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Post a pic with something for scale. I could be interested. This is the skirt style I am specifically looking for:

Making some 1/4 oz and 3/8 oz buzzbaits this winter. Any recommendations on good priced silicone skirts that are somewhat sparse, won't tangle in the counter blades when slung a long way on a spinning rod, and are medium sized 2-3" river (smallmouth) skirts? Can't find the ones we used to get anymore. Barlows has some, but they are too dense for my liking. White, black, chart/white are the colors looked for. Thanks!

Hi, looking for heavier grade counter rotating blades that will fit 1/8 and 1/4 oz buzzbaits. Barlowe's sells thinner blades that don't make as much noise when they click as i'd like.

I do use a spinning rod and braid. I fish mostly medium sized or smaller rivers and creeks. Braid is superior for topwater where the no stretch and long casts mean more fish. Also, the line doesn't ever break. I keep drag loose and almost never lose a Smallmouth once they are hooked. No knot failures, no fish getting tangled in wood and lost. Just last Saturday I threw a tube into a log jam surrounded by 5' of moving water on 3 sides. An almost instant thump and almost instantly the good 18" Smallie was hung on some wood. I was able to keep the pressure on the fish in current, backreel to shore de-vest, throw my waders up chest high and wade across and up onto the log jam while keeping that bass in place. I landed the fish. No way I land that fish on 8lbs test mono or fluro. Let alone all the pigs I've yanked out of wood with Sammies in their mouths. Now the creek fish in crystal clear water that I have caught on paused hard jerk baits, tubes, and flukes didn't have the problem with seeing braid. Caught close to 2000 Smallies last year all on braid. If Smallmouth and Largemouth in moving water are line shy, I've made up for it by losing less fish and hooking more. If you are fishing on a clear lake- that's beyond my experience. Fish with that much time may be line shy. Spartacus- yeah, I have been tying the double. Don't think your line was breaking as much as the standard mono knots slip free when snapped. Check those hook eyes. any opening is heartbreak time!

Suspend dots it is! Thanks again fellas!

That's a really good idea, Reeves. Though as labour intensive as just redoing the things. If I remelt them with propane torch, what precautions should I take on not damaging the hook and forms? They have been powder painted. Then, with the blades already on, could they be damaged in the oven curing? BTW, you guys have been great with the advice, thanks a bunch. *tilts beer* Lesson learned: test lure fully before making 100!

Suspend dots. How much weight can they add? Seem to remember these being pricey. ISA there a cheaper way. Got about 100 baits that will need this done to.

Guys, I comparewd one of his to one of our 1/4 oz buzzers and the heads were the same size. He was telling us 1/4 was 1/8 and 3/8 was 1/4. Wished I had known that before we made up about 100! So that part is solved. How can I get the weight up? BTW the bait is 3.5" long and .75" high.

Ok, that's his, I believe the heads were purchased at Barlow's or somewhere. Eagle claw hook. Mine looks exactly the same from the Do-it Molds- except the head is slightly smaller and flater. An I threw on a 2/0 Owner Spinner bait hook. Sorry for the delay, got sidetracked. I do throw on a 6' 9" ML Spinning rod with 15/4 Power pro. I did wrap lead wire behind the head,didn't see enough improvement there. Crimped on a splitshot, of course that may fall off.

Bass may be bedding at those temps- leave them alone so they can have babies. You're future fishing efforts will thank you.

Getting two to bite is a challenge, the Sammy 100 or other WTD baits get a lot of competition strikes. SMB go nuts competing for that injured, fleeing food. Once you hook two it's not much of a fight as they struggle against each other. Happened to me 5 times last year. It helps that I change out my hooks often. Razors on there mean more landed bass.

Made up some 1/8 oz double counter rotating bladed buzzbaits this winter with 2/0 Owner spinnerbait hook (ouch). The mold design was the flat minnow head design 1/8 and 1/4. A local sells great 1/8 oz round minnow head Buzzbaits but they has somewhat dull eagle claw mustad spinnerbait hooks. So we ventured out and made our own because he was going to stop building them. We'd caught hundreds of Smallmouth on these baits, couldn't fathom not being able to throw them. Problem: Ours cast like crap. On comparison, his 1/8th head seems almost twice as big! How can I add weight to buzzbait to get it rattling again. I fish alot of shallow clear streams and need to be able to reach out and touch. Thanks!

You need to use a palomar knot. Many traditional knots slip with braid, OR your hook eye was partially open and the thinner diameter line slipped through, OR something on your rod or reel was cutting it like the line clip on a spinning reel catching on the cast. Been through all of these. There is a learning curve. But once you learn it, you'll love it. I don't fish with anything else. PP 15/4 for SMB and rivers. No leader needed. At least for river bass.Trust me.

Happens Quite a bit with Sammy 100's and Smallmouth. I try to let them play a smidge longer- you often get a big girl come along and take a swipe. What makes the Splash it better then most premium poppers? Imagine it has fine hooks. How is it different? Nice fishing.