Ladies & gentlemen (or anyone in between):
What is one to do when at the end of the day of fishing you find your hair to be a tangled, matted, unmanageable mess :crazy:?
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Due to the combined affects of the WI 10 day forecast, & my rekindled infatuation of the hair jig, I will attempt to demonstrate a route to better hair-management for anyone who cares.
The hair jig has to be one of, if not, the most productive yet overlooked presentations of all time. Although wildly popular years ago, sadly, only a handful of people seem to regularly make use of them these days. Over the years they have been pushed aside by plastic/rubber options . I myself ditched the use of them long ago...... until very recently. After having some moderate success using them as of late, I have decided to become more committed to the broader use/creation of them in my angling endeavors.
As such, after having some minor success using (& losing) the couple I made for a recent outing, I went on a bit of a "pouring/tying-terror", & made a few of what seemed to be working for me:
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So, in staying true to myself, I threw all I had tied into a small box in a rather unorganized fashion as I was heading out the door, with the epoxy overcoat barely past the tacky stage:
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By the end of the day, after switching jigs back & forth, I started to notice my jigs looking like this:
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Didnt take a whole day for my usual tackle storage habits to turn them into a snarly tangled mess.
After looking into some various fly-boxes, and other options, & more to the point, seeing what the pretentious fly-tackle manufacturers wanted for them, & realizing I have enough tacklebox-trays to fill a semi, decided to find a different way using what I already have. Found an unoccupied box to convert for the project. Next trick was to find a suitable material, closed-cell, rigid yet soft, to form a liner for the box. After looking came across this sitting in a clearance aisle for 5.99$ Probably enough foam to do a dozen boxes.:
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Used a little 3M spray adhesive to double up the thickness & a sharp knife to cut out the shape (cut it a touch bigger than actual size & no glue necessary to hold it in place inside the box).
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A little foam-sculpting with exacto-knife & dremel, and a snug. secure, adhesive-free fit was obtained.
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& there you have it, a hair-management system that even our former governor would be proud of :thumbup:
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What is one to do when at the end of the day of fishing you find your hair to be a tangled, matted, unmanageable mess :crazy:?
Due to the combined affects of the WI 10 day forecast, & my rekindled infatuation of the hair jig, I will attempt to demonstrate a route to better hair-management for anyone who cares.
The hair jig has to be one of, if not, the most productive yet overlooked presentations of all time. Although wildly popular years ago, sadly, only a handful of people seem to regularly make use of them these days. Over the years they have been pushed aside by plastic/rubber options . I myself ditched the use of them long ago...... until very recently. After having some moderate success using them as of late, I have decided to become more committed to the broader use/creation of them in my angling endeavors.
As such, after having some minor success using (& losing) the couple I made for a recent outing, I went on a bit of a "pouring/tying-terror", & made a few of what seemed to be working for me:
So, in staying true to myself, I threw all I had tied into a small box in a rather unorganized fashion as I was heading out the door, with the epoxy overcoat barely past the tacky stage:
By the end of the day, after switching jigs back & forth, I started to notice my jigs looking like this:
Didnt take a whole day for my usual tackle storage habits to turn them into a snarly tangled mess.
After looking into some various fly-boxes, and other options, & more to the point, seeing what the pretentious fly-tackle manufacturers wanted for them, & realizing I have enough tacklebox-trays to fill a semi, decided to find a different way using what I already have. Found an unoccupied box to convert for the project. Next trick was to find a suitable material, closed-cell, rigid yet soft, to form a liner for the box. After looking came across this sitting in a clearance aisle for 5.99$ Probably enough foam to do a dozen boxes.:
Used a little 3M spray adhesive to double up the thickness & a sharp knife to cut out the shape (cut it a touch bigger than actual size & no glue necessary to hold it in place inside the box).
A little foam-sculpting with exacto-knife & dremel, and a snug. secure, adhesive-free fit was obtained.
& there you have it, a hair-management system that even our former governor would be proud of :thumbup:
) old enough to remember walking into bait/tackle shops and seeing the aisles & walls filled with pinkies, jack crawfords, & other similar hand-tied products. The driving force in the decline of hair jigs was the advancements in platic/plastisol, IMO. Far more profitable for a manufacturer to produce & promote baits that they can turn out at a rate of 20-100 every few minutes, vs 1 at a time.
