Greetings from over the big pond

[Bucho]

Hello everybody!

some of my friends call me "bucho"(like the villain in that Banderas movie), and I have to say I am fascinated about this site. Living and fishing in Kiel, Germany, there`s virtually no jig tying around that I have learned of. Folks either buy the plastics that are being marketed to them or tie flies once that they`ve learned the trick.

Most of my fishing is light tackle salt water, for sea(-run brown-)trout and cod, with more freshwater trips for brown trout, (northern)pike, zander (walleye?) and (yellow ) perch up to come. I am a proud owner of a Hobie Outback Kayak, and so far I find Jigs and Bucktails a fantastic enrichment to both my tackle box and tying bench. While I deeply enjoy fly fishing and -tying, I have more of a whatever-it -takes attitude. A homemade, customized lure that can even be scented or tipped is just about what I always wanted

Tight lines!

Bucho

 

[Fatman]

Welcome aboard from Vermont!!!!!!!! You'll find tips from tying tiny trout jigs all the way to saltwater!!!!!!!! Hope you enjoy the site!!!!!!!!!

 

[Radtexan]

Welcome aboard Bucho !!!! always glad to have International members here...Its great to hear bout the differences the way we all go about our passion...We have a few yak'ers here...Myself I fish from the yak's bastard's cousin the water wagon ..


Hopefully you might see some jigs or lures here that will help in your pursuit..

 

[toadfrog]

Welcome from Oklahoma central U.S. You have just found the site where some of the best jig tiers hang out . EVERY THING YOU EVER IMAGINED IS TIED BY THE FELLOWS HERE . Conventional non conventional and innovative work using tools and materials that have a demention all their own . Come along and have fun with us . We are just brothers from different mothers .

 

[Jig Man]

Hola from West Texas, Looking forward to seeing your creations and maybe some pictures of fish and country.

 

[Squeakyboatcaptain]

Wie Geht's from East Texas! I enjoyed fishing for the brown trout near Kaiserslautern when we lived in Germany. Welcome to the site!! I sure miss the great Deutches Bier!!!

 

[AtticaFish]

Welcome from Ohio and glad to have you join the site. Nice to see a growing international interest in the site.

I am a kayak fisherman myself and can't wait until the temperature warms up more so i can get it out and do some fishing.

 

[StumpHunter]

Welcome aboard from South Carolina. Good to have you join in with us here. I have a couple kayaks to fish some of the flat thin waters around here, lots of fun.

 

[LedHed]

Another Hola from SoCal (Southern California) - welcome aboard. I am very interested in seeing your work.

 

[Hawnjigs]

Like Toad says, some of the artists here have a "demention all their own".

If you're a scent dipper think you'll find the wool jigs perfect for cheating.

 

[ScottV]

Welcome aboard from Mississippi. Crappie jigs are my hobby and I've learned a lot from the good folks on this site. You'll love it here.

 

[LRB]

HOWDY THERE PARTNER.....WELCOME FROM WEST TEXAS !!!..:icon14:




ML...

 

[Bucho]

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Even after just a few days reading, I have already found great inspiration with first results: 2 days ago I went on a trolling walk with my castable, 12cm mini-sideplaner and a wobbler fly along the plain, long banks of the kiel canal. How I came up with this? Lets just say it involves a gilrl i used to date who loved to take long walks...
Anyhow, one of the problems involved with such a small planer is a very poor rate of hook-ups, as it doesn`t offer enough resistance to the fish to set the hook by itself. So after one or two hours of walking, you finally bump into that big bad aggressive 54cm brown trout that attacks your trolled fly but just won´t stick... what do you do? After having seen the march showcase, I found that pulling a UL rod out of the backpack and cast a 1/16oz wolly-bugger style spinner at it works just fine! Here`s a few pics, unfortunately I´ve lost my camera and have to use my cell phone these days.


http://www.geo.de/reisen/community/bild/301150#gallerySlider
on the right side of pic in the link you can see the actual starting point of my last walk, the double track leading away from the viewer.

 

[ragged edge]

Little late as usual but.......Welcome from New Mexico.......

 

[redman]

a Big Howdy from Deep East Texas. Hope you have fun learn from us and we will learn a few tricks from you. There is a lot to learn here and people will to help you out. So don't be afraid to ask. Just raise a glass of that good German Beer for us on occasion and tell us how much we enjoyed it.

Redman

 

[CrappieHappy]

Welcome to JigCraft Bucho!!

 

[Fatman]

Nice Brown!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Hawnjigs]

Yup, plumper and more silvery than inland cousins.

 

[smalljaw]

Welcome aboard from PA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice fish BTW!!!

 

[Pepop]

Welcome aboard from PA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice fish BTW!!!

And yet another East Texas Welcome to you!