Red-N-White Leather Swimmer

[Pup]

Thanks to Mr. Hippel for introducing me to tying with weighted EWG-style hooks. This is my first attempt with a red 3/0 Vicious Vertical Drop Hook weighing 1/8 of an ounce.



Used a Tandy Premium Leather strip for the body and red Ultra Thread (210 denier) to tie. The eyes are a 3/16-inch Spirit River dumbbell in nickel/pearl. Powder painted the weight with white powder from Harbor Freight.

The tail is fluted towards its tip. Hopefully, this will produce a sinusoidal swimming action behind the jig hook. Sinusoidal...I like that word.

More to come later on Gamakatsu hooks.

 

[CrappieHappy]

nice work Pup, let us know how it does....

 

[smalljaw]

Now that is different!!! Let us know what it looks like in the water!!! I bet that will get killed, really out of the box thinking and adding the dumbell eyes is great, that has got to catch fish!!

 

[StumpHunter]

Now that is a jig that will give the fish something new to look at. Be sure to post the pictures of the bass you catch while using it

 

[Pup]

Thank you for your comments Guys.

Will try to post some pictures of catches along with a report soon.

 

[Fatman]

Pup

Great looking tie!! The fish should love that long tail waving in the water.

 

[Radtexan]

Well done...

 

[Pup]

Thanks for your comments FM and RT.

 

[JSC]

Looks Like it will do the job ... Now lets see some of the fish

 

[Pup]

Thanks JSC.

 

[Pup]

This one is my second edition. Tied on a spike tail leather strip and added some grizzly craft fur behind the weight. Who knows if it will make a difference? Regardless, it looks kind of cool to me.

 

[bombora]

Wow, innovation again Pup. Guys in our tropical waters where everything has teeth, and plastics get mauled too often, would love em. Perfect for Barramundi!