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I sit around in my shop staying cool and make a new color Blue Grass in jigs and spinnerbaits
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Beautiful!
If you don't mind me asking, where do you get your skirt material?
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Skirts plus, Fishing skirts.com, Lure parts on line for silicone skirt material. All my bulk and special order colors in silicone skirting material comes from Skirts Plus
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Fish at night.
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Short arm spinnerbaits and chatterbaits and jigs are all working well at night at Eastman right now
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Jann's netcraft, Hagen's For custom fiberguards kayser Lure corp.
For bulk hooks Shorty's hooks. List go on and on
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For hand tying Coats & Clark Upholstery thread 137 mil 150 yard spools it's a waxed coated thread won't break down in water For accents Bucktail and flashabou and Marabou.
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jiggin4bass wrote: Wed Sep 07, 2022 3:29 pm I sit around in my shop staying cool and make a new color Blue Grass in jigs and spinnerbaits
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That looks tasty. Do you sell your baits?
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I only work with 30 current friends/customer's
No plans on any more business
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I like that green pumpkin blue spinner
Looks like a good jig color too
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Keep your color patterns simple crawdad bluegill perch shad golby and hitch colors
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jiggin4bass wrote: Wed Sep 07, 2022 3:41 pm Skirts plus, Fishing skirts.com, Lure parts on line for silicone skirt material. All my bulk and special order colors in silicone skirting material comes from Skirts Plus
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JVGondal nice jigs is that square rubber from Mr B's ?
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It’s square but so old I bet I got it back in 99

I really don’t recall where it’s from
But I ran out of brown and got it from Andy’s and it’s very close
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For a long time square was hard to find. I used round rubber frog hair fine in its place

All of it catches fish for me
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Brown from Andy’s old sckool
Brown from Andy’s old sckool
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I use 4/0 3/4 oz
Gami hook. Pour my own head. Powder coat

I’m a filpper. I grew up as a youngster with my dad who never really got into bass fishing but his co worker friend were Dee Thomas
I ended up fishing with Dee a couple times
I like to flip old school with a crock of line in my left hand following the bait out. Dee taught me how to suspend the bait in mid air just before it enters the water creating a silent splash less entry
My jig is build for that.

Using a Ganns hummer jig 3/4 oz black blue pork trailer I caught my personal best. 14.88 flippin Mr Thomas style in 2013 on the delta
I miss seeing the red boat
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Order samples of all 6 colors let see if they have improved the rubber since the last time I used it.
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Does anyone sell a sample pack?
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If you pay for them
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jiggin4bass wrote: Sat Sep 10, 2022 11:04 am If you pay for them
I recall they use to sell you 5 or 6 inches in each color as a sample
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JVGondal do you tie finesse jigs like lions collar type jigs. I like tying them in Fine round rubber and Silicone accent material and fishing them on light line. 6 to 10 lbs test.
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No. Standard football jig

How the heck do you tie that? I love it
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I can tie them on Football heads, Bullet heads Arkie heads, Standup heads, Chub heads, Walleye heads or pretty much any jig head that you can pour yourself. I pour all my own. But i do like the punching jigs from fishingskirts.com Grass Invader jig heads in 1oz. & 1.5oz. weights. I starting tying the lions collar jigs in 1992 for Eastman & Hensley Lakes Millerton, Pineflat, McClure, Tullock lakes. In 1/8, 3/16, 1/4 & 3/8 oz. Sizes
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Ill tie some lions collar jigs with bucktail accent and post them here shortly there great for wintertime fishing on spinning outfits.
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I bet that lion head would be good on a stand up jig.
I’m going to try and build one
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The trick with the bucktail don't use any glue too anchor the thread no need to the the round rubber will hold it in place. Even if you tie bucktail by itself never use glue. The trick is in the tie it will never fail or come apart.
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The trick with the bucktail don't use any glue too anchor the thread no need to the the round rubber will hold it in place. Even if you tie bucktail by itself never use glue. The trick is in the tie it will never fail or come apart.
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You can tie lions collar jigs using reg round rubber and adding the accents you want
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I am I missing something, don’t see Lefty’s jigs as a advertiser but this long thread serves the purpose.
45 years making jigs deserves a free pass👍
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Fish that with a trailer?
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4" Yamamoto 208 watermelon/red/black flake twin tail grub
I'm a big fan of Yamamoto single and twin tail bait products
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I am finding that some of the square rubber I have is different.
Some stretches more and peels apart better as you stretch cut it
That is the old original I have. Unfortunately it’s green that I don’t really care for. That’s why I have some left
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The old living square rubber had a great stretch
memory when you cut it. The Andy's old school flat rubber didn't the last time I tried it. It been awhile since I did. I'm going to try it again too see if they improved it since then. The flare of the rubber is what I was disappointed in with making the lion collar jigs and the puffball jigs. So will if it works this time
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Oh I see now.
For me it works fine for delta flippin
With the delta ramp 10 minutes away it’s hard not to spend most my time there
I mean it’s so giant if I get tired of fishing an area I just drive 30 minutes and the same delta is like another whole lake
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Lakes I like to fish Eastman Hensley Millerton Pineflat Bass Lake Mcclure.
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New melones
Comanche
McClure
Amador
Pedro

In that order.
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If I lived in the Modesto area I would most likely fish the same lakes and Bowling leagues at Yosemite lanes and McHenry lanes I would be set then. I might even do jig tying and lure building classes. There a few different ways to tie skirting material for the do it yourself person that wants to learn. I'm not into YouTube stuff it has it place. But I'm more and in person hands on type in teaching lure building and skirt tying. I've watch guys trying to tie a puffball style jig on YouTube it's very painfully to watch for 15 minutes or so. They don't do justice for either the lions collar or the puffball style jigs. Its called finesse style fishing.
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