smalljaw
New member
The last time fishing, my friend and me did really well with the jigs I made with the UV material, these jigs are pictured in the forum. Anyway, I was happy and it got me deeper into tying and experimenting and today I get a call from a friend who I gave some jigs to with the only condition that he tried them and to let me know what happened. He told me the jigs that had the hackle and the dubbing were getting bit when he was fishing rocks around current, and the wild colored ones didn't get bit, only the ones that had browns, blacks and watermelon and green pumpkin patterns, with the number one being a jig I made that had a thick brown bucktail tail, black chenille and orange hackle and a black jig head. I get this info and then I'm in the store with my wife a couple hours later and in the magazine rack is a copy of fly tyers world and there was an article about big nymphs for smallies and it made me think, one day were catching them on what I would call an attractor type pattern and then a week or so goes by and the more natural patterns are working, so now that I know both types work well I wanted to see what type of patterns you guys tie more of, forage or attractor patterns? An inquiring mind wants to know.