Lurch Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 Pros and cons of each? Are screw eyes strong enough to hold fish like pike and striper? What size wire do you use for lures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobP Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 Lurch, Do a search on this. There have been several recent threads on the topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROD W Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 I've been making top waters with screw eyes for about a year. Screw eyes work well with Pike and Bass. No problems. Never had a striper caught with one of them. Now these are in basswood not balsa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW Lures Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 I fish for stripers, matter of fact getting ready to go for three weeks. Read BobP suggested reading on it and screw eyes will be fine. I've tried cutting in thru wire and it is a pain. I've never drilled in a thru wire yet. I catch land lock stripers up to 50"+ in fast waters and the eyes work for me. Home made eyes work just as good if made and installed properly. JMO, Dale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dauds Posted April 3, 2017 Report Share Posted April 3, 2017 The never-ending debate, huh? Again, as BobP said, you can find plenty of posts on the topic. That said, I think many worry a screw eye will pull out. I recently did a little experiment to try and convince a buddy screw eyes provide plenty of strength. Here are two 26lb lead bricks hanging from a 1.5 inch .072" screw eye in a poplar bait with no problem. I actually got 4 bricks, 104lbs, hanging with no issue, but I don't have a pic to back it up. (There was only so much my wife would stand after she noticed me using her bathroom scale for my "experiment.") 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodieb8 Posted April 4, 2017 Report Share Posted April 4, 2017 what material is the screw eye going into? for larger toothy fish ,wire thru,but again whats the lure material. there lots of variables. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW Lures Posted April 6, 2017 Report Share Posted April 6, 2017 (edited) @ Dauds, lol you could have saved yourself a lot of grief if you have read some of my old post on hand made eyes. I put something like 55 lbs over a week on them. After that I dropped the weight to create 750 lbs +/- sudden impact stress on the eyes. Thats why I made the comment that I did. I was new and had to prove it to myself. Twisting out (screw eyes) made me take a look at that, no problems with this. I read a post by BobP (I think) about over drilling the hole, then place a screw eye in the hole with epoxy. It works just fine. Now Woodie ^^^^^^ he fishes and makes baits for big toothy critters. He can help with them. Dale Edited April 6, 2017 by DaleSW Added to comment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
