Post Thanksgiving Blues

[QPassage]

Dang man I'm still stuffed, but I slept well after all the turkey and other fixens. I'm thankful for meeting with family and just as thankful it is over.
Back to work today ugh! I'm hoping the rest of ya have the day off. If ya do and you're tying today. I'd enjoy seeing a Post Turkey tie today.
A quick tie this morning for ya.
"Pardon Me I'm a Turkey" the one that survived!

Ok off to work and time to be thinking Christmas.

 

[Pepop]

Here's a couple I tied late last night. Thinking about that wonderful Punkin Pie!

Then after so much great food, I was "red faced" & " swollen feet" & a bit "Green Around the Gills"! LOL!

 

[QPassage]

Pepop I'd really like to learn to tie those jigs you tie. Every time you post one I'm like a kid in a candy shop staring at it, trying to figure out how you do that. I'm very inexperienced at wrapping the crystal chenille. Do you have any tutorials on the process?

 

[Pepop]

Pepop I'd really like to learn to tie those jigs you tie. Every time you post one I'm like a kid in a candy shop staring at it, trying to figure out how you do that. I'm very inexperienced at wrapping the crystal chenille. Do you have any tutorials on the process?

Thanks QP, you're very kind. I'm sorry but I really don't know what I'm doing. LOL! Seriously though, when a friend sent me a dozen 1' long samples of that #10 Tinsel chenille, I was reluctant, thought it was going to be hard to wrap it & keep it "fluffed up", and not flattened & laid back. Well, I was skeerd for no reason. The first jigs I tied with it (& posted as "Tied with BIG Chenille") turned out fine. One thing I did discover kinda by accident is that having a Rotary vise helps because as I wrap by rotating the jig, I kinda move my hand holding the chenille from side to side (so as not to wrap it on itself). Just get you some and start wrapping & you'll see, there's nothing to it! I mean, if I can do it, ANYBODY CAN!

 

[SlabHappy]

Here's a couple I tied late last night. Thinking about that wonderful Punkin Pie!

Then after so much great food, I was "red faced" & " swollen feet" & a bit "Green Around the Gills"! LOL!

Nice ties Pepop. I like those.

 

[eyecrosser]

Nice work guys, too stuffed to head to the basement and tie so thought I'd check in here. Something else I do to bulk up a chenille body when I like the color but a bit thin for the jig is to use old yarn or cheap chenille under my main color. Just tie both to the back end of hook, wrap the bulk 1st, then overlay your desired color. Sometimes a little superglue on the bulk underbody to lock it down securely. Again, nice jigs guys.

 

[QPassage]

Last one I tied last night.

Daracuda

 

[Pepop]

Last one I tied last night.

Daracuda

That's another nice tie Q! I really like that paint job! :icon14::icon14:

 

[eyecrosser]

Very nice work, I'll take 10LOL

 

[QPassage]

Thank you for the complements.
Paint is Bright Green, then a quick dip into a transparent Gold, tipped with Ruby Slipper Red, 3mm red 3d eyes. As you know I name all of my jigs that one is Daracuda.
Body I started with piece SKILTON 8 MYLAR BRAIDED TUBING black, red Christmas tinsel I found at Wally World last week, 2 Duck feathers and 210 denier Black thread.
Dec 12th can't get here soon enough, I should have said the heck with work this weekend and went. My buddies were tearing them up at Dale Hollow yesterday.

 

[LedHed]

Great lookin tyes guys - impressive.