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How to Tie Skirts for Bass Fishing Jigs and Spinnerbaits
Jason Sealock talks about how he ties skirts for bass fishing jigs or spinnerbaits. He’s made his own jigs and spinnerbaits and tackle for more than a decade just as a hobby and to experiment with colors, fishability, flaring, accents, trailers and more. Tying your own skirts is really inexpensive, you can make them in colors no other angler will be fishing and you can match real specific things you learn about forage on a certain body of water. You don’t much in the way of tools and the materials are pretty cheap as well. A lot of professional anglers just carry heads and skirt materials and put together the jigs when they get to a body of water and can see the conditions and forage base to match the type of jig they need to fish.
Currently working as Senior Advisor to Wired2fish. Former COO and Publisher, Jason Sealock came to Wired2fish shortly after inception in January of 2010. Prior to that he was the Editor-in-Chief of FLW Outdoors Magazines. He worked up from Associate Editor to Photo Editor and finally Editor in Chief of three magazines FLW Bass, FLW Walleye and FLW Saltwater. He set the content direction for Wired2fish while also working directly with programmers, consultants and industry partners.
Sealock has been an avid angler for the better part of 40 years and has been writing and shooting fishing and outdoors content for more than 25 years. He is an expert with fishing electronics and technologies and an accomplished angler, photographer, writer and editor. He has taught a lot of people to find fish with their electronics and has been instrumental in teaching these technologies to the masses. He's also the industry authority on new fishing tackle and has personally reviewed more than 10,000 products in his tenure.
He has a 30-year background in information technologies and was a certified engineer for a time in Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, and HP.
He mostly fishes for bass and panfish around the house. He has, however, caught fish in 42 of the 50 states in the US as well as Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada and hopes to soon add Finland, Japan, Africa and Australia to his list.
