Hair jigs

[LrgmouthShad]

Hey ya’ll

 

This winter I’m interested in making some hair jigs. Wondering if anyone has some experience with this and what equipment I need to have for this. Can you tie the hair with the weedguard on or does it have to be removed? Any tips welcome.

 

 

[Munkin]

These are the ones I have started making.  Now I can't tie so a buddy of mine ties the hair for me.  These are just sparkie heads that I added a FG12 weedguard pin to in a spincast mold.  I glue the weedguards in last because its easier to tie them without the weedguard in. 

 

Allen 

[MickD]

I tie marabou  and hair jigs without weed guards.  I'm not a big fan of most weed guards anyway.  I trim them back significantly from how most skirted jigs come.  On the jigs  I tie I use jigs without them.

 

I think that adding them after the tie is the way to go if you need them.  I don't see how to easily tie with them in place.  

[smalljaw67]

Check my YouTube channel out, I have a lot of hair jig tutorials on there.  I use all kinds of material, bucktail, rabbit, Arctic Fox, craft fur and a lot of other stuff.  smalljaw - YouTube

[LrgmouthShad]

Thanks ya’ll ?

[Bdnoble84]

Watch smalljaw. He is the master. Its how i learned to tie

[dopey]

Glue it in after.  I've used craft fur (Targus is the best but very hard to find), all the bear hairs, rabbit, squirrel, sable, arctic fox, coyote, buffalo, bucktail and on and on.  

[papajoe222]

It's funny that you asked about tying with a weed guard on.  I just finished my first attempt at doing so.  It didn't turn out bad, but it was a bit tricky wrapping the thread around. I secured the hair with 70 denier and finished the wrap with 210. The thicker thread gave the finished wrap a much more uniform look. The next time I order jig heads from Siebert, I'm asking Mike to not glue the weed guards in place. I'll do it after I tie them up.  

[Bassbum1016]

I always tie without a weedguard

 

I prefer to tie with synthetic, but also tie with buck tail and most recently bear hair 

[dopey]

Head is a 1/32nd oz. football head and paint is a base color of New Penny with a clear coat of irridescent orange glitter, and the hair is grizzly bear

[Mr. Aquarium]

I love marabou or rabbit zonkers. I tie a variety. Sparsely tied to bulky.