Some buggy ties with tired eyes.

Decided to try to tie up some buggy looking jigs before bed tonight just to get the ideas out of my head. I like what i came up with but they can certainly be cleaner looking. Tired Eyes Can Lead To Ugly Ties!

This one is the same pattern I've been catching gills on but on a jig head. I tried adding a collar with deer hair. I don't think I like the collar.

1/32 gold head with tan/black chenille,turkey wing and deer hair

View attachment 8

1/32 orangeish head with turkey tail feather and peacock herl

View attachment 9

This one I like but it needs some improvement. I suck at hackle collars I've come to find out. :dodgy: Might be better with a set of wings and no collar. With a pair of nippers I cut a little lead off the head to make a little wedge for painting the buggy eyes. Started out making this one just like the first pic with the tan/black chenille then I tied in a piece of brown chenille and then tied in some peacock herl on top and wrapped it all the way back and left some for tail piece.

View attachment 2
View attachment 3

Nice ties I like the bottom two. The eyes are what make those two winner,winner chicken dinner. Nicely Done!!!!!

Redman

They all look great!! You'll definitely get some gills with those! The eyes are killer on that last one!

OUTSTANDING!! :icon14::icon14:

Nice job. Nothing wrong with those.

Nice ties Andy and there's nothing wrong with those collars!!!!!!! Where did you get the buggy eyes??? or are they just painted on??

Fatman said:

Nice ties Andy and there's nothing wrong with those collars!!!!!!! Where did you get the buggy eyes??? or are they just painted on??

Click to expand...

They are painted. I cut a little lead off the back of the head with some end nippers to make kind of a wedge then used a nail and dotted the black then used smaller nail to dot the orange.

Those look good.

Love the eyes on those. How did you paint them?

Edit: Looks like I should read down a bit further next time... Very nice paint jobs, though!

Thanks for the painting info Andy

All I can say is WOW!

Very creative. Like Redman, I favor the bottom two. The "eyes" have it.

The bottom two for me also, very insect looking and will get bit a lot!!!! Very nice job on the imagination!!