A couple more Microjigs

[AllenOK]

1/80 head, size 8 (?) Aberdeen hook. Chartreuse powder paint head. Chartreuse neck hackle fibers and Krystal flash tail, black ostrich herl for the body.

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1/80 head, size 8 (?) Aberdeen hook. Chartreuse powder paint head. Chartreuse neck hackle fibers and Krystal flash tail, dyed-pink ostrich herl for the body.

This ostrich plume, up close, is more of a Fuscia color than actual pink. I might have to try and get some Fl. Pink Veniard's dye, and dye up a white ostrich plume.

 

[Jig Man]

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[plateboater]

Body material is sweet! Great jigs

 

[Fatman]

Nice ties

 

[AtticaFish]

Those are amazing little jigs. Perfect proportions IMO. They will get bit big time!

Do you counter wrap your herl? I have some and it can be pretty brittle. Instead of using wire, you can just half hitch your thread a couple times at the back, counter wrap the thread over the herl up to the head. Don't have to, but pretty simple to do and think it really helps.

 

[AllenOK]

AtticaFish, hadn't thought of that. I actually tie in three herls, grip the butt end of the herls with hackle pliars, spin the herl into chenille, then wrap.

My black ostrich herl is a crappy, short, plume. On the jig pictured, I had to tie off the first three herls at the 50% point, and tie in three more herls, then wrap to the jighead. Six herls total. Talk about a pain in the butt! That's what I get for buying cheap ostrich plumes at Hobby Lobby. The good premium stuff at BPS is plenty long enough, but costs twice as much.

 

[LedHed]

Very cool tyes - think those are a #10 VMC

You might want to try brush or rope style with the ostrich herl...

 

[plateboater]

Rope Style?????

 

[AllenOK]

I think that's what I did? Tied in three herls, twisted them into chenille, then wrapped. It's actually more like I palmered the herl after I furled it. I would do one wrap, then using index and thumb on my left hand, brush the short barbules of the herl back, repeat.

 

[Pup]

Nice-looking little jigs indeed.

 

[LedHed]

http://www.jigcraft.com/tutorials/herl_rope_01.html

or

http://www.jigcraft.com/tutorials/dubbing_brush_tool.html

 

[smallieking]

Nice !!!

 

[Ron Don]

Dude those are awesome!

 

[plateboater]

as always....thanks Led

 

[StumpHunter]

Nice work on the jigs and the bodies came out very nice. Some times on ebay you can find some nice plume in white.

 

[LedHed]

no worries pb - always a couple of ways to skin a cat

The white would be cool - use neon hi liters on it when you finish the tye...