Hair jig painting/tying how to

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Once cured, we are ready to tie the tail. I’ll do a simple bucktail here with two colors. I start by winding the thread onto the neck of the jig (photo 5). I’m using Gudebrod rod winding thread in size A. Some folks like the kevlar thread, but I find it will cut the bucktail if you torque down to much. We’ll start by tying in the blue for the belly. Cut off a section of tail about as big around as your pinky finger, lay it on the neck of the jig so that the end is as far past the hook bend as you want, then wrap the thread around a few times (photo 6). You do not want to torque down on the thread at this point.