Making skirts flare

[KP Duty]

Wanting to make some keitech/skinny bear style jigs.  Looking for something to put on the jig collar to accomplish this.  I've ran across a thing or two to use....maybe even a small rubber washer.  What say you?

 

[PaulVE64]

Copper wire that you could use for gardening 

[KP Duty]

Did some research.  Apparently an o-ring under the skirt tie will get the bottom material to flare.  I'm thinking a small rubber washer will get the top fibers to flare out sharply/flat.

[J Francho]

Wire tied living rubber flares the most. 

[Jig Man]

Look up puff ball jigs and how to tie them.  You don’t need anything extra.

 

This one is round living rubber and silicone.

[Munkin]

On 1/27/2024 at 3:17 PM, KP Duty said:

Did some research.  Apparently an o-ring under the skirt tie will get the bottom material to flare.  I'm thinking a small rubber washer will get the top fibers to flare out sharply/flat.

 

Fishingskirts.com sells an o-ring you can run behind the back of the skirt to get the bottom layer to flare. The other thing you can do is just use a hole-in-one skirt which has the same flare.

 

Allen

[KP Duty]

I want the top of the skirt on my finesse jigs to look like this.  It kind of does this naturally with larger/heavier heads, but harder to accomplish with 3/16 and 1/4oz ball heads.

 

[Munkin]

 

Hole-In-One finesse skirt.

 

Allen

4 minutes ago, KP Duty said:

I want the top of the skirt in my finesse jigs to look like this....

 

 

That's hand tied with thread pushed tight against the head then cut short. Send a message to smalljaw67 and ask him as he is the expert on hand tying jigs. Personally I cannot tie s**t using thread or I would help.

 

Allen

[KP Duty]

12 minutes ago, Munkin said:

 

Hole-In-One finesse skirt.

 

Allen

 

That's hand tied with thread pushed tight against the head then cut short. Send a message to smalljaw67 and ask him as he is the expert on hand tying jigs. Personally I cannot tie s**t using thread or I would help.

 

Allen

I've never tried tying skirts (yet)...been using zip ties.  They work, but are thicker than wire and don't promote flaring.

[Jig Man]

What you have in the pic is a lion collar jig. You can wire tie them with a little practice.  You can get more flair if you make a channel in the lead close to the head and put your wire in it.

 

 If you have trouble with the wire you can use thread to get everything positioned then put the wire on.  I sometimes do that when I have several different colors to put on.

 

If you can, don’t put the weed guard in until last.  That will make everything much easier.

[The Jig Is Up]

Yes, @smalljaw67 has some fantastic videos showing how to do this.

 

Cut a groove in the lead collar up close to the head. If you are not keen on thread tying, you can use artistic wire to tightly cinch the skirt material where that groove is. It's tougher to get the same flare with a small jighead, but that should give you something close to what you're looking for.

[WRB]

Slide a bubbler skirt collar up under the jig tail against the skirt to flare it.

Tom

[Catt]

https://barlowstackle.com/-Skirt-Umbrellas--P823/

[WRB]

The large size umbrella is for jigs. The skirt is tied onto the tubular end, slide the umbrella onto the jig tail end with the cone end towards the jig head. 

Tom

[Bdnoble84]

If you thread tie your skirts you can make it flair by tying with close tight wraps up against the head. You can do the same to the inside skirting by tying tight up against the collar on the jig shank.

[Munkin]

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See if this link works for everyone? It shows how to make the lionscut hole-in-one flare skirts with a $5 tool.

 

Allen

[PaulVE64]

45 minutes ago, Munkin said:

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See if this link works for everyone? It shows how to make the lionscut hole-in-one flare skirts with a $5 tool.

 

Allen

Sorry, just took me to my own Facebook page

[Munkin]

12 minutes ago, PaulVE64 said:

Sorry, just took me to my own Facebook page

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Try this one.

 

[PaulVE64]

56 minutes ago, Munkin said:

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Try this one.

 

It works!