Do you love big bluegill?

FIRST TIE- "SPRING CRICKET"

Needed to tie something real quick for ice fishing that resembled a floating spider I used last spring

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Comment by Allen Morgan on May 9, 2015 at 6:23pm: Yeah, I've seen that. Guy catches some amazing Crappie!

Comment by Slip Sinker on May 9, 2015 at 6:02pm: Allen ... check out this video... buck tail from fresh road kill and he ties the jigs right out on the ice.

Comment by Slip Sinker on May 1, 2015 at 7:07am: thanks Eric... i think it is a good bait choice for whats going on now ... all these gills zooming the shallows. might be any jig with a slow fall. and hey i think gills are suckers for rubber legs.

Comment by Allen Morgan on May 1, 2015 at 5:11am: Yeah, once you get a successful pattern, you want to do different sizes of that pattern, just like in fly fishing.

Winter is the prime time for picking up roadkill. There are no active insects that will infest the dead critter. Once it warms up, I leave all roadkill alone, UNLESS I hit the critter myself, or saw it get hit and can pick it up immediately.

Being up in MI, you'll really want to look at roadkill deer carcasses. Those tails! Prime Northern Whitetail bucktails, long hair and FULL! Curing a tail isn't the easiest thing; you have to get them clean of all fat, and the skin is rather thick. This is, of course, if it's legal. Check the laws in Michigan. Some states don't allow people to pick up roadkill fur-bearing critters without a Trapping License.

Comment by Eric Pierce on April 30, 2015 at 7:43pm: Congrats Slip sinker....knew those where hunters buddy....I would make more than a few of those my friend....

Comment by Slip Sinker on April 30, 2015 at 7:13pm: i think im going to make some 1/32 oz versions...

caught a 9.1" incher this afternoon on it ...

Comment by Slip Sinker on April 30, 2015 at 7:00pm: Lol Allen! ... it hasnt really infected me yet ... i passed (3) road kills today on the way to the lake and didnt flinch... im going back tomorrow ...hehe

Comment by Allen Morgan on April 30, 2015 at 6:53pm: Yeah, just wait, Slip Sinker! The lint trap in your dryer is a good source of dubbing. Friends and family will not let you near family pets if you have a pair of scissors in your hand. Roadkill takes on a whole new meaning. You start making friends with hunters, or become one yourself. You develop a collection of fingernail polishes that rivals, and eventually exceeds, your wife's collection.

Ask me how I know.......

Yes, it is indeed, a very slippery slope.....

Comment by Eric Pierce on April 30, 2015 at 7:21am: That's the other part.....the feeling of catching fish on things you have created....nothing else like it my friend....