small tubes

i just slid the little metal rods over the stems. you can cut the baits or even the rods to whatever length you like.

you can take a board and drive 5 #16 finishing nails in it with a little distance between each nail and dip all in at the same time, you do not have to polish the nails as they are slick enough already, or if you want them a little bigger you can get a 1-8 rod and cut to length and drill 5 small holes in wood and drive the rods in and then dip all at one time, you can also take sissors and cut tail on a angle and make a SLAB SLAY'r

Oh Ctom ,they were great looking baits,I am not a fish but might would eat one LOL

Sorry guys, I said 1-8 but should have said 3-16 or 1-4 for a bigger tube. Later when I can put picture on here ,hope to also show you a easy way to make the tubes solid heads but I don't know if I could explain it good enough without a picture,but it is done with a piece of telecable and is simple to do

for years I've used nails for making tube skirts I've enclosed a picture of a spike but you can use any size nail that you want to you can drill holes in a 2 x 4 so you do 10 or so at a time to get a head, color put the tops of them in a second color.Attachment 100463

The in-line two-color tubes are a snap. Its the two color horizontal numbers that get tricky.