Rough, but maybe

[rezz93]

After seeing Snake River's post of that beautiful jig, I decided to try my luck with UV glue bodies again.

Very rough looking right now. Need practice

This look is beautiful with the way the light shines through the clear body and tail. I believe it would be a good catcher.

Do you think it's worth pursuing?



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[SuperDave336]

I think it's worth pursuing. I like the jig Bob shared. Plus that has to be a very durable jig.

[snake River]

We used to make them, we use fast drying epoxy, and they worked very well. We used to catch a lot of brim. We used to tie a smaller like a 164 and we used to put a little bit of coloring in the epoxy, like what we used to color our plastic hot plastic and you could do various things with it. Also, the way you’re doing it is you could add some glitter and then just keep over coating it and you could even put paint and do the same thing you could do a variety of things with glue that you’re using, but they do catch fish like the one that you made in the picture. We use a lot of hair and Maribou.

[snake River]

We made up some jigs this morning, used jig inserts, and we use softex to put on the body and then we put the glitter and then the eyeballs and then we re-dipped a couple of times, but you could do the same thing using thread and wrapped a body down to a taper, and then quote it with the softex it dries super fast just something for you guys to think about and maybe mess with but you could make the clear bodies with a lot of different materials like above was mentioned. I have used UV glue in the past and it works pretty good. I haven’t tried it for a bigger size body, but I’m sure that it would work out just fine like rezz93 did above.

[rezz93]

Thanks guys!

Those are some great ideas. Snake River and some good looking jigs too!

I'm trying to use a material called Crystal string. It's a translucent stretchy cord used in jewelry making. It's some good looking stuff with the light shining through.

So far they're not looking good but I caught a small crappie and a bluegill on one the other day. This was on a day when I couldn't hardly get a bite on anything so not a very good test.

I'll keep at it for a while and try to get something more pleasing to the eye.

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[snake River]

Thanks guys!

Those are some great ideas. Snake River and some good looking jigs too!

I'm trying to use a material called Crystal string. It's a translucent stretchy cord used in jewelry making. It's some good looking stuff with the light shining through.

So far they're not looking good but I caught a small crappie and a bluegill on one the other day. This was on a day when I couldn't hardly get a bite on anything so not a very good test.

I'll keep at it for a while and try to get something more pleasing to the eye.

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Thank you for the kind words we were messing around today in the shop and you guys remember when you were kids used to make key ring out gut. I think they call it or whatever I put a picture and clothes, but we’ve been experimenting with the material. I put a couple of pictures of them in there. Also, the jigs were coded with the Softex tell you one thing after that dries you got one durable jig it just some more ideals I had and just enjoy missing around with different ideas.

[rezz93]

Yeah, those look more like what I'm thinking about. There's a glow to the body when the light shines through. Should be an eye catcher.

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[snake River]

Yeah, those look more like what I'm thinking about. There's a glow to the body when the light shines through. Should be an eye catcher.

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That little jig looks real good. I like it because it’s transparent you could do some other things using that trio by putting crystal flash or something on the body and then wrapping it for transparent, so it would shine on through. Also, if you’re using a coding put some glitter I bought a bunch of glitter from Walmart the other day and on the pink one in the picture, I believe I use it’s a pinkish glitter.

Bob.

[darcie1]

Some nice work.

[rezz93]

Here's another try using clear string and glue.

I ran the UV glue back behind the hook. This was done to hold the string together on the tail a little better. Not so sure but maybe.

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Including a second one using a different tail material.Attachment 505725