I had several members on another site ask me back in 2012 to do a tutorial on how i make my Crawdads. I thought i would share on TFF.


Ok, some members asked to see a tutorial, this is how i make them:

Paint the jighead the color of your choice, start a thread base, and tie in some bucktail or hair of your choice.



Prepare the eyes: I used 30 lb red mono . put the mono near a heat source ( i used my alchohol lamp) keep rotating the mono getting it near the heat then backing out until you get the eyes to your liking:

Tie in your eyes so they are facing down towards the hook:

Tie in your Claw Material ( i used orange rabbit strips for this tutorial)


wrap back towards the head, and apply head cement or your choice to lock it in:

tie in rubber tenacles of your choice:

Tie in flash of your choice ( i used one doubled strand of shrimp):

Tie in your chenille, wrap the chenille, and whip finish:


Enjoy your new craw:

Nice job, you did that really well!

Thanks Skip!

Great job! I'll be trying my hand at one of those real soon!

Good job Heath

Thanks Guys, I hope it helps some .

Very cooool. Thanks for sharing.

your welcome, My pleasure.

Thank you for posting this. It definitely helped me.

Your Welcome, how's lake proctor treating you? I have not fished it in years, but use to do decent when i visited my inlaws in Dublin...

Fishing is good right now and from what I'm hearing it should just get better.

Ditto!

Thanks Kenny!

Hey Heath break out the Zatarans its time to eat.

Fantastic pics and jig! Hat's off!!