While soft plastic jig bodies have been holding the attention of most anglers, new tying materials have opened new possibilities for bucktail jigs. Check out any of the local, well-stocked tackle ...

For more info on tying jigs check out bigbluegill.com for tutorials and chuckanddebs.com for tying supplies and materials at the best price around. Good tying! Jim Gronaw is a Times outdoors writer.

Here’s a selection of Slim Jim bucktail jigs from my tying desk. The heads are poured on an aluminum jig mold I made back in the early 1970s.

Only Herters and Universal Vice, both now gone, were larger. Lacey had a gang of women tying flies and jigs in their homes, and he bought and packaged fly tying materials which were distributed ...