Micro Jig

[shawncat]

Excellent jig.Have you guy's been following me around Bennitt? Great points on paint.Thanks.

[Thom]

Rollen:

Thanks for all of the great tips and advice I have also used spray pain and found it very good. When I am really into tying jigs and wan't a lot of colors and effects I spray them.

A good way I have found to set up the spray operation is to take a piece of pine and run my table saw blade up about 1/2 inch. I then saw a piece of soft pine lengthwise the full length of the board. The hooks then will go into the board and leave only the head sticking out. I can put 25 or more hooks depending on how long the board is into the sawn slot and paint them. I just leave them in the slot or if using epoxy I put them into the oven at about 100 degrees for an hour. Sounds like a lot of work but you can make lots of jig heads fast that way and then store them in boxes for later use. Spray paint also comes in bright gold colors that is hard to tell from the real shiny brass. There is also a copper paint that resembles the copper bead that I tie midges on that I use sometimes.

I keep these jigs in my travel kit in case I run out of tungsten, gold or copper beads on a trip and am getting low on a particular pattern.

Thom

[McManus]

I love it!

Honey, I need a new saw to tie these jigs up right! Naw---she'll never buy it.

[jOrOb]

I bought some 1/80th #10 heads at BPS over the weekend. They didn't have any 1/100th in Branson. Bought some gold and some unpainted. We will see how they turn out.

BTW, what is your favorite color jig???

[Thom]

The exact color that Dano shows in his post is by far my most productive colored jig. I gave a half dozen 1/100 to a friend that fished out of Lilly's last week. He is a novice and he caught tons of fish on them.

My second best producer is pink and then black with yellow tied on bottom and then brown. The olive almost always works though.

[Snow Fly]

Dano: You can also order jig heads from Weavers. I have ordered all the way down to 1/285. I think hook size is by the weight. They can tell you hook size by weight, nice people to deal with. Web is missouritrout.com/weavers/. Their phone 417-532-4618/e-mail weavers@missouritrout.com, they look to by still down from the ice strom.

[Danoinark]

Dano: You can also order jig heads from Weavers. I have ordered all the way down to 1/285. I think hook size is by the weight. They can tell you hook size by weight, nice people to deal with. Web is missouritrout.com/weavers/. Their phone 417-532-4618/e-mail weavers@missouritrout.com, they look to by still down from the ice strom.

Snow Fly, thanks for the heads up I will give them a call. Dano