Home made Fligs

[jjannie]

We have been experimenting with our own flig making mimicking TDs creations. Ours never look as professional as his but the fish won't really care if presented properly.   So nice job. It's always fun catching on your own creations nonetheless.

Right on all counts.  The double whammy for using fligs is 1. presenting your baits up off the bottom and 2. providing some color and/or metallic flash for attraction.  Those things help draw in the fish.  If you are using the right bait the deal is sealed and you go bendo.  On some days it doesn't seem to matter much which color you use, but on other days the fish will show a marked preference.  I think it has to do more with what they can see best under prevailing conditions of depth, light intensity, water clarity, etc.  

As I mention in some of my writeups on fligs, I was given a couple of samples on a water in Arizona and found them to catch walleyes with worms much better than regular jig heads.  So I started the long road of making my own.  That was over 30 years ago...and my first attempts were pretty ugly.  But, again, they floated my crawlers and minnows up off the bottom with a bit of color and I caught fish on them.  Have killed and dismembered lots of foam pads since then.

There's still hope for me yet, LOL That's encouraging to know.