The Color Purple

Pup

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Materials:
  • A 1/8-oz. ball head jig with a #2 hook
  • Orbit/Pro-Tec/Harbor Freight Powder Paint Mixture - dark purple
  • FlyMasters (Wapsi) Flashabou Accent - red
  • Coats Trilobal Polyester Embroidery Thread (40 wt.) - electric violet
  • Troll hair (craft fur) - purple
  • Tandy Premium Leather Remnant - purple

Preparing for early spring largemouth bass fishing. Tied some hairy worms in purple, a favorite color of mine for largemouth.
 

redman

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Right fine ties there Pup. Hope that you catch some of those early season Largemouth Bass. Those should do the trick.

Redman
 

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Pup - Absolutly COOL!!!!!!!!! Great ties buddy!!!!!!! The fish are gonna love those!!

Love the paint mix - Care to share??

And where did you find that troll fur???? That is a great color
 

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To look at purple has never been one of my favorite colors. But the fish do not share my worthless opinion especially bass.

As a testament to your skill those jigs are downright awesome even though the color is not my favorite. Way back when bass was the only thing I fished for. I had a huge water witch ( remember those ) in the most hideous purple color you have ever seen. That thing wore out huge pond bass for what ever reason .

Forgot to add while those are great looking jigs. I don't know if they will fetch the asking price of 779.95. Of course if you are going to negotiate I guess its ok to start a little north of what you actually want. LOL
 

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Thank you for your comments Everyone. :)

Fatman said:
Pup - Absolutly COOL!!!!!!!!! Great ties buddy!!!!!!! The fish are gonna love those!!

Love the paint mix - Care to share??

And where did you find that troll fur???? That is a great color

FM,

My recipe for this paint mixture is:
  • 3 parts Orbit Clear
  • 2-2.5 parts Pro-Tec purple powder
  • 1 part Harbor Freight matte black powder
The troll came from a Dollar General Store. I bought it for less than a dollar and tied five jigs with its hair.

papaperch said:
To look at purple has never been one of my favorite colors. But the fish do not share my worthless opinion especially bass.

As a testament to your skill those jigs are downright awesome even though the color is not my favorite. Way back when bass was the only thing I fished for. I had a huge water witch ( remember those ) in the most hideous purple color you have ever seen. That thing wore out huge pond bass for what ever reason .

Forgot to add while those are great looking jigs. I don't know if they will fetch the asking price of 779.95. Of course if you are going to negotiate I guess its ok to start a little north of what you actually want. LOL

The jigs are free, but only to largemouth bass. ;) Thanks for the nice comments Papaperch.
 

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Never cease to amaze Pup....Beautiful work.... Love the mix...


Papa I know Im sheltered out here ,but what is a water witch ???
 

hookup

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Nice job Pup.

Old time jig tyer (Phil Shaeffer) got me into purple rabbit hair. Bass sure do love them.

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Pup - yeah the guys got me hooked on the clear powder paint too!!!!!!!!

On the Water Witch were you talking the fly, spinner or crankbait????
 
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