smalljaw
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This is a different way of doing this jig, you tie the wings in with a little more cup but you have to have the right kind of hackle to make it look right and when I found the right ones I decided to do one. When I say the hackle has to be right I mean it has have no gaps in the barbs and these worked nice color wise as they were bad chinchilla dyed hackle feather that I got from Michaels as they were the only ones that the dye didn't go all the way out to the edges so you have sort of an outline, I think it looks a lot like a wing. It is a simple 1/8oz ball jig painted gray with a body of gray bucktail and silver flash, the wings are the messed up chinchilla hackle feathers and finished off with a furnace hackle collar. The jig on the left is one I did a week or so ago and I wanted you to see the difference the hackle makes in this tie.
