Nice, once you get it dialed in I bet you like them.
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Nice, once you get it dialed in I bet you like them.
Went down this road years ago. What I found out after spending some money that about 97 percent of tungsten beads…jig heads….are not much better than lead. Anyone that advertises 100 percent tungsten is telling a lie. About the best one can hope for is something at or around 95 percent. And the price will reflect that. Learned that no tungsten beads or jig heads are made in the USA nor will it ever be…too many pollutants involved. All of it comes out of China. But once I found some good tungsten jig heads the thump was really amplified.
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Gill curious if you have tried out those spoons?
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I have , a couple of them a couple of times . The yellow/black Daiwa one got a couple of hits and one hook up that came loose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alphahawk
I was waiting to report when I catch a nice one on them . :)
Also I’m picky about where I throw them . I don’t want to hang them up and loose them .
Also lake McIntosh has toothy critters in there that love shiny stuff .
I’m waiting to hear of that too.
I have some tiny spoons that I haven’t been able to cast, they’re that small. I’m going to get em back out and try em on the .15 braid and the 5’ rod. It’s the only rod I have that will cast really light stuff. Hope they keep you busy.
I’ve purchased UV epoxy and have been using it to glue the tungsten beads to streamer hooks .
I’m having an issue with the epoxy not holding the bead totally in place .
Sometimes when I’m unhooking a fish and put pressure on the bead , the bead slides back .
Hasn’t really become an issue , I just slide it back to the hook eye and the plastic body holds it forward . The epoxy does keep it centered and keeps it on the hook , but has anyone been able to find a specific UV epoxy that will lock the bead in place .
I like fishing with the streamer hooks , they hook well and the hook is long enough to reach the split on a trout magnet body , putting the hook Point at the rear and catches some of the short strikers .
I use solarez and some nail epoxy that i cannot read the brand of. The key is to fully cure it, it takes longer than the 15 seconds some claim... I personally cure mine for 2 hours or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by gillchaser999
And i also fill the bead completely with resin. You could try putting a small drop on the hook shank behind the bead too as an insurance
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I was only doing the 15 seconds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kevin22
My UV light looks like a flashlight . So I’ll give it 30 seconds and see how that works .
Sounds like you have a fingernail curer .
I need to buy a fingernail one, but for now i clamp my flashlight in my fly vise by the belt clip and place my heads under it for a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by gillchaser999
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I’m going back to Trout Magnet jigs .
One reason is by going to the 1/64 TM jig and TM body , I gained 10-15’ in casting distance.
The other reason, I expected to to a rise in hookups and in less fish getting off on the way in .
Didn’t happen. I was still getting hits without hookups and had fish just come unhooked .
One of the epoxies I was using , Bondic Pro UV Resin kit worked pretty good . It is thick enough not to be too messy and cured fairly hard .
But I was having beadheads slide on the hook shaft when unhooking a fish .
I ordered some Piccassio UV resin based on reviews and some craft syringes to use it with and was totally disappointed in it . Very runny and stinks . Plus there was a warning on a paper included that said not to get it on your skin and to use in a well ventilated area.
That thirty dollars would have bought almost 200 TM jig heads .
Jus thought I’d add this for those thinking of trying this .