Jig Man
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I do it with a split cup. I glued a partition in the middle of one of my pyrex cups. I warm up the cup on a hot plate then pour different colors into the sections. I hold the cup as high above the mold as possible and still hit the hole. I pour the smallest stream that I can which allows the plastic to swirl. The hardest part is making the cup. I used some aluminum flashing and glued it in with JB Weld. I've not had many colors that looked very good unless one of them was white.
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I will break anything other than Flat Waxed or Power Pro braid.
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I let one of them get into some remelts. It smelled up the whole batch. I gave them away.
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I may have gotten mine at Lowe's. It has been a long time and I don't remember.
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We discussed this once before. Just be sure not to use the regular JB Weld. It will stay forever. Since that discussion I have used the epoxy putty to get rid of some collars. It seems to be working just fine. (Thanks to smalljaw.)
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I powder paint my jigging spoons. I don't use any top coat on them.
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We used carpet knife blades fastened together. We put them in a vise and placed the tube tail on top. Then we used a dowel rod and rolled it over the tube to cut the tail. It was a pain so I bought some injectors.
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The reason I asked is I dipped in the past and now inject. I never use hardner as I want my tubes to be as soft as possible hoping the bass will really hang on to them. I don't mind if they tear because I can always remelt them.
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That tube looks fine to me. Why do you use hardner in your tubes?
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You should spend some time reading the don'ts for newbies at the top.
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OK can you take the lid off and show us the insides of that gizmo?
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You may need to put a ferry thin coat of oil on the bolts to get the plastic to slip off easily.
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After you've done some research, If you don't have a plan then you might want to consider some starter kits from some of the places like Bear's, Jann's or Barlow's.
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I made some like that but finally opted for a mold. And yes I have caught a lot of fish on them especially in March.
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I've done it with my Power Zap but it isn't really a good hold. I prefer to glue mine.
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I have been using powder paint on some jigging spoons. I want to try something else. What is a good type of paint I can use that sticks well and where can I buy a few colors?
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You bet. I have a couple of bottles on my work bench. Lately I have been using Krazy glue for some of my coats since $ GEN now has it in bottles with brushes.
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Cadman and smalljaw just to name a couple sell jigs. One of them might sell you unpainted heads.
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I don't normally use a weedguard in a swim jig as long as I swim them they don't get hung up.
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I probably use the 1/2 oz more than any other size unless the fish are really shallow then the 1/4 oz. My favorite is the poison tail.
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I see no need for weedguard in swim jigs so I leave them out unless I am swimming them in and around brush. Then I like the 90# steel leader like I put on my tube jig heads.
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I toss mine in a pan of water to let them chill and set. Then I let them dry on a towel. After that in the 3600 or 3700 boxes.
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Yep that has been my thinking lately also. I just don't want making baits for him to get in the way of my March-October fishing. I don't go often in this kind of weather, but when those big whites get on the A-rig in upper Bull Shoals and the prespawn lmb move in at Stockton, I don't want to be making baits.
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A friend of mine has been displaying some of my baits at trade shows along with his other products. Now he plans to open a web store. He wants to put my baits on the site. My question is: Should I make only baits as they are ordered or should I make up a bunch for stock. I'm not sure what to do as there are many colors and sizes of 4 different styles of jigs, tubes, craws, plastic sticks, and some crappie baits. He's carrying about 1300 assorted baits with him at the trade shows and most are less than 12 or each color/variety size.
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