# Home made Fligs **URL:** \ **Category:** Utah Fishing General\ **Created:** [September 16, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/home-made-fligs/459306 "2024-09-16T02:56:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TubeDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 11:49am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/home-made-fligs/459306/1 "2024-09-16T11:49:28Z")
> [@lifeshort](#): > > Watched TubeDudes YouTube on flig making and decided to give it a go. Made up a handful and headed for the lake. Pats sure look a lot nicer than mine. Maybe after a couple thousand mine will look nicer. > Baited up 2 rods with mine and 2 rods with the real thing. Cats seemed to like them both. Ended up with 20. 3 over 30". About half were on my homemade ones. Thanks for the help Pat. > pics are the homemade ones > > ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/bigfishtackle/original/3X/2/b/2b3014fda703c8e4697fb0cd28a73b6915b2cd79.jpeg)]([20240913 111001 — Postimages](https://postimg.cc/nCrPCXyw)) > > ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/bigfishtackle/original/3X/3/d/3da601b55c82f2286548f2a3bad5a103bd234be9.jpeg)]([20240913 114652 — Postimages](https://postimg.cc/LJwXrZSd)) > > **Excellent. If they look good to the fish it don’t make no never mind how they look to the angler. Far too many of the lures sold commercially do a better job of catching fishermen than catching fish. The offer is always open if you wanna come up for a show and tell on some of the refinements of flig making. Took me a lot of years and a lot of foam to refine my techniques. But I’m always happy to help others shorten the learning curve.** ---
**Author:** ![Kent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kent](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Kent)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/home-made-fligs/459306/2 "2024-09-16T13:50:47Z")
Don, you did good. ---
**Author:** ![jjannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jjannie](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/jjannie)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/home-made-fligs/459306/3 "2024-09-16T16:04:45Z")
> [@lifeshort](#): > > Watched TubeDudes YouTube on flig making and decided to give it a go. Made up a handful and headed for the lake. Pats sure look a lot nicer than mine. Maybe after a couple thousand mine will look nicer. > Baited up 2 rods with mine and 2 rods with the real thing. Cats seemed to like them both. Ended up with 20. 3 over 30". About half were on my homemade ones. Thanks for the help Pat. > pics are the homemade ones > > ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/bigfishtackle/original/3X/2/b/2b3014fda703c8e4697fb0cd28a73b6915b2cd79.jpeg)]([20240913 111001 — Postimages](https://postimg.cc/nCrPCXyw)) > > ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/bigfishtackle/original/3X/3/d/3da601b55c82f2286548f2a3bad5a103bd234be9.jpeg)]([20240913 114652 — Postimages](https://postimg.cc/LJwXrZSd)) > > We have been experimenting with our own flig making mimicking TDs creations. Ours never look as professional as his but the fish won’t really care if presented properly. So nice job. It’s always fun catching on your own creations nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![TubeDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/home-made-fligs/459306/4 "2024-09-16T16:19:32Z")
> [@jjannie](#): > > We have been experimenting with our own flig making mimicking TDs creations. Ours never look as professional as his but the fish won’t really care if presented properly. So nice job. It’s always fun catching on your own creations nonetheless. > > \*\*Right on all counts. The double whammy for using fligs is 1. presenting your baits up off the bottom and 2. providing some color and/or metallic flash for attraction. Those things help draw in the fish. If you are using the right bait the deal is sealed and you go bendo. On some days it doesn’t seem to matter much which color you use, but on other days the fish will show a marked preference. I think it has to do more with what they can see best under prevailing conditions of depth, light intensity, water clarity, etc. \*\* > > **As I mention in some of my writeups on fligs, I was given a couple of samples on a water in Arizona and found them to catch walleyes with worms much better than regular jig heads. So I started the long road of making my own. That was over 30 years ago…and my first attempts were pretty ugly. But, again, they floated my crawlers and minnows up off the bottom with a bit of color and I caught fish on them. Have killed and dismembered lots of foam pads since then.** > > ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/bigfishtackle/original/3X/0/a/0a8dc8eb997d44fb0ef563ff3e802f1c80c96e42.jpeg)]([EARLY 2 — Postimages](https://postimg.cc/GThf1Jg9)) ---
**Author:** ![jjannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jjannie](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/jjannie)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/home-made-fligs/459306/5 "2024-09-16T18:43:31Z")
> [@TubeDude](#): > > > [@jjannie](#): > > > > We have been experimenting with our own flig making mimicking TDs creations. Ours never look as professional as his but the fish won’t really care if presented properly. So nice job. It’s always fun catching on your own creations nonetheless. > > \*\*Right on all counts. The double whammy for using fligs is 1. presenting your baits up off the bottom and 2. providing some color and/or metallic flash for attraction. Those things help draw in the fish. If you are using the right bait the deal is sealed and you go bendo. On some days it doesn’t seem to matter much which color you use, but on other days the fish will show a marked preference. I think it has to do more with what they can see best under prevailing conditions of depth, light intensity, water clarity, etc. \*\* > > **As I mention in some of my writeups on fligs, I was given a couple of samples on a water in Arizona and found them to catch walleyes with worms much better than regular jig heads. So I started the long road of making my own. That was over 30 years ago…and my first attempts were pretty ugly. But, again, they floated my crawlers and minnows up off the bottom with a bit of color and I caught fish on them. Have killed and dismembered lots of foam pads since then.** > > ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/bigfishtackle/original/3X/0/a/0a8dc8eb997d44fb0ef563ff3e802f1c80c96e42.jpeg)]([EARLY 2 — Postimages](https://postimg.cc/GThf1Jg9)) > > There’s still hope for me yet, LOL That’s encouraging to know. ---
**Author:** ![tktmsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@tktmsa](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/tktmsa)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/home-made-fligs/459306/6 "2024-09-16T19:11:45Z")
Nice! I too have made I’ve made 20-30 fligs of all colors and sizes. Pat is the man. Now, I have to get on the water somehow. ---
**Author:** ![mule\_skinner45](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6f9a4e/32.png) [@mule\_skinner45](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/mule_skinner45)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/home-made-fligs/459306/7 "2024-09-20T12:42:48Z")
Are you guys trolling those behind bottom bouncers? ---
**Author:** ![jjannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jjannie](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/jjannie)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2024, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/home-made-fligs/459306/8 "2024-09-21T15:49:21Z")
> [@mule\_skinner45](#): > > Are you guys trolling those behind bottom bouncers? > > Bottom bouncers do work, you can also use 3-way swivels and even trolling sinkers - we’ve used them all. ---
**Author:** ![TubeDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/home-made-fligs/459306/9 "2024-09-21T16:48:54Z")
> [@mule\_skinner45](#): > > Are you guys trolling those behind bottom bouncers? > > **Lots of ways to rig and fish fligs…depending on the water you’re fishing, the species you are after and whether you are fishing from shore or afloat.  Some folks even fish them like dry flies or poppers with a fly rod.  Here is a writeup on the subject.[attachment=1950]** > > **Also, a video I put together [LINK TO VIDEO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v3pDtYDsZs)** [FISHING FLIGS.pdf](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/uploads/short-url/qNXYVWgaHhG9gjh0I6bzI9ViQum.pdf) ---
**Author:** ![lifeshort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3bc359/32.png) [@lifeshort](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/lifeshort)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/home-made-fligs/459306/10 "2024-09-16T02:56:38Z")
Watched TubeDudes YouTube on flig making and decided to give it a go. Made up a handful and headed for the lake. Pats sure look a lot nicer than mine. Maybe after a couple thousand mine will look nicer. Baited up 2 rods with mine and 2 rods with the real thing. Cats seemed to like them both. Ended up with 20. 3 over 30". About half were on my homemade ones. Thanks for the help Pat. pics are the homemade ones ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/bigfishtackle/original/3X/2/b/2b3014fda703c8e4697fb0cd28a73b6915b2cd79.jpeg)]([20240913 111001 — Postimages](https://postimg.cc/nCrPCXyw)) ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/bigfishtackle/original/3X/3/d/3da601b55c82f2286548f2a3bad5a103bd234be9.jpeg)]([20240913 114652 — Postimages](https://postimg.cc/LJwXrZSd))