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You're too kind, Ted! Funny, I just received this from a friend in Michigan 30 minutes ago........I just got some skirts and tied one of those slips jigs you sent me a while back. I am so stoked! You poured those for me when I had to stop pouring plastics! I appreciate the time you spent teaching me and have been able to carry allot of that over into painting. There are a handful of the finest tacklemakers in the world here who have been and still are willing to take the time to explain in detail how things are done. I don't want to mention any names because i know I will forget one or two. But people in every form of tackle making have taken me under their wing to pass on their knowledge. I am forever grateful for that and to them and try to pass it on when asked. Thanks to all..............and use the damn search engine! LOL

There is a night and day different between the bullet, casting and the poison tail jig. For the first difference, the other jigs use a 28 to 30 degree hook while the snootie uses a 60 degree hook, while it doesn't seem like a big difference there really is depending on how you use it. On bottom contact presentations the line on the bullet and casting jig and even the poison tail gets contacted more, because the line tie is front and center while the snootie has the line tie on top. The fall is also different with the snootie than other jigs, I found that out by accident testing drop speed in clear water, we were dropping different jigs into the water to see how long it took for the jig to reach bottom using a few different jigs in various weights and we noticed the snootie doesn't fall with the hook up and the head facing down, instead the head is slightly forward, and with a skirt and trailer it is even more exaggerated which I think helps it to draw strikes but also provides me with an excellent hook up ratio. The big thing is every single one of the thousands of fish I caught on a snootie have been hooked in the roof of the mouth and this isn't a stand up jig and as I said, I think it is due to how the jig falls. The other thing is I like the eyes on this jig, they are much bigger than most others jigs that have eyes and I think eyes do trigger strikes at times and the snootie uses large eyes. So, if you weren't sure about getting it because it was the same don't, the casting jig mold, which I also have, is a great swim jig but that is it, there isn't much more I can do with it, the snootie I use as a swim jig, as a flipping jig, as a plain jighead for oversize grubs and for fishing plastics without a skirt and I even tied bucktail and rabbit hair on them, the most versatile jig Do-it makes in my opinion.