly itching to get home to fire up the melting pot or break out my tying vice. 

I want to thank Smalljaw for all of the youtube vids.  They have helped reduce my learning curve.

You opened a can of worms for sure haha haha...I love it when I get to pour paint and tie. I also catch many a fish in my mind when I'm in my special place.

[YUT18]

I've always been a go big or go home kind of person. But making your own lures tops the go big part. It's an addiction that actually has a reward on the back end. Last year I had someone custom make my lures and cannot wait to set the hook on a hog with one I made from scratch. I really appreciate those that post their experience in this forum. It truly helps reduce the learning curve and expenses. 

[DoDFire]

Do yourself a favor and don't get hung up in fishing nothing but a jig. When I started making my own I pretty much quit fishing soft plastics, top water, and crankbaits. And wouldn't you know it my catch rate went to the bottom of the lake just like a jig but boy ohhh boy when they were on the jigs I puckered their butt. I just purchased $400 worth of "stuff" to get back on my cranking game so hopefully this next year I can start catch'n again. You tied a hair jig yet?

[YUT18]

I haven't tied hair jigs yet. I just finished with my first batch. I plan on making a few with hair this weekend. 

[iabass8]

That 6in 1oz Gizard shad....wow that's impressive. 

[DoDFire]

I have tied it all, bear hair, craft hair, bucktail, foxtail, rabbit, squirrel, kip tail, dang this list could go on for a bit. I really like the craft hair for summer and I absolutely LOVE the foxtail for my winter jigs. If you ever get into the foxtail check out a site called Etsy, kinda like eBay without the drama or hassle. I buy all my fox from there, I can buy a whole tail for 10-20 $$ where fly tie'n shop want s 5-7$ for a little medallion shaped section. You can find some nice colors there as well. One thing to remember when you tie hair......NEVER cut the tips of the hair......That's the life of a hair jig. If you need to thin or shorten a jig just pull the strands out, hold the head in one hand and with the other pull straight back from the tips until you get the size/profile you want. I have seen a few messed up jigs where a person took a pair of scissors and just wacked the ends off. Post pics when you tie some up.

5 minutes ago, iabass8 said:

That 6in 1oz Gizard shad....wow that's impressive. 

Thank You.....That thing is a beast. That is not like the "big" hair jigs you see being sold today. To tell you how much hair that jig gets I can only tie 3-4 jigs with one bucktail. It glides when it sinks.

[Will Wetline]

Immaculate work, DoDFire.

[beaverretreiver]

On 12/15/2016 at 6:50 AM, DoDFire said:

 I have an addiction for hand tied hand made jigs and will tie anything that has a hook, Let's see your homemade hand tied creations........Here area few of the thousands I have tied.

6" and 1 oz. Gizzard Shad

Modified Poison Tail Jig to free swing

 

How did you connect the blade on this one? I did something similar and made a normal spinner bait wire loop but wasn't sure it was the best way. Anyway we could get a pic?

[DoDFire]

I buy open eye wire forms and cut them and form them by hand to fit in the mold....Also note my Poison Tail mold was heavily modified as in I had to cut lots of material out of the top to get it to fit the blade. 

[beaverretreiver]

17 minutes ago, DoDFire said:

I buy open eye wire forms and cut them and form them by hand to fit in the mold....Also note my Poison Tail mold was heavily modified as in I had to cut lots of material out of the top to get it to fit the blade. 

Thanks for the reply. For whatever reason those images aren't loading for me. 

I have modified my poison tail mold as well to make it more versatile. (IE spinnerbait, chetterbait, Wire keeper, etc)

[DoDFire]

2 hours ago, beaverretreiver said:

Thanks for the reply. For whatever reason those images aren't loading for me. 

I have modified my poison tail mold as well to make it more versatile. (IE spinnerbait, chetterbait, Wire keeper, etc)

See if this worked.... 

 

[beaverretreiver]

3 minutes ago, DoDFire said:

See if this worked.... 

 

That worked. You weren't kidding when you said heavy modified.

Do you have any issue pouring normal jigs with those mods?

[DoDFire]

I actually have another mold that I bought to replace the modified mold so I pour regular poison tails with it. I only use the modified mold for the vibrating jig. I don't pour but 4-5 of the vib's per year. I tell ya' those molds are tough it was a pain with a dremel tool and a cutting wheel to cut that out. I chain drilled then cut with the wheel. I do get some over pour with the lead and have to clean it out but it's not to bad.

[beaverretreiver]

17 minutes ago, DoDFire said:

I actually have another mold that I bought to replace the modified mold so I pour regular poison tails with it. I only use the modified mold for the vibrating jig. I don't pour but 4-5 of the vib's per year. I tell ya' those molds are tough it was a pain with a dremel tool and a cutting wheel to cut that out. I chain drilled the cut with the wheel. I do get some over pour with the lead and have to clean it out but it's not to bad.

HMMM I have an idea on something similar to yours but not quite as destructive. I am breaking out the dremel this weekend. I will port the results.

[dopey]

Love tying my own jigs - arctic fox, rabbit, bisone, bear, polar bear (after I got through the paperwork) and feathers - whatever there is.  Here's a few

 

Craft hair

Bunny strips

Grizzly Bear

Polar Bear

Feathers and Hackle

[DoDFire]

1 hour ago, dopey said:

Love tying my own jigs - arctic fox, rabbit, bisone, bear, polar bear (after I got through the paperwork) and feathers - whatever there is.  Here's a few

 

Craft hair

Bunny strips

Grizzly Bear

Polar Bear

Feathers and Hackle

Good look'n ties for sure, wish I could get my hands on some polar bear hair.....The doll fly was created right here in town where I'm from and that's what Mr. Elmer "Doll" Thompson tied/had made his with. That is a special hair with the glimmer it has. Your bunny jigs is wicked, I like that color.

[Bluebasser86]

Some great looking baits in here. Mine are more function than anything.

[beaverretreiver]

I was able to mod my mold. A keeper hides underneath for a swim bait.

["hamma"]

these are "some" of mine I took a quick pic of, the green craw top right was the latest. has eyes and antenna's as well as rabbit strips for claws, I started with the bass jigs on the left, and just messed around with feathers, furs and chenile, later on. The skirts on the left are hand picked strands, one by one till I get the colors I want for a particular jig

[J Francho]

Here's my submission.  It's a bed fishing jig

 

["hamma"]

23 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Here's my submission.  It's a bed fishing jig

 

 lol ,...thats a sexy beast right there!

some better pics

[J Francho]

The marabou/football jig in the second pic would get chomped up here!