How and why did you get started tying jigs

[skeetbum]

I started tying for several different reasons. First is a deep seated love of working with my hands and seeing a finished product that's as good or better than I can buy. After 16 yrs in construction, I've been driving truck for 20 yrs and have to feed my creative side or I just go nuts. I love the outdoors but as the years advance I noticed that stomping around in the woods, or the expense of clay targets, or the lack of the comradarie (sp) in several other ventures led me here. I needed something to do in the winter that I could do inside when it's cold and the fishing trips weren't frequent enough to satisfy the urge. My only regret is that I didn't start this years ago because I enjoy it so much, both the tying and the interaction with everyone. Welcome to the addiction.

 

[blt]

Old thread, but.....
5 years ago, I didn't even fish. I'm 48 now and am hooked so to speak. My Dad made tackle and sold to a bunch of stores along the beach in De.
He passed away and I told my Mom I would try to learn and keep his label going. Didn't even know how to tie a knot lol

Now I sell to shops in 3 states, hoping to get into the Carolinas and may have a connection in Fl.

I buy tails from a local furrier, dye them myself, and make jigs from 1/8 oz. - 8oz. Fluke ball jigs, along with several non jig rigs for Flounder, striper, croaker, spot, and many other fish.

I am here to learn anything I can to better myself, and see a couple of names of people from other forums here.

Thanks for letting me in.

 

[SaltyBuckster]

You sound like a good guy,lol.Anybody that ties for flounder is OK with me.Welcome from Pa.

 

[Jig Man]

Hola from West Texas BLT...Great folks here....

 

[blt]

I agree, a tip of the hat to you. I did a motorcycle fundraiser for the Vets that were staying at the Lebanon Pa. V.A., and loved the visit. Same story, some had family only an hour away, and only came to visit one time a year, and some never. All money raised was spending money for them to use for trips, going out for breakfast...what ever they wanted.

 

[snake River]

we are a old-timer in tying jigs we started out when we were about 13 years old and we will be 65 this April but when I started we did not have a whole lot of stuff to work with matter of fact there were hardly any jig heads available portion of the I had a friend that had a mold but they were not that common looking jig heads but they did do the job so jig tying has come a long ways from when I started thinking back to early 60s there wasn't that many hand tied jigs on the market locally there was only one company dip were selling them in Portland Oregon and you could only get them in basics white yellow black that was it and these were just ball heads with marabou and that was it we started to type trout flies and used a lot of different materials in jig making which was quite fascinating world we were able to do some of our basic fly patterns into jigs which made them more effective some the you guys might try this they worked exceptionally well on bluegills in the smaller jig heads now that we are working with plastics with marabou and we do make the jelly jigs which are quite effective in very attractive we still use the basic jig tying methods and you Chanelle most of the time but not all the time there you have it over 50 years of experience.