Thread: we were messing around today

looks great to me Bob

thank you James.

Nice Snake!!!!

thats some mighty good colors Bob

thank you guys for the comments we didn't have anything specially in mind when we were making these up these are only scraps that I have left over and we were just messing around seen what we can do they did not come out exactly like I wanted them to I do not like the big eyeballs on little baits on 2 inch Stinger they would have been fine so this is why we use two different sizes to see what they would look like.

Snake,
You got it going on, don't kid yourself. Those baits look great! Eyes, I say forget them. Can't hardly sell jigheads if they don't have eyes, just makes it redundant for the plastic to have them to. I love to go to Wal-Mart and sporting good stores and watch and listen to fisherman, kinda keeps a finger on the heartbeat. Every now and then I'll ask them some questions just to really get a grip, I'm NEVER disappointed in the responses, they're great. I guess them eyes catch something, fisherman! Personally, my jigs don't need to see where they're going, GULP.

Originally Posted by crappiedoc

Snake,
You got it going on, don't kid yourself. Those baits look great! Eyes, I say forget them. Can't hardly sell jigheads if they don't have eyes, just makes it redundant for the plastic to have them to. I love to go to Wal-Mart and sporting good stores and watch and listen to fisherman, kinda keeps a finger on the heartbeat. Every now and then I'll ask them some questions just to really get a grip, I'm NEVER disappointed in the responses, they're great. I guess them eyes catch something, fisherman! Personally, my jigs don't need to see where they're going, GULP.

I agree with you 100% eyeballs are for fishermen I'm a firm believer in action is what catches the fish we are more or less just messing with the eyeballs you know something to do we do not put eyes on our plastic baits when we are selling they are too time-consuming and cost prohibitive for me to produce I'm betting that you probably used a lot of plastic baits without eyeballs and have done quite well catching fish I will only tell you this ever since I was 13 years old I've caught thousands of crappies I am not exaggerating one bit when I say thousands most of my jigs that I used in the past or plastic baits did not have eyes we will be 65. April so I have a lot a years behind me in the knowledge to go with it on making jigs and fishing for crappie crappie has always been my number one game fish two fish for and they are a lot of fun so most the time that you are putting eyeballs on jigs it's to catch fishermen but I will only say this about eyes on jigs it makes them look good not on plastic baits like I told you it is cost prohibitive for me to do so and also you have a long time involved doing it that's why it is costly to produce something like this but if the sportsman wants to pay then us guys that produce custom plastic baits will deftly put them on here you might say that we will produce anything that threatens works on or our customers would want I don't know how much experience that you had with fishing jigs it might be quite interesting to find out how many other guys out there over the years did not have eyes on jigs and how they did there has been much said about eyes on jigs in many post about it on here the is Pro and con about it I believe if the fish are on a feeding frenzy that they will go after anything that looks good to them I don't think they are paying attention to whether or not that plastic bait or jig has eyeballs you might say putting eyes on jigs is a talent and again I say it makes them look better only to the public I think .
bob.

We actually did a little experimenting with eyes for a bit. It was a eyes vs. plain, and the plain painted jigs won everytime over the eyes. We can only speculate over the reasons why, some eye patterns and styles were better than others, but they still lost. some things we found were 1)color,contrast 2) action 3) size. We follow this "formula" to help us get zeroed in that "up and down" jig or lure. But your right, gotta do what sells, I guess it leaves more fish for the rest of us.