Here we go…….

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It has decided to come my way after all. Was hoping it would swing wide left and just dust us off a little. Now it looks like high winds will be upon us. Thursday into Friday means it is a slow mover. We are gonna have power lines down for several days. Not much fun. We will be on the right hand side, which is where all the action is.

Today I will gas up five fuel cans to run the generator. I usually get around a can a day or so. Hate to do it, but will need to visit the grocer one more time. Soon the shelves will be barren.

The boss is gonna want me to work non stop to feed the power line workers. Early early mornings and late late nights. All day everyday. My wife will be off work Friday, Sat and Sun and probably Monday maybe Tuesday. She is gonna want that generator running the entire time. TV and fans and flush toilets and such. I need to tell her to do ALL OF THE LAUNDRY NOW.

Before I had a generator, I would fill my bathtub up and use a five gallon bucket to dip water to flush the toilet. I learned that you don’t put the water in the tank, rather just dump it straight into the bowl and like magic the stuff goes away. Now I hook my generator to the well pump.

Cords through the windows to run those multi plug thingies.TV, fans, lights. I never invested in the switches that let you plug straight into the fuse box. No suicide cords for me either. I have seen generators getting wired in to fuse panels before, but I like cords. My fingers prefer cords as well.



Well I been playing with my eyes again. I pop them out and roll them around the floor and stuff. Just kidding. Been playing with my lure eyes again.

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The effect is somewhat lost in the photo. They look great in hand.

All of these eyes are over sized for the 1/16th ounce jig head. The edges of the eye reach past the jig head up top, but fit flush everywhere else. It really is a non issue as far as I can see. So what, they stick up a little. Anyways I kind of like the look of the larger eyes. I had the larger eyes in stock and decided to see how things looked with a plastic bait attached.

The hot pink one has eyes that I made from some old holographic vinyl sheeting stuff I had laying around. I used a hole puncher to make a plug and peeled the backing away and adhered them. Then I squirted some UV resin on them and let it spread out to beyond the edges and onto the jig head, then froze it with the light to seal the eye. Encapsulated it. Not too shabby actually.

Here is a punched out holographic disk that I added to a willow leaf blade.

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The picture is better, but still nothing like having it in hand. It looks like a diamond encrusted blade. I am sure it will flash like nobody’s business.

Most hole punches are 1/4” in size, which is a tad more than 6 mm. I was going to make printed eyes and do this technique, and still might. The issue is printing onto what ? They sell photograph useful papers, but if water gets in there it would be a mess. I would need to completely seal the thing. I will revisit all of this one day and see if I can make the coolest eyes ever.

I don’t understand why people use jigs without paint or eyes. I mean they seem to like to brag about it. I don’t get it. Now if I were losing a bunch of jigs every time I went that would be different. Still they like to say that they don’t believe in paint or eyes. Maybe they are absolutely right and the fish never notice. Still if they fish a bare head, they are still using a color. Grey.

I have gone through a metamorphosis with regards to eyes and will probably change some more later as well. I tried making jigs with no eyes but they just look unfinished. Especially when the jig head is not that plain old round ball. Fat Guys sells a nice hatchet head mold but again there is a rounded side where sticking on eyes is not going to work. I see most just painting them and calling it done. I guess painted eyes give a finished look, but not the same as a resin eye. Most jigs that are hand tied seem to have this plain painted head.

Three of the jigs above have not been painted. I just glued the eyes on and done. There really is no effect to gain from painting when the eye takes up almost all of the surface.


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On the heads the eyes look fine. They seem to fit several varieties. The far right is a 1/16th ounce head and the eyes do NOT sit down inside the cavity. Instead I daubed the glue into the cavity, and applied the eye and moved it around some to get good coverage on the rim of the cavity. Should work fine. They are 1/8th ounce heads.

I also have been doing away with the lead bait holder hook thingie. I don’t think it is better than glue. Might be great for someone who uses the same heads and swaps out bodies while fishing, but I show up with finished lures anyways. So no need to shred the bait needlessly. I found that squeezing it down beats cutting it away.

Did I mention that soon I hope to get some larger sized rhinestones. Ooooohhhhhh…….

The great glue hunt just may be over with. Read and old post by Dr Nip where he spoke highly of Godzilla glue. Well I have had three bottles of the stuff and all of them sucked. Then I saw where he was using CLEAR. Ah Hah clear. So I found a bottle of that and have used it on the eyes as seen and it seems to work well. I turn the bottle up at an angle, ooze out a drop, and then touch the jig to apply. Works OK.

So soon enough I will be making some more lightbulb headed jig headed thingies. Over sized light bulb eyes in flashy neon UV glow colors. Cool.