Jig Man Posted June 26, 2010 Report Share Posted June 26, 2010 Yesterday I fished with a crappie guru. I took several hundred baits and a bunch of heads. I caught 3 fish on my stuff while he caught lots. I finally begged some heads and baits. We wound up with over 150 crappie. I have modified my mold to take the small hook #4 and weedguard (one fiber from an FG30. There is no way I can heat it up and powder paint it (he does). I have spent all morining using finger nail polish on the heads (3 coats). Any of you old boys got a solution. Don't even think about pouring and drilling that small of a hole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlaery Posted June 26, 2010 Report Share Posted June 26, 2010 (edited) Yesterday I fished with a crappie guru. I took several hundred baits and a bunch of heads. I caught 3 fish on my stuff while he caught lots. I finally begged some heads and baits. We wound up with over 150 crappie. I have modified my mold to take the small hook #4 and weedguard (one fiber from an FG30. There is no way I can heat it up and powder paint it (he does). I have spent all morining using finger nail polish on the heads (3 coats). Any of you old boys got a solution. Don't even think about pouring and drilling that small of a hole. Woops, I didn't read close enough the first time. I make those kind but don't paint them. Edited June 26, 2010 by dlaery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred27 Posted June 27, 2010 Report Share Posted June 27, 2010 cut a piece of wire from a small paper clip and use it as a base pin. powder paint your jig with wire still in. remove wire and glue your fiber in hole. i do this all the time and it works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jig Man Posted June 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2010 fred I do this all the time with my bigger jigs (base pins). I can't understand why it didn't occur to me in the first place. Thanks man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish On! Posted June 27, 2010 Report Share Posted June 27, 2010 Jig Man, I want to make the smaller jigs for soft plastic baits that have a small weed guard. What molds are you using? How do you modify them? Can you post pics for details? Thanks for helping a fellow fisherman. Fish On! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jig Man Posted June 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2010 Jig Man, I want to make the smaller jigs for soft plastic baits that have a small weed guard. What molds are you using? How do you modify them? Can you post pics for details? Thanks for helping a fellow fisherman. Fish On! The wire that allows one filament of FG30 is .035 my spinnerbait wire is .040. I cut a small piece of spinnerbait wire and used scotch tape to hold it where I wanted the weedguard. I clamped the mold down solid in a vice so that the wire would indent the mold. I did this for all 4 cavities. Now I can put 1/2" pieces of .035 wire in the slots and pour away. Thanks to fred. I don't know if pics will show up but I'll try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
