Jig Man
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It sure looks like 60° to me also Mark.
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I don't know either. But what ever it does, I wouldn't need more than a couple of them.
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What are you tying them onto. If it is jigs, you will get more response in the wire bait section.
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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.
