This is what you need to start...

Take a bare jig of your choosing, and pinch down the collar barb with a lineman's grips.

Next I have these rattles by Northland tackle that are intended to be put on jigs before the plastic.

Well I cut it and tied it in first at the bend of the hook. I should note that the rubber gets cut into and a smallmouth will knock the rattle off. I will be taking these rattles with out the rubber and first gluing small lengths of 40# mono to them, then encapsulating the mono and rattle in 20minute epoxy. I will do the next step as seen.

Camoflage the rattle with the brown deer hair from the top of the tail.

Layer a variety of colored hackles in flat, but around the top half of the hair. History has shown that smallmouth really dig on the mixture of ginger, olive grizzly, and orange grizzly. Essentially match the colors of the crayfish in your waters.

Tie in a patterned game bird saddle with the bend of the feather facing in towards the jig. Do not let the feathers flare out from the jig or it will spin like a baddminton birdie.

Do it to both sides, or you can do only one. I am amazed at how many one clawed crayfish are flying around the shallows. For this I did one on each side.

The bottom of the head carapace on just about all crayfish is tan, creme, or beige, and it varies, but I used white for ultimate contrast and it's a solid ventral color as a rule of thumb.

Palmer in a saddle hackle, tied in at the butt of the feather. Then criss cross through it with the thread for longevities sake. Which reminds me, I'm tie almost everything with 14/0 thread, a diameter for size #20 hooks. You can use more wraps and not build bulk, and it also keeps the feathers laying flat, how you want them.

Do the same again with another feather trying your best to keep the furry barbules on. The first hackle palmered should be wirey as that simualtes the legs, and the second hackle to palmer should have much more webbing and be wispy, as that simulates the flowing flippers on the crayfish's abdomen.

Next, get a nice mix of flashy dubbing...

and dub that forward to the collar. This will help the hackle palmering forward to seat up and bite in.

again palmer the hackle forward and criss cross the thread back and forward to lock the stem of the feather in tight.

Give it a hair cut...

Tie in some more deer hair from the same area of the tail. Note that the hair mostly doesn't extend past the bend of the hook. This will keep fouling and wrapping to a low roar. I hate when the hair fouls!!!

Tie in your funky hackle blend like you did with the head carapace towards the beginning

Dub some more of the material you used prior to palmering the flippers, to cover the wraps, whip, and you're ready to catch fish. Here's the completed ventral view.

Here's the lateral/dorsal view.

This thing looks just like a crayfish cruising across the bottom, and when it hits a rock the rattle goes of and clicks just like the natural.

Tightlines and safe paddlin!!!

This is what you need to start...

Take a bare jig of your choosing, and pinch down the collar barb with a lineman's grips.

Next I have these rattles by Northland tackle that are intended to be put on jigs before the plastic.

Well I cut it and tied it in first at the bend of the hook. I should note that the rubber gets cut into and a smallmouth will knock the rattle off. I will be taking these rattles with out the rubber and first gluing small lengths of 40# mono to them, then encapsulating the mono and rattle in 20minute epoxy. I will do the next step as seen.

Camoflage the rattle with the brown deer hair from the top of the tail.

Layer a variety of colored hackles in flat, but around the top half of the hair. History has shown that smallmouth really dig on the mixture of ginger, olive grizzly, and orange grizzly. Essentially match the colors of the crayfish in your waters.

Tie in a patterned game bird saddle with the bend of the feather facing in towards the jig. Do not let the feathers flare out from the jig or it will spin like a baddminton birdie.

Do it to both sides, or you can do only one. I am amazed at how many one clawed crayfish are flying around the shallows. For this I did one on each side.

The bottom of the head carapace on just about all crayfish is tan, creme, or beige, and it varies, but I used white for ultimate contrast and it's a solid ventral color as a rule of thumb.

Palmer in a saddle hackle, tied in at the butt of the feather. Then criss cross through it with the thread for longevities sake. Which reminds me, I'm tie almost everything with 14/0 thread, a diameter for size #20 hooks. You can use more wraps and not build bulk, and it also keeps the feathers laying flat, how you want them.

Do the same again with another feather trying your best to keep the furry barbules on. The first hackle palmered should be wirey as that simualtes the legs, and the second hackle to palmer should have much more webbing and be wispy, as that simulates the flowing flippers on the crayfish's abdomen.

Next, get a nice mix of flashy dubbing...

and dub that forward to the collar. This will help the hackle palmering forward to seat up and bite in.

again palmer the hackle forward and criss cross the thread back and forward to lock the stem of the feather in tight.

Give it a hair cut...

Tie in some more deer hair from the same area of the tail. Note that the hair mostly doesn't extend past the bend of the hook. This will keep fouling and wrapping to a low roar. I hate when the hair fouls!!!

Tie in your funky hackle blend like you did with the head carapace towards the beginning

Dub some more of the material you used prior to palmering the flippers, to cover the wraps, whip, and you're ready to catch fish. Here's the completed ventral view.

Here's the lateral/dorsal view.

This thing looks just like a crayfish cruising across the bottom, and when it hits a rock the rattle goes of and clicks just like the natural.

Tightlines and safe paddlin!!!