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[islandbass]

Just made these (except the bottom most one) for my wife’s uncle who lives in CA.

 

I take inline spinners with me as part of my “emergency” ? stash when all else failed and the two minute warning has passed, lol.
 

The bottom 4 are part of my experimental spinners. I am using corkies in place of traditional plastic beads or other small lure body shapes. One has already produced for me so I’ll take that as a promising sign. 

The two hammered blades are intended for trout and pan fish. The black blade I dubbed black beauty. It and the larger one should catch bass and larger trout. Crossing fingers they produce for him! The bottom one I made for salmon. 
 

I incorporate a swivel at the top to minimize line twist and a split ring at the bottom to not only attach the hook but also to hopefully give the fish less of a chance of throwing off the spinner. Lastly, I prefer single hook over trebles mainly because I think the hook set is cleaner and more solid and more importantly, state law mandates single hook only in many rivers and all salt water. The larger lure with the treble was done this way because I didn’t have the appropriate sized Gamakatsu Siwash hook, lol. 

[BASS302]

1 hour ago, islandbass said:

The larger lure with the treble was done this way because I didn’t have the appropriate sized Gamakatsu Siwash hook

How do you determine the appropriate size single hook to use?  Is it dependent on the blade size, body size, body weight, or something else?  Do you only use french style blades?  Sorry for all the questions (I'm just curious).

[islandbass]

No problem! The was a book that I got it from the library that gave guidelines, but to be honest the old fashion eyeball ? usually will get it right. As a guess, maybe roughly up to half the body or blade or slightly less. I think some of the lure part stores have diagrams you can reference. 
 

I don’t exclusively use French blades but I do like them and they’re pretty much the bar for salmon spinners. I have used colorados, willows and some other shapes.  

 

[Munkin]

Taking a break from spinnerbaits to start cranking out some tubeheads. Everyone and their brother uses them around here so I need to make a ton of them.  For some reason they have been hard to find? I  have the supply problem of that solved.

 

Allen 

[Bdnoble84]

Switching to hair mode! Marabou jig was made from feathers from a tom I harvested a couple years ago.

[Chris Catignani]

All those will fish on the lake here.

[Chris Catignani]

@squarehead.paint OK...I just started carving some baits and have a few ready paint...man you totally give me something to shoot for...setting the bar high. Those baits look  great.

[Bluebasser86]

Saw a bait like this on TW and liked it so I wanted to see if I could replicate it. 1/2oz compact spinnerbait, wire trailer keeper, #3 and #5 Colorado blades. Tracks really well and gives a good amount of vibration in a small bait but stays down well.

[Chris Catignani]

This was an old "B" that had pretty much been destroyed....and just couldn't part with it.

I flattened it out on the sides.

New Lexan lip...added a little belly weight.

New paint and hardware.

 

[Jigfishn10]

Looks gorgeous! Great job.

Do you have a pic of the original before you refurb'd it?

[Chris Catignani]

No...I wish I did. The paint and finish was totally trashed and it had a little chunk out of the tail.  I've got some baits I've made and this referb was somewhat of a first run on painting.

I can improve the process...the paint just wasnt acting like I wanted.

[Tennessee Boy]

Very nice.  I hope you realize that if you start catching a lot of fish on it you're gonna be looking for old Bagley Balsa Bs so you can make more.

[Bluebasser86]

Had a pretty unique color request, but I think it turned out nice.

[J Francho]

Looks like a salmon teaser. That came out great. 

[BASS302]

19 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Had a pretty unique color request,

Looks like Candy Corn.  Yum.

[Chris Catignani]

So...I started out trying to make a motor oil...with purple and chartreuse...didnt quit get what I wanted...then I decided to make a two color with the failed motor oil and remelt some blue things someone gave me...it looked kind okish....then just decided to just mix the two. And this is actually pretty cool...I dont think the picture does it much justice. When I hold it up to the light and it goes white!

[Bdnoble84]

Im diggin it.

[Chris Catignani]

Clyde the Glide

[MassBass]

Gold and copper stamped blade. Not too glamorous but they will catch

[fishwizzard]

I made up up my 2022-23 supply of 1/2oz jigs this past week:

4 of the top two colors and 8 of the bottom.  I don't think there will be much difference between the first two, but I had some odd tabs I wanted to use up.  The bottom is my all-purpose Maryland craw imitator, used with either a Rootbeer w/ Green Flake or Falcon Lake Craw trailer it comes really close to a lof of the craws we have here.  At some point I will tye up a more Green Pumpkin/Blue pattern to use with a sapphire blue trailer, which will cover the rest of the local craws.

 

Once I got all the skirting stuff out I started to go through all my odds-n-ends jigheads and tying skirts onto them:

I want to get into tying with thread rather then wire so I am trying to train my hands to work with smaller heads while I get a tying supply order together.  

[Munkin]

You may want to look into some fine cut silicone material for the second set of jigs. 

 

Allen 

[fishwizzard]

33 minutes ago, Munkin said:

You may want to look into some fine cut silicone material for the second set of jigs. 

 

Allen 

Yea, I was thinking that and some living rubber for the “tails”.  Right now I am just using up open parks of skirting that I will not be reordering.  
 

My immediate goal is to figure out how replicate these little jigs:

 

 

I bought them years ago but cant remember from where.  They are great for the tiny flows around here and I am running out! 

 

[Munkin]

1 hour ago, fishwizzard said:

Yea, I was thinking that and some living rubber for the “tails”.  Right now I am just using up open parks of skirting that I will not be reordering.  
 

My immediate goal is to figure out how replicate these little jigs:

 

 

I bought them years ago but cant remember from where.  They are great for the tiny flows around here and I am running out! 

 

Check with smalljaw67 I am sure he knows how to make them. 

 

Allen 

[fishwizzard]

I’ve been watching his videos the last day or two and I think I’ve more or less figured it out. I have some hackle that I bought years ago and I’ve been making some practice jigs using pipe cleaners instead of chenille. Once I make a few that are not outright embarrassing I’ll post pictures. 

[fishwizzard]

In the sober light of dawn I realized that my wife had a ton of yarn laying around and that would make a better chenille substitute then pipe cleaners do, so I give it a go:

 

 

Getting the hackle correct is going to take some time and my whip-finish is highly suspect, but I think I am getting the gist of it.  I am going to order some components later today and see what kind of trouble I can get into.