My Jig/Spinnerbait Skirt Tying Secrets 

Thank you Lord for brother Randy. God bless you brother i been researching different ways to hand tie a jig. Been working on a few jigs here and their. Also I know this video is 2 years old now but your dad is in my prayers

I couldn’t find a skirt band tool like Randy shows anywhere. Then I remembered a pair of Snap Ring Pliers (NOT split ring) that I used for one repair and never took out of the tool cabinet again. They work great for stretching the rubber band open while I thread the skirt material through. I always wire tie the skirt and then remove the rubber band after it’s tied.

Prayers for your dad. Thanks for another great tutorial.

Randy, thanks for this tutorial on skirts. I continue to pray for your dad and your family. I am praying that your dad has a speedy recovery.

My family runs a small tackle company Fuji Custom Tackle on Facebook. Just as a hobby to fund our own fishing habits. I tie many skirts. Daytime, night time spinner baits and jigs. Thanks for sharing your style.

Praying for your family and health of your Dad. God bless.

Wish your Dad a speedy recovery!

Awesome video. Thanks for taking the time to show us. I had 3 skirts come off this past weekend.

Best wishes to your Dad & your entire family !!!

We’re praying for your Dad Randy and for you. Being concerned about and taking care of somebody you love is taxing. God give you strength, keep the faith. Thanks for the tutorial.

Cool video, I have been making my own jigs for years and nothing is more satisfying than hooking a fish on something you make.

My pray is with your dad for tomorrow’s procedure. Thank you very much

Great video Randy that you for showing how you do this. Praying for you dad that the doctor's can get him fixed up and God will give him a fast and complete recovery and he will be home quickly.

I’ve been tying you own jigs and spinner baits for years. A few years ago I got into making my own plastics. It’s really not a money saver just more satisfying. I really got into the plastic baits because I wanted specific color trailers for some of my jig designs. It’s just so satisfying making and catching fish on your own creations. I have several molds I have bought as well as made. It’s kinda addictive.

Great tip. Thanks Randy.

No hat today! Nice. Hope Dad is fine an thanks for the tips once again

Awesome video! I am learning a lot from your channel!

Awesome! Thanks Randy for all you do for us regular guys! Best wishes for your Dad

Prayers and best wishes for your father!!

Prayers for your dad and your family.

Thanks for the demonstration

Good to hear your dad is doing better

Truley hope your dad feels well soon and can find happiness even through all the lame surgerys! Hope for a speedy recovery. Strength and love

I hope he does well. Mabey a stint. I had a Lad bi-pass in 2014 and doing good what doctors can do is amazing. Y’all are in my prayers. Thank you Randy

Continued prayers for your dad, Randy ! And as always thank you for sharing your knowledge with us !

express yourself with a custom jig , started retrieving lost tackle at the river .new hooks ,paint ,a new skirt. catching bass on your custom baits is fun ,making molds of plaster an start pouring plastic baits to match a jig collar . boss tackle have everything to make a great jig .praying for your family an speedy recovery for dad ,looking forward to on the water vids , Boss tackle is the supply, best wishes ,praying for a rapid recovery for your dad,thanks for helping fine tune our lures , ☀️

If you don't want to get another special tool to keep track of, I just use a regular pair of needle nose pliers (or split-ring pliers if you have them) to spread open the collar, then roll the collar onto the outside of a 1/2" outside diameter tube (a wacky-rig o-ring tube should work if you already have one of those). Slide the skirt strands into the tube, roll the collar off, and you're good to go. I also use surgical tubing for skirt collars. It's cheap, easy to get at most hardware stores, and I almost always have it laying around anyway since it's pretty useful in general. 1/4" diameter or so is about the right size.

Prayers for your dad!

Prayers for Dad. I hope the outcome is good with his procedure and pray for speedy recovery

Randy, I really appreciate the depth of great content you share from all the many yrs of fishing and give to us free. I’m happy that guys can use this platform to be paid for all of your knowledge. Thanks again!!

Can’t wait to see the video about how well your dad is doing......real soon!

My thoughts and prayers are with your dad and your family.

Thanks Randy for sharing your Experience with another Great Video. Prayers Up for your Dad & a Healthy Recovery.

Thanks for sharing

Thoughts and prayers for you and your family.

This is a very timely video, the pike have been tearing my stuff up. Thanks!

Hope everything goes well with your dad and he has a speedy recovery!!

Hope your dad gets well soon 🇺🇸👍

Good to hear he is getting better praying he has no more issues.

Hi Randy, I'm sorry to hear about your dad's illness. I will add him to my prayers and hope for a speedy recovery !

Cool good stuff thanks 😊,,, hope for the best with dad

Thank you Randy!

Prayers out to pop

Thank you for the video Randy I prefer to watch videos that I can learn something and I did with yours. You have some great information to share and I really appreciate it. I will keep a good thought for your Dad.

Great video. Prayers for your Dad.

Praying for your dad and your family. God bless

Thanks!

prayers for your dad & hoping for a quick recovery for him

Prayers for you're dad and family I am recovering from a heart attack my self in February currently still in rehab it is amazing for recovery make sure you're dad takes the rehab

Great information Randy...As a manufacturer of both spinnerbaits and jigs I have transcended the use of silicone skirts...The reason why is many but basically lost faith in using the materials you do...First of all when I first got into skirt production I found those little rubber bands would break free after a time of use...Therefore all those pretty skirts you spent time creating would just simply fall off...I could of continued on with thread tying skirts onto bodies...Personally though I pushed the envelope and bought a fly tying vice that could be set up virtually anywhere...I first started off tying rabbit fur zonkered skirts with great success but also found inherent problems with using zonkers like fish eating the tails and rot forming in the leather strips if not air dried properly...I then moved onto Deer hair and created more successful skirt recipes that have continued catching many fish species...I have since graduated on and now tie silicone skirt strips in combination with feathers, deer hair, rabbit fur and Krystal flash Mylar in various colour finishes including UV chenille over the top of the skirt combination design...I can carry bare frames blade and skirt them in the field or boat and like you create baitfish patterns during a tournament...I believe versatility is the key...Now I know a lot of guys tie stripped rubber or silicone skirts claiming all sorts of success and reasons why one should use those materials...Personally I make skirts that perform virtually with the same behavioural traits as in the way you do with your skirt creations...The biggest difference apart from materials is I tie my skirts onto the jig /spinnerbait bodies so they can never fall apart...As for the skirt tool you use there is another one available on the market for the novice to buy... it comes in the form of a pen body..you slip your rubber band keeper over the bottom body and use a wire with hook to pull your skirt tabs through the pen body then roll the rubber off the end of the pen body to create your skirt/s...No way is the right way of doing it but I thought you may of been interested in knowing how I make my skirts... Great to hear your father is getting better too...regards B.J.

I tie my own flies never thought about tying a jig 😜

Nice tutorial, thanks Randy! I've always wondered how hard it would be to hand tie skirts and if it would be worth it or not. My OCD kicks in with my skirts and I would love it if I could keep them from twisting and getting out of shape by tieing them

Hey Randy, I always appreciate your info. I wish you could get to the content on your videos quicker than the 2 minutes that it takes but your content is always very valuable. I especially like these types of videos!

Very interesting.. Didn't know you had opinion like that .. Thanks Randy... To bad your Dad won't be home for Father's day.. The Frye Guy..

Still praying 🙏 he gets better soon

I hope everything goes well with your dad. I found your channel searching for fishing tips and I have found your videos very interesting and I appreciate every information that you share with us. I'll try your techniques here un Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 to see which one to apply for my upcoming tournaments.

Add the smallest zip tie after skirts is on and it will not slide down or fall apart when the rubber ring deteriorates.

Hopefully he will get better soon!

Wish your dad a full and speedy recovery..

Hey randy love your videos thinking about going to the rock end of October how’s the fishing then never be wanting to try it out lmk keep the videos coming 👍

Praying for you and your family!!!!

Thanks for the update on your Dad. My prayers continue for his recovery and for the strength, peace of heart and mind for you and the whole family. This is the perfect video for me as this is something I have been wanting to dive into during my retirement. I plan to completely create my own jigs(pouring, shaping, powder coating and tying. Do you have a specific skirt company you prefer and that you would recommend. You have such diverse content Randy, my favorite channel(sorry Jonny🤣). I look fwd to seeing what you are covering next every day!

So weird when he said Joplin because that's where I live. Crazy a guy I look up to so much lives an hour from me.

Prayers

Sorry about your dad being sick Prayers sent

Please don't label me as a "Hater" or a "Arm Chair fisherman" . I've been fishing 30+ years .... This is skirt building . They are still banded . A "tied" skirt is tied with wire or thread tied on a vise . I respect your fishing Randy - just saying.... Good lookin jig Sir

Randy, great video, I have been looking for a skirt tying tool for some time with no luck. Any suggestions on where I can get one?

Continued prayers for your Dad

Hope your dad gets well soon

I do mostly the same thing. I use 2 and half to 2 and 3 quarter strips. I make mine look all perfect. Lol.. I'll rough one of the skirts up and play with it and see what I think. I'm really interested in what got you to chop your skirts like that? Did you feel you caught more fish on an old tore up one? Or just trying to show the fish something different.

Hey Randy. Have you ever used a Sovereign spinner bait buck tail jig? Used one for the first time ever today on the Occoquan River. Nothing was working and then my buddy handed me a lure. I tied off his sovereign spinner jig and immediately started catching fish. Bass, bluegill, yellow perch and even a blue catfish. I was in 2-4 feet of water over grass beds. Any insight on these sovereign lures would be awesome.

People always ask me where I get my jigs I just smile and tell them where to get the stuff to make them

My mom going through it also but they using something new ITS NOT RAD OR KEM SOMETHING NEW AND NO PORT NOW SHE BEAT LUNG 5 YEARS AGO WITH KEM BUT TRYING THIS NEW THING SO FAR SHE BEEN DOING WELL AND NO HAIR LOST AT ALL AT 77 YEARS OLD..... WE WILL BE PRAYING FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY......

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Can you make a RU-vid short one how to put a trailer on a lunker jig! I can figure out how to get a jig between the hook and lunker part without destroying the bottom of the jig.

Where can I get a skirt tool like you have

What is the name of the tool? Thank you for your content

Hope pops is okay!

Where can you get those pliers and what are they called?

Can you link where to buy the skirts?

What brand of skirts are you using Randy?

Hey Randy, where can I get one of those tools to hold the skirt band open? What’s it called? Thanks. If you’ll give me that info, I’ll start tying my own jigs!

Now can you talk about how you change colors based on conditions?

Where do you buy your skirt material

We will keep praying for your dad.

Praying for your dad.

Is randy going in a date? Hes all gussied up

Praying for your Father 🎣

Good Video. Hope your dad is doing better every day. That "plier like" skirt tool you show is virtually unavailable from my internet search. Not really helpful when putting together a "tutorial". There is another tool that the skirt making supply houses (JansNetCraft, Barlows Tackle, Lure PartsOnline) sell that is cheap and easy to use.

Appreciate all your fine tips but have to be honest, that's one ugly jig.