Rob Olling

series spinnerbait, was it a regular skirt with a band or a Term quickskirt. Also it may have been some sort of Stanley, never say any espically with silicrome, their spinners were called "Wedge" and featured tapered wire. A colorado/ willow blade combo is super common.

Can you pour lead into plaster molds?

I was looking to have a mold made for a small plastic crappie jig body( I posted a picture a while back in the soft plastics forum). I is my favorite crappie jig as well as hooking into some nice size Cats and Bass and was discontinued. So I was looking to make my own. I got a hold of 3 places, one quote was high, and the other 2 were about the same, well I decided on the one that I thought had the best reputation, but the guy seems a little to busy. Judging from the plastic body I am going to have to hand injection mold it. Its a little itty bitty guy, barely 3/4" long. I am in Sun Valley Ca, just north of Los ANgeles

At this point it is no big deal. I dont have a lead pot yet, Don't have a mold yet, guy I have been trying to get with to have a mold made has not answered me back. I would only be making small 1/ and 1/16 jigheads so alot of lead is not needed plus I will probably end up using 50/50 pure and wheel weights. The whole deal is waiting until I get the mold confirmed and orderedfor a crappie jig body then I will get on the ball on jigheads for it. And I leave for Arizonia tuesday for a few weeks, so it looks like it is not going to get done this month. A little dissapointing, but thats normal. It must just be me, I have had many poor experiences trying to do business will small shops lately.

It was not pure lead at all, I talked to the guy on the phone and he said he could not bend them. He sounded real shady, and was not telling me all the info so I just forgot abour him. Guess I am goung to have to hit a few scrap yards.

where can I get a gallon other than Del-mart? Does Bobs tackle shack sell plastic?

Anybody use'em or see'em? I saw them at Barlow's, one of the few premium looking hooks that go down to size #8

I am not shure, I think they are race car weights or just generic weights, but nicely packaged though. They are at a scrap place and they guy wants $10 for what looks like about 600# of them from what I can see in his pics, I was hoping they were pure lead. I will find out tomarrow if the scrap guy has any info. I was hoping that I would score and never need to start looking for lead, but its probably to good to be true.

I have not been able to talk to the guy who has the lead yet, but am going to get ahold of him tomarrow. I was thinking that because the blocks look thin they would be hard because soft pure lead would bend pretty easily. I am thinking about seeing if I can get on to cut open and take a look. Ya, I will be shure they are not cast iron.

I am very new to this, but always thought about making my own buzzbaits and withing the next 2 weeks or so will finally start making crappie jigs, plastic bodies, buzzbaits, and ice jigs. I would like to hear and meet others who do the same locally. I'm in Sun Valley just north of LA.

I have a chance to get probable 600# of lead weights almost free, but am not shure if they would be pure. How do you tell??? The blocks are 25# weights coated in plastic, are these normally pure??? I have not gone to see them yet but they look like they are about 1" thick and about 8" x 16". It is more lead than I will ever use so I will probable end up giving half of it away, I figure the easyies way will be to just chop it with an axe as I need lead/

I am mainly planning on pouring 1/32 oz jig heads, is it worth or needed to get the 4-20 pot that you can adjust the flow on??? Thanks, Rob

I am not exactly what you are looking for??? I float for what weight? I use very nice balsa floats made by Thill/Lindy little joe called the mini stealth, it is kind of egg shaped with a small plastic leg glued to the bottem. They are pretty expensive, but you can buy in a bulk 25 pack for $1 each or so, for bluegill and crappie they are unbeatable in my book.

Whats a wiper? Sounds like my nephew doing #2 in the woods for the first time.

You would have to reel a 3/4 buzzbait so fast even with the largest blade that you would be missing fish. The reaction strikes will be viscious, but you will probably only catch one out of ten. When I switched from 1/2 to 3/8 my catch increased 10 fold. My luck with buzzers has always been with the slowest speed that will give you a nive plop plop plop sound. I have thought about trying 1/2 with a big plastic 3 blade prop.

Just red the post, for a long time crappie fishermen have been untempering their jig hooks with(ug! ug!) FIRE!!! They normally take a matches or a lighter and over heat the bend in the hook so it will open up real easy, I have only heard of this being done on the gold hooks though, whick normally bend real easy reguardless. I would rather lose a few lures than have the fish of the year open up the hook on me with little force.

they are soldered to the hook???

I use custom jigs and spins 2-spot teardrops during the summer for bluegill and would like to make my own. This is a small like 1/200 oz tear on a #12 hook. Should I have a mold made, solder on tear bodies or what?

Are they worth the extra $8 or so? Do they produce any better quality jig head? The only differance listed is the sprue hole, and says must use bottem pour pot?(would it really make a differance?)

Ya I got the idea of removing the marble but wanted something smaller. I am going to try a few small castings that are onlt about 2.5" X 1.5" and marbles will take up way to much room.

I was thinking about Making tapered plaster pins for use on plaster molds. Can I cast plaster pins in an unsealed plaster mold without mold release? If I have to coat the mold with mold release, what can I use to release that will clean off the part so it gets the best bond when plaster is poured over it as a part of the mold? I plan on placing 4 plaster pins into a square pan and then pouring in the plaster for the bottem half of the mold. I have heard the marble idea but they take up a little to much room in a few of the small forms I want to try to make molds in. Also I dont want loose parts(marbles) to loose. Item 2, does any body pour the bottem half of their mold then seal it and then place the master back in and pour the top to get small details embedded deeper and not filled so badly by the sealer. Then seal the top half last. Just thinking out loud

I am just wondering what your favorite bizzbaits are based on??? I used to fish buzzbaits ALOT, and the Stanley was the bait that caught. I bought 2 of the terminator buzzers and they sucked so bad that I will not use them, I even bought a $6 buzzer with kind of wide wings on the head but it did not have the feel and PLOP (YES POLP!) that the stanley had. They are not avail here where I live and have though about making a mold after finding this site. The difference I am guessing was wire size and jig head design, but after using the terminators, I will never buy a offset blede ever. The stanleys were 3/8 oz, before I found them I used odds and ends of 1/2 buzzers but had to reel them to fast and resulted in quite a few fun misses. Just thinking out loud.

But some of the black blades that stamina has(black nickle) are dipped in some sort of acid to deep etch the black deep into the metal.

I had this paint recomended to my by a tackle maker and then saw it in lure-craft catalog, but cant seem to find the manufactures site or the product locally. Any ideas? Anybody else use Poly-sil?

I have never done it but from what I have read. You want the mold to be as warm as you can get it to start, smoke it, pour 1 or 2 false pours with no hooks to get the mold heated up and the slightly tip the mold on to its side and try to pour in half of the sprue hols so air can escope through the other half. I'm envoius, I dont have the tools or molds yet. What heads are you pouring? Pouring is best done naked with lots of bandaids around ;^) .