Here I am smitten by the jig tying bug… 
This happens every fall when its time to hit P-4. I have to quit as I am out of cement…but I wonder?
What is your favorite color(s) for the fall on the river?
In decent visability water I like the darker/natural colors, black, purple, green and brown… mixed in with some shad imitators with silver/white/blue. Otherwise the chartruese, bright blue, and bright green rule.
For pool 4 it’s red,red, and more red for me and the back up would be kelly green. 
I hear ya tom… Brown black and kelly green floats my boat. Hey do you use bucktail or synthetic hair… I perfer bucktail
Purple and white work well on Pool 8.
Nice looking jigs Tom.
In the fall Black, kelly green, dark purple… throw in a white from time to time and I’m good for the most part.
Black head, white & red eyes, purple w/ a “smig” of pink bucktail hair…. I like to refer to them as “JIMI HENDRIX” purple haze !! 
Nice looking jigs guys.
Sweet! Nice jigs!
Hey James, You hooked me on those Kelly greens one magic day when we fished the can line…that was amazing how those big Eyes smacked those little hair jigs…
BTW…dont overlook pink…
For me –
Chartreuse, Kelly Green, and White.
Typically in that order
Tom, ask James where the “Kelly Green” idea came from ?????? Sincerely, “Hairjig”
Couldn’t be the Hair Jig maestro, could it?
Btw…I prefer natural deer hair because it flares nicely when you cinch it down.
Couple of my favs…..
Along with the purple n white here…..
Nice ties James~!
nice jigs you ever use those on mill lacs had great luck with hairs on rocks this spring tipped with minnow
Great stuff guys,wish I had a journal of all the top-secret colors everyone believes in! Sometimes though,white is really under fished,and a weight change can outproduce the hot color in the wrong weight. Hint Hint!
I agree 100% Dean, That is why I have molds of 3/8, 5/16, 1/4, 3/16, 1/8, 3/32, & 1/16 oz. Those “in betweeners ” as I like to refer to them are oh so important depending on the current flow……. 
Not to hijack the thread but where are you gentlemen finding your bucktails anymore. Gander Mountain use to carry a good supply but they did away with them and Cabela’s has next to nothing. I am sure I can find some online but they vary so much from tail to tail that I like to look at them before I buy. I don’t tie but the boy does and when he gets home from overseas I have plans for him to crank out a whole pile of Redceck recipe—-our secret color. Hey Dean, did you ever try the ones the boy gave you????
Redneck, I go to either component or fly-tying shops, and the “deer hair” you want is not the coarse thick stuff from old deer , you want the hair from younger deer as it is easier to work with and has better undulation…
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Hey Dean, did you ever try the ones the boy gave you????
Of Course I did, but you know I was sworn to secrecy on that particular recipe!
Well Tom ,I guess its my turn to disclose my favorite Fall Jigs. Most favorite to least goes left to right with one secret color not shown ok,its white on pearl white head with a slight red core.
Sometimes I tie using shorter hair for meat jigs and longer hair for pitching/dragging jigs.
BTW..I buy all my deertail off Ebay.
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Not to hijack the thread but where are you gentlemen finding your bucktails anymore. Gander Mountain use to carry a good supply but they did away with them and Cabela’s has next to nothing. I am sure I can find some online but they vary so much from tail to tail that I like to look at them before I buy.
Four Seasons in Red Wing has a nice selection of hair jigs when I stopped in last Saturday.
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Well Tom ,I guess its my turn to disclose my favorite Fall Jigs.
Not sure if this was aimed at me or not Jeff, but I like the flatheads as well when I am working near the dam and current seams are the target. I prefer the fall run of fish over the spring and these have a profile very close to the shad that congregate behind and just ahead of the rollers about now. Color-wise my fav is purple over chartreuse.
I tied these bad boys up in several colors and in several sizes. My last trip to Alma had a low flow and 3/8 and 1/2 ounce jigs were fine right at the dam.
When I cast these jigs up I use a hook one size over the recommended size and I use Sickle hooks in my jigs.
My tails are ordered on-line as well and I usually get 100.00 worth at a pop in various colors. A suggestion for home tyers is to get at least two of each color when ordering. Some tails will be somewhat small, others look like an oriental hand fan. Some will have way more coarse hair than others. Seldom will one tail possess everything a guy needs and in quantity the price really comes down.
Another thought here is that hair found at the cut end [butt end] is going to be coarser and hollower than that found at the end of the tail. The coarse hair stands up nice when its cinched down and gives the jig a lot of height, sort of like a shad body, while the long thin, softer hair found on the end 1/2 of the tail will give the tyer a nice minnow shaded jig. Laying some of the fine hair on both side of the jig and then laying some of the coarser hair atop of that will give the jig a “full” look.
If the tyer has some longer, coarser Crystal Flash or tinsel, commonly used in Muskie-sized tinsel tailed spinners, try tying in one single long strand of a contrasting color before adding the bucktail, then trim the tinsel to no longer than the longest hair when the jig is finished.
Nice looking jigs everyone.
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