My poison shaky heads

[Siebert Outdoors]

took 2nd place. I gave a few of these heads that I made to a good buddy since I havent been able to fish them yet. Low and behold he took 2nd place in a tournement last weekend. After he told me this I was proud of my work and new I was onto something good.  I was as happy as a kid in a candy store.

He said that the poison head pulled through the weeds real easily and didnt catch alot of them. Plus that widgap hook and the angle that the bait sets is just perfect.

Just an update too for Harshman if you havent fished yours yet. So down to the caster I go to make more of these things. I also found out an easier way to paint them. Dont dip the whole head just shake it up to the spring and stop. You guys might be doing this already but if not theirs a little tip for you. No more breaking paint from the springs.

[ominousone]

with what you said about "no more breaking paint off of the springs".... I was thinking about this and said to myself, the spring is going to be buried in the soft plastic, so what would it matter?  I would think that it might look like a spine inside a translucent bait, or it would be invisible inside a solid colored bait.  Anyway this is about the 5th time I have heard people talking about covering the spring, or chipping paint off of it, or whatever, so I thought I'd chime in with my 2cents.

[harshman]

GMAN,

you have sparked my excitement for fishing these heads even more. I 'm hoping to get on some water this weekend if the weather holds out, plus I need to try out my new bass hound.  I'm also working on a 3/16 and 1/4 oz ball head shakey head with a 3/0 hook.

If you can paint the spring and still keep it's coil shape and not get a big blob of paint there really isn't any benifit of chipping off the paint, but it doesn't always work that way. On the ones I have done it wasn't that hard to chip the paint, all I had to do was pinch the coil a few times with a small pair of needle nose pliers and the paint fell right off.

[Siebert Outdoors]

When I painted them it blobbed.  Is that even a word :-?

I tried a round ball with a 4/0 basically an eakins style like in my avatar but it didnt work as nice or the angle of the bait to hook didnt appease me.  I do have some 3/0 but havent tried those.

[Triton21]

Thanks for the tip guys.

Kelley