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I am curious about posting skirt colors on here, like they have for the soft plastics with the cookbook. Maybe a picture of your jig and how many of what strands and color. Has this already been done? I'm new to making jigs and just curious.

Hello and welcome to TU Cary. In my opinion the best way to get templates is to use photo editing software and make them yourself. With a photo editing program all you need is a picture of a bait you like and your in business. You can crop the background of the picture leaving only the lure. You can them make it into any size you want using the software. The ratio dimensions will the same whether you make it larger or smaller. Once you get it to the size you want just print it out and you have the beginnings of your template. All you need to do then is to glue the image to some stiff backer board (thin cardboard like that found in shoe boxes works great for this) and cut it out. You might have to print the image out a few times while changing the aspect ratio (size) of the image. Just change the size and measure the printout until you get the size you want. If you continue to build lures for any amount of time you will probably start drawing your own lures. If you end up doing this you will want to scan them and keep them in a folder in your computer in case you damage the original. Keeping a copy of all your templates on your computer is just added insurance in case you lose, or damage, one of your templates. If you don't have photo editing software loaded on your computer there are several freeware versions on the internet that will do the job. Just do a search for free photo editing software. Or you can use the search feature here at TU as there have been several discussions on this topic. hope this helps, Ben

Am I the only one that thinks a step by step with pictures on each step would be very helpful for the rookies??

Real shad colors base coat white pearl white belly and sides the a light coat of metalic blue sapphire(folk art paint) thinned 50/50 future floor wax add tw drops of gliserin down back and shoulders of bait createx fluorescent raspberry over the top of the blue fading so as to leaving a touch of blue showing on the lower edge steel gray folk art paint thinned as above sprayed thru fine netting over the back and sides fading into the raspberry leaving a slight line of raspberry showing below the gray(when done right the colors will fade from blue to gray as you look at the bait giving it a shiner/shad fadeing) put some gold paint lightly on gill plate and strip along lat line of bait just so it shows up (not to thick a little gos a long way in the finished bait) spray black very very light around eyes so when you add the eyes thay pop... add the spot of black behind the gill plate and above the lat line of the bait finish with a light coat of pearl white over the whole bait to give it some shimmer

Roll the fillets in cornmeal and deep fry for 8 minutes. Sorry, it was there for the taking.