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Offline kpIce

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Tying Your Own Jigs
« on: Dec 19, 2020, 08:02 PM »
I am new to ice fishing and live in the Jackson area fishing Jackson Lake and Slide Lake.  I have been tying my own jigs and wanted input on what colors and materials people have used that have been most effective?  The ones I have tied are mostly marabou and some rabbit strips.
 white, black, and chartreuse.  Heading out tomorrow morning with a few I have tied up.  Fingers crossed for my first fish through the ice.
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Offline meandcuznalfy

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Re: Tying Your Own Jigs
« Reply #1 on: Dec 19, 2020, 08:25 PM »
Those are all great colors, I used to tie up some wooly bugger jigs that worked pretty good.
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Re: Tying Your Own Jigs
« Reply #2 on: Dec 20, 2020, 12:06 AM »
I tie my own buck tail jigs mostly for walleye. White, chartreuse, and natural brown.. in rabbit strips there is a white with strips that looks real good and an olive with a green pumpkin head.  In the video section on Ice Shanty there a guy Jay Wirth .Has some great videos on the subject.
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Offline Noon

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Re: Tying Your Own Jigs
« Reply #3 on: Dec 20, 2020, 01:44 AM »
Those colors should do it IMO. I also tie purple because I grew up doing well with it open water fishing. I’ve had lots of luck with tying ice jigs that include a load of flashabou under a rabbit strip. 
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Offline kpIce

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Re: Tying Your Own Jigs
« Reply #4 on: Dec 20, 2020, 08:42 PM »
Made it out today and the jigs I tied didn't produce.  I did get a hit but missed the set.  Thanks for the info on jig colors.  Gotta keep trying to get that first fish through the ice.
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Offline joefishmore

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Re: Tying Your Own Jigs
« Reply #5 on: Dec 21, 2020, 04:32 PM »
What kind of fish are you going for ?
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Offline joefishmore

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Re: Tying Your Own Jigs
« Reply #6 on: Dec 21, 2020, 04:32 PM »
What kind of fish are you going for ?
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Offline kpIce

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Re: Tying Your Own Jigs
« Reply #7 on: Dec 22, 2020, 12:54 PM »
Fishing Slide Lake and Jackson Lake.  Mostly lake trout in Jackson Lake with the occasional brown or cutthroat.  Slide Lake for cutthroat (and cutbows) and smaller lake trout.  Not specific on targeting at this point, just looking for my first through the ice.  I don't have a fish flasher so it is a lot of hand auger holes and jigging.   
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Offline huntinfool18

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Re: Tying Your Own Jigs
« Reply #8 on: Dec 22, 2020, 12:59 PM »
Can never go wrong with white. Specially with lake trout
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Re: Tying Your Own Jigs
« Reply #9 on: Dec 23, 2020, 09:20 AM »
I wouldn’t count your jigs out yet. Those lakes are hard to get a strike with any jig most of the time.
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Re: Tying Your Own Jigs
« Reply #10 on: Dec 23, 2020, 02:00 PM »
What other lures or techniques should I try outside of jigging?
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Re: Tying Your Own Jigs
« Reply #11 on: Dec 23, 2020, 09:46 PM »
Spoons and jigging rapalas. Tons of YouTube on both
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Offline MackMan23

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Re: Tying Your Own Jigs
« Reply #12 on: Dec 24, 2020, 02:53 PM »
Keep plugging with your jigs...sometimes natural colors such as your browns, olives, and blacks work wonders...they can imitate small minnows and sculpins...stick to your guns and you will be rewarded with something slimy or scaly I'm sure...good luck and keep tying
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