Poison tail ptj-3-afs

[Mbirdsley]

The 1/8 thru 3/8 poison tail mold just arrived from lure parts online today. It will go with its bigger brother that makes the 1/2 oz through 1 oz poison tail jigs. The bigger molds serves as pretty good punching jig along with a swim bait mold .  
 

I bought the smaller one mainly to make 3/8 oz swim jigs.  I also want to possibly mess around with making a swim jig with a light wire hook for the 1/8 and 1/4 sizes 

 

I noticed that it looks like the 1/8 size can’t be made weed less.  At first I had thought that do-it had forgotten to machine the the pin slot.  However, after looking at the stock photos on the net those molds also lack a machine notch to put a pin. 1/8 I guess would be tiny to try and put a weed guard in. 
 

only about 3 more months until the ice is gone.  I have bass fishing in the brain bad 

 

 

[Bluebasser86]

I have some necked down weedguard pins I got from @cadman I believe? One set is small enough that it only takes 1-2 weedguard fibers to fill the hole. It works great for my 1/8oz snootie jig mold. The bigger ones take about 8 weedguard fibers to fill the hole and work really well for my 1/4oz snootie jig heads to make my own version of a Bitsy Bug jig. 

[Mbirdsley]

1 hour ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I have some necked down weedguard pins I got from @cadman I believe? One set is small enough that it only takes 1-2 weedguard fibers to fill the hole. It works great for my 1/8oz snootie jig mold. The bigger ones take about 8 weedguard fibers to fill the hole and work really well for my 1/4oz snootie jig heads to make my own version of a Bitsy Bug jig. 

Thanks maybe I’ll shoot cadman a email and see if he has any available

[smalljaw67]

The reducer pins won't work. The slot on the 1/8oz is made for an FG-12 weed guard which is 5/64" in diameter or .078".  Go here - PTFE Wire | Contenti  - and order the .078" and then cut it into 1.5" - 2" pins. This stuff is the same as Teflon, but Teflon is a brand name so they just call it what it is. You can either make pins or get the smaller weed guards and cast them in but I prefer to use the pins.

[Bdnoble84]

11 hours ago, smalljaw67 said:

The reducer pins won't work. The slot on the 1/8oz is made for an FG-12 weed guard which is 5/64" in diameter or .078".  Go here - PTFE Wire | Contenti  - and order the .078" and then cut it into 1.5" - 2" pins. This stuff is the same as Teflon, but Teflon is a brand name so they just call it what it is. You can either make pins or get the smaller weed guards and cast them in but I prefer to use the pins.

Great post smalljaw. Ive been wondering if there is a teflon or other plastic material out there that would work. Currently I just buy 5/64in drill bits for mine works alright but kind of a pain when powder painting because the paint obviously stick to the drill bit. It works and you can scrape the paint off but its not that efficient

[Munkin]

I bought some of the teflon in the correct size and cut them into 1" lengths. These are what I use for my hair jigs and some prototype finesse jigs.

 

Allen

[Jig Man]

When I had that mold I used a piece of romex that I had left over from some electrical wiring.  I’m not positive but I believe it was 10 gauge.