Thread: Want something to do?

The filaments would be heavier in that design too Bob. Lots of the action in those evolve because they are flat, narrow and thin.

I use this tube mold for Lake Trout baits. Period. I don't fish bass with tubes. I haven't put a tube in the water for crappies or sunfish in years and years as there are better baits and I happen to make them.

I have the wires cut to dip tubes, but the hand-cutting just doesn't "cut it" for me. Once in a great while I have done a tube for walleyes but now when I want a bait that is tube-like in a walleye bait I make then by using sprues and cutting the filaments with a razor blade into about half of a three inch piece leaving the other end solid for hooking on a jig.

I'm real specific about my lake trout tube colors and that's why I make them. If I need something for walleye I am more inclined to buy a package t the bait shop. Since I don't use them for pannies I don't have to worry about it.

Nice are work. I can certainly appreciate the time it took. I have the 4" mold and doing the baits one at a time, clearing them off the spline re-clamping and starting over is a timely process. Like you said it is quite an investment to produce one bait at a time, but they do shoot clean. Saving my $$ for another tube mold set-up.