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Hand crafted bait and lures by Tim McFadden of TC Tackle as featured in many sport fishing magazines like "In-Fisherman" December 2007 article by Matt Straw. 

Quality innovative fishing tackle that really works.

         
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Wooly Bugger

Posted by Matt on Sat, 04/03/2010 - 9:40pm

Slow down for early-season smallmouths. Where you might use a 3/32- to 1/8-ounce jig with plastics in summer, back off to a 1/16th.  Choose jigs with a long shank, to accommodate 4- to 5-inch grubs and worms. Some of the best light jigs for bass are provided by TC Tackle, Northland Tackle, Owner and Gamakatsu.  Lighter heads allow for a slower drop and a slower retrieve in shallow water, where most of the bass will be until they spawn.

Spawning begins as surface temperatures broach 58°F in many northern fisheries—60°F down South. Slow rolling action-tail plastics on a horizontal plane is a key tactic prior to the spawn. Keep it in the middle of the water column. If the water is 6 feet deep, slowly reel it along 3 to 4 feet down. Keep the rod tip low. Don’t jig, snap, or vibrate it. Just reel it slowly in. Bites are light, but 4- to 6-pound monofilament works best. Braid allows jigs to fall too fast this time of year.

Per Matt Straw, 
Panfish Strategies for the Here & Now,
In-Fisherman.com:

"A custom jig maker, Tim McFadden at TC Tackle, has the answer. With a little tinkering, McFadden can pour a 1/16-ounce jig onto a thin size #10 hook, and he makes a 1/4-ounce jig with a fine-wire size #6, matching anything from maggots to crappie minnows. I use TC Tackle jigs on 4-pound Maxima Ultra green."

Deep Panfish - Deep Vertical Jigging with TC Tackle Jigs. Matt Straw In-Fisherman recommends Tim McFadden's 1/8 and 1/4 once ball head jigs with the small hooks. While jig manufactures point to hook makers, explaining that no small hooks are made to accommodate molds for big jig heads. And, hook manufactures say there is no demand for tiny hooks with a big extended elbow that would fit a 1/4 once head. Tim McFadden brings the Ball Head Jig to you in the hooks size and ball weights you want.

Per Matt Straw In-Fisherman  in DEEP PANFISH, In-Fisherman, August / September 2009:
"Best to use a TC Tackle Panfish Specialty jig [Ball Head Jigs], Tim McFadden of TC Tackle in Dillon, Montana, can make 1/8 once jigs with size #10 hooks and 1/4 once jigs with size #8 hooks that match up better with small leeches, but also make it possible to fish with slender, delicate baits like maggots without having to add split shot to the line."

Slither Spoon
The Darting Scale Minnow

Hand tied lures and hand crafted hard bait from a small craftsman's shop. Tim produces the quality tackle avid fishermen have sought after for years.  As an artisan bait master Tim has developed tackle that brings the fish in.  The hooks on Tim's hand tied lures are made of Vanadium metal a unique hardened metal.  How many hooks or lures have you literally watched bend under the weight of a fish.  When the big one comes along you will not be just another fisherman telling a BIG fish story because you will have McFadden lures and the fish!

The Bass AND THE HAIR

Matt Straw "The TC Tackle TC Wooly Bugger .. produced
smallmouths over 5 pounds for people in my boat last year,
once the water dipped below 42°F."

"the hair jig is not dead, but alive and well in the hands of masters new and old in the art of tying natural and synthetic materials to jigs."
 

 

 

Oct-Nov 2006 In Fisherman magazine
The Perfect Steelhead Jig

Matt Straw "I'm now addicted and can't stop buying his (Tim McFadden's) jigs. They're also perfect for big crappies and blue gills in heavy cover, where you need heavier line and stronger hooks to haul them out." 

"I was extremely impressed with how well TC Tackle jigs hooked steelhead and kept them hooked right up to the bank, without losing shape.  In fact, West Coast steelheaders could consistently land fish with McFadden's bare-bones 1/32 ounce jigs when the water is clear."

While anxiety swells awaiting the arrival of your
McFadden lures and jigs,
you can be assured that you are launching
a fishing experience this season
that will be the best it could be.

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