Bottom-Walking Brownie

[Pup]

Tied this one up this evening on a 'Lead Free Jigs' Custom Hooksup Jig.  It's a natural for this design.  This jig should slide along gravel bottoms like a 'sled'.  Its head shape is perfect for Tulip paint eyes.  Can't wait to fish it next year.  



Materials:

• Milani Nail Lacquer #35 (Brown-A-Licious) or Cover Girl Continuous Color 3-in-1 Nail Polish 36M (Autumn Flame)
• Lion Brand Yarn 'Lion Suede' - coffee
• UTC Ultra Thread 140 denier - rusty brown
• Elastic rubber legs - white
• Tulip Slick Designer Fabric Paints - black and fluorescent yellow
• Devcon 2 Ton 30-Minute Epoxy
• Lead Free Jigs Hooksup Jig - custom head weighing 1/9 of an ounce with a 1/0 hook
• Tandy Leather Factory Premium Leather Remnant - pebbled brown

 

[jackie53]

WOW nice perfection. Like the lead free jig's.

 

[joe]

Nice dragger...and those are some rather precise eyes with Tulip Slick.

How's the Tandy leather work when wet? Stiffer than chamois cloth or about the same? Reason I ask is that while chamois works great in stillwater, it tends to go crazy in any kind of current, especially with regard to stream bottom eddy. Almost useless for behaving itself on upstream casts and retrieves back where it wraps back around itself.

The stuff you have up there looks a bit stiffer and better suited to stream use.

 

[Fatman]

Nice tie PUP!!!!!!!  How do you think that would work out on a wobble head jig???  
http://store.do-itmolds.com/Wobble-JigbrSz-11618-14-38brHk-570-or-575brCollar-Barb_p_1094.html

 

[Pup]

Thank you for your comments everyone.  

How's the Tandy leather work when wet?  Stiffer than chamois cloth or about the same?

Joe,
Pretty well if I have a low-weight leather to use.  I prefer their leathers to be around four ounces generally.  Cowhides tend to be stiffer than suede at the same weight. Have to let some leathers soak for a while before they become maximally flexible.  Suede approaches chamois in terms of flexibility and feel at weights around 4 ounces and less.

How do you think that would work out on a wobble head jig???

FM,
I think that it would work quite well.  Though, I'd be tempted to tie the leather tail on sideways, rather than flat with respect to the bottom as it appears here.

Just thinking that a reaper-style tail design might work well with a wobble head. :head_scratch:

 

[duffy]

Very nice! I can see some smallmouth getting revved up and sucking that up this spring.

 

[joe]

Thanks, Pup. Poked around the Hobby Lobby site and saw the "remnant pack" which look quite similar to the surfacing on yours. Have to hit the local and see what they have instore, I'm thinking that surface is just enough to stiffen it more than the chamois car cloth I use in stillwater.

I always squeeze and sponge the leather around in the water before the first cast, one really does need to work the in the water a bit. Fabric paint does well to toughening the hook slot/tab on trailers, but stiffens and soaks in to uncontrollably for the action limbs. Gonna try the "pebbled finish" products for creeks...mighty creature-ish looking texture on there, too.

 

[rich mc]

very nice. pup where does the elastic come from, it seems thicker than silicone legs thanks rich mc

 

[Jig Man]

Nice one Pup

 

[Pup]

Thanks again for your comments everyone.

very nice. pup where does the elastic come from, it seems thicker than silicone legs  thanks rich mc

The rubber comes from a dissected bungee cord.  It's plentiful and inexpensive.

 

[rich mc]

thanks . i like the thicker size. now to raid my son in laws garage tomorrow as he has many

 

[bombora]

That's a cool jig. Great eyes too. And love how you tell us the exact nail polish used: an see my self going to the make up section of the department store and asking "Do you have some Milani Nail Lacquer #35 Brown-A-Licious polish by any chance?" !!!

 

[Pup]

That's a cool jig. Great eyes too. And love how you tell us the exact nail polish used: an see my self going to the make up section of the department store and asking "Do you have some Milani Nail Lacquer #35 Brown-A-Licious polish by any chance?" !!!

LOL.

Thanks Bombora.

 

[Hawnjigs]

What forage is this design imitating? Or are you trying to drive match-the-hatch replica flyguys nuts?

 

[Pup]

Hawn,
This bait is designed for black bass which don't care much about direct imitation in my experience.  I'm hoping that it looks like something edible as I move it through the water and along the bottom.

Fly guys get one over on me with Chernobyl Ants.

 

[joe]

Pup, if the stillwater greenies don't eat it, the moving water brownies likely will. Years ago, one of my favorite plastics for moving water smallmouth was an Arkie Salty Crawlin' Fry. I'd cut them in half, rig on a jig, and just let it drift on across and downstream quartered casts...absolutely deadly and required nothing but a bit of bottom contact. It's the profile and the way the legs act when bumping against the bottom. Essentially, a hapless "aquaticritter" waiting to be eaten.

Everyone uses the Crawlin' Fry in whole form for LM bass, but half of one is unbeatable for SM bass. A form that resembles nothing, yet more irresistible than most anything.

Interesting style tie which is worth exploring, it has very successful analogs in plastisol creations though few really speak of them. The flyfishing ideas are usually too light to keep bottom properly and Gapen's idea is kinda complicated to reasonably churn-out for real use.

 

[Pup]

Joe,
I plan to fish this design for smallmouth and spotted bass in the White River, possibly early next spring.  Maybe, I'll give it a little duty over at Eagle Creek Reservoir for largemouth bass too.

 

[Hawnjigs]

Checked out Chernobyl Ant ties. Hahaha, they're like snow flakes, only uglier.

 

[Moselbarsch]

Really nice tie!!!

 

[duffy]

I think if you drag that anywhere near a bass nest it's gonna get hammered.