MICRO JIGS

[JUNGLEJIM1]

I bought these tiny jigs off ebay a few years ago. They listed the weight at 1/128,#14 hook. When I removed the collar on some they weigh 1/180 on my digital scale. Local lake has ton's of fry,probably from a late spawn that are about 3/4 inch long and since most jigs are bigger than 1/2 long it's impossible to match the hatch and tie anything that small so I broke these out. There's a dozen heads on the coin,I believe. The baits tied started out an inch long but by the time I was finished some were down to 3/4 inch. Hooks are tiny but I believe these might work on the stocker trout they just put in the lake.View attachment 6View attachment 7View attachment 8

 

[smalljaw]

Man, those will kill trout!!! How can you make such a nicely tied jig on a head that small, I thought 1/48oz was bad, my eyes would be bleeding after 1 of those! Really nice work, it takes good eyes and great talent to tie something that small, simply fantastic!

 

[Fatman]

Jim great looking ties for trout, and stockers should cream them!!! and the panfish should nail them too.

SJ - I've tied down to a #24 fly and I wear bi-focals!! Most of my flies are #10's -#18's. It's all proportions when you tie this small. If I can find the thread on my one fly tying board one of the guys did a dry fly on a size #32 dry fly hook!!! and you can see every detail on it. Believe me I said the same thing how the heck can you tie on something you can't see!!!!!!!LOL

 

[Ron Don]

Those are some good looking heads to be that dang small! Of course your dressing them up makes them look even better!

 

[JUNGLEJIM1]

The heads and eyes on these were already painted,had to break out the reading glasses for these. I might break out the 3wt. with these and fish them under an indicator.

 

[quivira kid]

Cold water flyrod crappie killers!!

 

[StumpHunter]

Great tyes. Those heads have a good profile and the finished jigs are awesome.

 

[Fatman]

Jim

Do those fish like bead heads?? on the fly rod??

 

[Fatman]

SJ - heres the page of tiny flies size 32's http://www.danica.com/flytier/sfp/sfp.htm

 

[JUNGLEJIM1]

Fm,those hatchery trout will eat anything. I used to keep some for friends years ago and examining their stomach contents was an experience. I don't keep them but like fishing for them,hoping for at least a couple jumps per fish. Once the survivors have been in the lake awhile they become more selective. I like small buggers,black and olive with a little angel hair added for flash.

 

[quivira kid]

Hatchery trout eat strike indicators on a regular basis.

 

[Fatman]

They feed them a liver based pellet here in Vermont at the hatchery and when they go and release them people use a hook with dark brown chenille wrapped on it!! Takes about a month for the taste of the food pellets to flush through them before I'd keep any.

 

[JUNGLEJIM1]

qk, I don't know how many times that's happened to me. Some take the indicator down for awhile before the spit it out. I've set the hook and foul hooked them in the tail a few times so now I wait for it to surface. Fm, lot's of people here make their own doughbaits from the hatchery pellets.They smash them up and add their own secret ingredients. They stock some of the lakes here twice a month during the winter months. I usually fish the lakes that aren't stocked and have the whole lake to myself.

 

[Fatman]

Sometimes it's fun to cut the hook off the fly and just cast it like that and have a bunch of fun

 

[smalljaw]

Even tough they're hatchery trout they still are trout and they do get selective, it is natural instinct. I remember the weather being good one year while I was still able to walk the banks and wade for trout, the fish commission stocked the trout earlier than normal and by the first day it was pretty warm. Why I remember it so well is because the warm weather caused some kind of gnat or bug hatch and they were all over and the fish were rising all over but no one could get a bite. All of a sudden an older gentleman caught a fish and then another and another, I walked up to him and low and behold, he was using a clear bobber with a hole drilled in it so it was filled with water and on that he had tied a fly of some sort, he said it was an emerger and what was hatching was something called a march brown and the fish were hitting them just before they hit the surface, once they got to the top the fish wouldn't eat them. That is pretty selective for hatchery fish if you ask me.

 

[Fatman]

Here's a pattern for a march brown nymph, you can also tie this on a jig

http://www.flyfishingconnection.com/patterns/flies/52/March+Brown+nymph