Quote Originally Posted by DrNip View Post
Looking great! Just heads up on that mold. It is the reason I switched over to 95% lead 5% antimony mix. The wire insert tends to wiggle out in 100% lead or at least did for me. With the antimony it no longer did as well as other molds I modded to have insert for blades.
I saw where you modded up the Walleye mold, and it looked great, but I would probably botch the procedure and ruin the mold.



There isn’t a lot of pressure on these wires, so it will be an easy enough fix. I am thinking longer wire, perhaps even hooked onto hook shank. Bending the wire on the 1/16th ounce leaves it so loose it falls out. Either way I am going to be unable to make lots of jigs anyways.

The amount of extension away from the plastic bait is a whole other issue. I don’t feel it is far enough away. Limits choices for blades to basically willow leaf style. I do have some very small Colorado blades that would get me by. It is just disappointing that Do-It proceeded with production knowing this issue was present. No fix since then ?

Iam excited to try to leave the blade off of one, attach a section of line to that wire, and dangle a second jig underneath. Might be nice spider rigging. That top jig would be drop shot style. Easier to manage. Maybe add a small swivel first and tie to that.

I like the overall shape of the jig head. Quite a bit of the weight is in the collar/ tail, which can be cut away. I trimmed one up and liked it. This should yield a very light jig when done to the 1/16 ounce heads. No real need for a 1/32 or 1/24 size cavity.

Lot to be learned about jigsin general. They seem so simple but there are complex forces involved. I will consider buying some antimony. I have some wheel weights I could melt down and use that “lead”. What I have is pure stuff.