How Many Actually Test in Water

How many of you guys actually put a line on your jig and look and see what it does in the water before you make a bunch of them?I wanted to see if the bugs that I made floated with the soft foam bodies that I put into them.They did'nt,lol.But,they look better in the water with a line on them.I think that I will start doing this to all the jigs.Here's the bugs in the water.First is what I thought would be a Skipper Bug,it don't skip,but the legs make it look real in the water.The second is a red legged something or other,lol.It don't do to much.It's over 112 here until September,night fishing only.So the water bowl will be getting a lot of action,Ha.

This 1/64 with just a single strand of Clown Chenille with red legs looked the best in the water.

I test everything I make or design from plastics to chenilles If it dosn't work I don't use it or sell it! period I don't just mean catch test either it has to be durable nothing worse than a plastic bait thats good for 2 fish!or a loose chenille that sheds like a Lab in the summer!

Good looking bugs!

I am making four of each jig I tie so I can see how the fish like them before I make a lot of something that doesn't work. Most of the Tye's that I am making are the same colors that my plastic body's are.

Nice bugs you made.

I test everything I make for action and durability to make sure it is doing what I intend for it to do. I use a 55 gallon aquarium as wellas a 5 gallon bucket. In addition I only make what I personally use.

If I am trying something new in materials and I want to know how it acts in water then I do. Most of the things I make are things I fish with and have been making even if a new color. So it needs to be something new like a couple years ago I bought some stuff they were going to stop making and I had no idea how it would look in the water I put it in some to see. So happens it looked much better in the water than I thought it would just looking at it tied.
It was Disco Yarn and have had some people ask where they can get some, LOL. Of course I do think they stopped making it and so it is not available. I plan on trying it more this fall and maybe this summer if I ever get out. Looks much better in the water and good colors too.

Skip

Whenever I tie something new I check it. Sometimes a jig that looks great dry doesn't do what you want in the water and vice versa. Gotta try them all.

I have a 30,000 gallon test tank that I use. I use it to check the fall rate and its 40 foot long so i can see how baits swim also. Every now and then I let folks swim in my test tank!;)

Get out of here,lol.

Ohhh, a swimming pool,Ha

Back when I was addicted to the Green Carp. We would spend hours at the swimming pool tuneing, and checking crank baits.

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Originally Posted by azslabber

Ohhh, a swimming pool,Ha

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:D

Getting a lil off the subject with this but... When i was younger and still lived at home I went out and caught several 3 - 5 lb bass. Well I wanted to bring them home and show them off. Being a teenager I had other things to do than clean fish so I got the great idea to put them on a stringer and put them in the pool. (It was early fall so there were no chemicals in the water). Checked on them an hour later and they were doing fine so Im thinking -jackpot! I'll clean them tomorrow and the rents wont even know. Go out there the next day and 3 of them somehow got off the stringer! I let them sit for a day and went back out there the next morning. Caught all 3 on the same exact bait i caught them on 2 days before.
AZ sorry about going OT on your thread!

Oh that's alright.I like reading stories.You should hear mine now that you brought it up,lol.

i thought that was what the wife's 29gallon fish tank was for :D ya i test what they look like in the water the wife dont like me doing it but i tell her if i catch one that just means she gets a new fish and i know my lure works so its a win/win situation :)

I use the bath tub for testing new baits like some of the spinners I've been making.If the blade starts to spin after moving it a foot and stays spinning after a couple turns than it is doing it's job.

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I have a 30,000 gallon test tank that I use. I use it to check the fall rate and its 40 foot long so i can see how baits swim also. Every now and then I let folks swim in my test tank!;)

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Braggert!! :):)

He is,is'nt he?He probably charges the neighborhood kids to swim so that he can buy more jig molds,lol.

I take my trout and panfish ties from the winter and test them all in water when season starts. Easy to do in shallow clear water and I see how they work in many different situations as well as techniques.

I do the same with my steelhead and salmon jigs and flies in the early fall before the water clouds up. It is the only way to see how big of a profile they will have to know which ones are going to be needed in what water conditions.

I try out everything that I tye. Tye three and fish with two. If i lose the two than I have the third one as a pattern. If they don't catch fish I give them to the neighbor...lol

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Braggert!! :):)

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:D:D:D:D May as well stock that puppy with some 'Gills and crappie to see what really happens.

No testin...just fishin. I like to eat crappie too much to waste time fishin in the cement pond.;)