Willard has been good to me.

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Everything was caught at 10 to 12 feet, also, the water temp at 12 ft was only 1 degree cooler than the surface temp.


The top two are the gizzard shad, top view and side view.
Golden carp is next and cotton candy is the bottom one.

You do good work.  At least the fishies vote for it.

Might suggest some experiments for ya.  Try putting a blue glitter back on the shad...a black or purple back on the carp...and make a pink back instead of pink stripes on the cotton candy.  

I have made a lot of different color combos...with spots, stripes, vertical bars and all kinds of other "triggers".  They all seem to work at one time or another.  But the two things that seem to have the greatest "universal appeal" are 1. eyes and 2. A darker or brighter back color for contrast and accent.  After that, vertical bars become #3.

Don't know if you know how to work with wire or not, but if you do, you might wanna try adding some "bling" to your fligs.  You already have the center hole thing going.  Now if you run some wire down through the body...and string on some beads and blades...you can really kick up the appeal for wipers and walleyes.   Here are a couple of pics.  And if you would like to visit my playroom sometime I'd be happy to show you some tricks with the wire.

Congrats on the Early Success!
FRIGs are new to me, if you don't mind doing some schooling, how are the Floating Jigs fished for the Cats?
Do you Troll?

The main functions of the fligs are 1. present a bait above the bottom and 2.  add some color attraction.  They can be fished from shore...either by slow retrieving...or by just letting them sit.  Those of us who fish them from boat, float tube, yak or whatever find that keeping them moving helps cover more territory and adds some appeal as well.  As the sinker bounces over the bottom, the motion is translated to the flig floating up and behind.  

Here is a writeup with more info on fishing them.

Great info, thanks so much! If you are willing to part with any Extra Fligs you've created, I'd be glad to purchase. Thanks again.

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