Jig Man
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"It looks like dinner." Grey is one of the best colors I have ever used. I use it by itself, with red, blue, white, and black.
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I use Bondo fiberglass resin when I make a mold.
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Some of my PT cavities leak also. I do like smalljaw does.
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I just use my nor por cups and pour the body one color and the claws another.
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The ones in the boat are mostly kept in boxes because I label and stack them. In the garage they are in a cabinet in zip lock bags, boxes, Walmart sacks., etc.
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You can also use purple or black instead of a navy blue. Both work well in low light conditions. The absolute best color combo for me has been red/gray. You wouldn't believe how many fish we caught on it the first year after I started making them.
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Humm the Arkie must be too shallow to hold the wire.
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MONEY YOU WON'T SAVE. FUN YOU WILL HAVE. That being said, I wouldn't buy a kit. I'd look at some of the offerings from sites like Lure Craft, Janns Netcraft, Barlow's, Bears, Caney Creek, Jacobs, etc. Find a mold that you want and buy it. Get some glitter and colorant and make some baits. As for books, this site has more than any book can offer. Look in the don'ts for newbies and soft plastic cook book. There is a year's worth of reading there.
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Another color you may want to make is a dark blue/orange. It was cold, cloudy, and windy on Bull Shoals lake yesterday. I threw several baits and could only get bites on that. I caught largemouth and a couple of walleye on it. It has always been a good low light bait.
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Do they come out if you don't bend them? I use that on my tube jig heads and my 1/8 Poison Tail. I don't bend the wire and haven't had problems with them coming out.
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Lee pot.
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What Does Non-Bleed Mean For The Color Of The Dyes?
Jig Man replied to steelmania's topic in Soft Plastics
Bleed means I make a blue/yellow bait and in a week or so I have a green one. Nonbleed means I make a blue/yellow bait and in a long time I have a blue/yellow bait. -
Good luck on the blend of powder. I haven't had much luck with that.
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Contact smalljaw. He may do it.
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I got mine from Cadman.
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Kind of looks like my banana head.
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I'm likin' what I'm seein'. Keep up the good work but stop before you get a thousand laying around.
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Try slowing down your injecting. Stir with an ice cream stick instead of a spoon.
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That is similar to the way I do it only I heat the head before taking it with the pliers. That way the pliers don't get warm enough for the paint to stick to them. After dipping I wipe down the hook eye and wire with a Q Tip to get any paint off before baking.
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Thanks for the compliments. I have been tying them for a lot of years. I have tied them by the thousands. I used to make 90 dozen a year for one guy down on Bull Shoals. On the tails, I either buy from Stamina INC if I need several or Bass Pro if only 1 or 2. The one you call ice blue is more of a baby blue. It has a combination of blue with white mixed in and some whitish crystal flash. The one type of fish around here that wants nothing to do with buck tail is the crappie. We have 3 kinds of them and none of them manage to get caught on these.
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Nope it is buck tail all the way. I don't even know what fish hair is. If you click on the pic you can get a closer look at the materal. The other stuff I use if craft hair and that is for Float n Fly. These are not walleye baits though we have taken a few on them. We catch all three species of black bass and some white bass on them in the fall and winter.
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Yes those are 1/8 and1/4 oz jigs with bucktail skirt material. Most have a bit of crystal flash mixed in.
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That is the same idea as the one we had.
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If you don't over coat them you won't have any paint in the eyes. I hold the eye with needle nosed pliers when I dip the jig. I don't heat them any hotter than it takes to get the paint to stick. So when I put them in the oven there aren't any paint runs to begin with and the eyes are already free of paint.
