I have been using living rubber for my skirts for many years and thought I would share the process. I am using one of the best spinner bait skirts ever made, in Cold Slaw, for the example. You start with the rolls of skirt material cutting the tabs in 5 inch lengths.

Cold Slaw - Cutting the Tabs in 20 strands for a total of 60. I add a few more for the jig skirts.



The Oil Bath - Living Rubber is great to add scent. I use Minnow and Night Crawler Pure Extract for 24 hours.



Banding the Skirt Material - This makes it easier to seperate the strands and helps in hand tying the skirts with copper wire.



Separating the strands - I use a sharp object like my split ring pliers to do this.



Hand Tying - I use the .20 copper wire; then remove the band to be used again.



Finished Product - Skirt is on one of my Custom Spinner Baits. This is the one we slay the Bass on in Mexico.

See that device in pic. #4; it is a great set of split ring pliers.

It is good boisarc. I have a few others that are great also. I just made several for Mike Keenan and as soon as the juice is dry enough to get them to flair out I will post pictures to see what you thank.

Few skirts I made for a friend.
1. Fire Tiger/Orange
2. Fire Tiger
3. Blue/Chart./White
4. Coleslaw
5. Crappie
6. Talapia/Purple
7. Talapia/Brown/Orange Specks
8. 3 Jig Skirts in Earth Tones.

I use spinnerbaits a lot.... and with pretty good results. When I read your post it really got me interested in skirt colors. That Cole Slaw pattern is a good "change" to the Yellow/White I see on so many spinnerbaits. And I've read that bass really "attack" that orange color at different times. I have no doubts that pattern, soaked in your minnow scent, will get bit hard. Feeling inspired by your post I tried putting some skirting material together on a couple of old factory baits that were in need of re-skirting.

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Thanks for the inspiration...you are the man. Looking forward to seeing your next round of pic's.