Super Tubes

Attempting to mimic some of my favorite colors for LMB & SMB on some super SHARP hooks and beautiful heads. These will be getting thrown soon as the water starts to warm.

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Great-looking jigs AF. I bet your 'field testing' will be fun and productive with this nice variety of color choices.

Any of those will fish here for sure . Got those hook eyes clean as a whistle too .

Good lookin jigs, just don't toss em in the Latrine!

Man those are SHARP. I feel sorry for the fish. They ain't got a chance.

Looking Good

Nice work Russ...

Those are sweet
I use to fish with tubes a lot, have a few tied tubes in the box and they catch fish. Not sure of the reason more isn't used.

Stellar jigs Russ.. great pics too !

Nice job. Make sure you tie a bunch, you'll loose a bunch draging a tube slowly across the bottom

Couldn't help but notice how detailed your map is ... even marks all the latrines.

Thanks for the encouraging words. The brown/orange one uses some new sili skirt tabs that are crinkle cut. Kind of neat looking.

That mapped water body appears to offer everything - steep nearshore drop offs, shallow coves & flats, inlets, neckdowns, humps, and lots of "convenience stations". What are the triangles?

Are you using some kind of smoke candy paint?

If you are looking at pics #3 & #4 from the top, not sure how you guessed it..... but is in fact a mix of the Pro-Tech smoke color with lots of clear to create a candied coating. The smoke is sorta metallic on its own, but letting the actual metal show through make it look pretty good. Works nice to add a darker dorsal side and allow glitter/mica to show through.

The triangles are listed as 'fishing devices' so most likely are some kind of structure dropped by the DNR. This set of maps is pretty old so no telling if the state continues to maintain the structure. The lake is Lake Milton ( no, not stalking you Bill, just flopped open the book and it came to that page ) in Eastern Ohio. In google maps, looks pretty built up along the shoreline, so doubtful there is much public access to the shoreline.