05-05-2003, 10:50 PM
If making my own jigs is as "cost effective" as making my own flies, I better not. If I calculate the actual cost of a single fly, it is much cheaper than the store. However, if I count the total price of all the tying equipment and materials divided by the actual number of flies I have made, it is probably cheaper to buy them from the store [shocked]. I tie for the creative aspect of it. Seeing some of you jigs gets the old creative juices going, especially those roadrunners you make up.
Tell you what, let me learn how to use jigs first before I start melting lead. My track record with them is not so hot. If you have any knowledge (aka reading material) on how in the world to fish with jigs effectively, I would love to read it. As you know, I do a ton of reading while I'm here at work. My main questions revolve around matching presentation to structure/spieces and more importantly detecting the take.
i could write an adequate treatise on the above questions for fly-fishing, but the whole jig thing . . . [blush]
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Tell you what, let me learn how to use jigs first before I start melting lead. My track record with them is not so hot. If you have any knowledge (aka reading material) on how in the world to fish with jigs effectively, I would love to read it. As you know, I do a ton of reading while I'm here at work. My main questions revolve around matching presentation to structure/spieces and more importantly detecting the take.
i could write an adequate treatise on the above questions for fly-fishing, but the whole jig thing . . . [blush]
ES
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