Back in The Lab 2021

[crappieseeker]

what type of soft plastic is that monkey milk/orange type color? What is the length and do you make it?

Just takes practice. Need to visualize where the hook is going to come out before you put on. Head I just painted last night along with the last plastic color combo I poured couple years ago. A hot combo if you ask me. That is actually Dead On White used. Is more of a translucent white kinda giving it a skim milk color if you may.


I was wanting a hook that had the eye closer to the jighead on smaller jigs. Bigger jigheads this isn't an issue due to jighead being bigger therefor closer to the eye of the hook. Smaller size jigheads the eye of the hook isn't close to the head. I kept getting batches of hooks with the eye not closed all the way. The Ultra Point 2x solved my issue by the shorter distance between the shank of the hook and the eye. Also wanted to see what all the new found hype about them was. The mold takes your standard Aberdeen style hook. I had to modify it to accept the Ultra Points. Here is how I modded the mold.

Get you one of these file kits at Harbor Freight. Comes with like 6 or so files. This is the one I used.



Here is the place I filed. I only filed one of the 1/16oz and one of the 1/8oz. I left the others for if I want to pour with regular hooks. Didn't take much filing. Simply open up the area I'm pointing to as that is where the eye of the new hook will rest. The 1/8oz I had to open up the hook shank area. Same file was used.