What does everyone think??

Been pouring this winter and fall and have been experminting with a few varaitions.1/16 ounce pont heads with #2 eagle claw hooks with a #0 Indiana Blade and a #0 Willow leaf.Other one just tried today with a #2 Red Sickle Hook and a #0 Indiana Blade.What does everyone think??

Thanks
Fishattic256

Looks good to me. I like the Sickle best.

LOOK AWESOME 2 ME U SHOULD GIVE THEM A BATH IN CHAR PP and a black body with a char tail tht combo works all around the USA

I like the red sickle hooks the best and like the willow leaf blades the best.

That's what I am wanting to do this winter. Was the sickle hooks hard to pour with?

Looks like all they need is some paint (optional) and a little bit of plastic.Thumbs Up

It wasn't that hard to pour with the sickle hooks.Had to take some time to enlarge the bottom of the mold with a dremel tool.Once that was done it was real easy.

They all look great but I am with G. Throw the willow on with the red sickle and go fishing. I have done real well with the willow blades on that style head. Here is another use for them.
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Nice Job! Add a black body / silver tail and it's "GAME ON".
NightProwler

sickle hooks kick butt :) there about the only thing I use anymore


Josh

Looking good .

Sickles do the job if you don't tip with a minnow, but the larger barb on the aberdeen works better with minnows. Those have collars so I'm thinking that you got em for plastics. I find em used and without a collar and tie em up with lots of different color combo's and they do well. Mostly I decorate brushpiles with em. I like the willow leaf better, slower flash and better profile.

Will agree that the sickle is about all that I use. More and better hook ups. Paint them ether chartreuse or white. and put a electric chicken plastic bait on them and then start hunting them big SLABS. Love to slow troll them.

Redman

I like um for those crappie with teeth ! But my pet rock's seem to like them as well !!! LOL !

Do you have the newer asst mold??? Just trying to figure out why you had to dremel the mold??? I have the old asst one and you don't have to mod it to use bigger hooks.

I bought the new 1/32 adn 1/16 and was disppointed to see that it was double sided
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Even with this one you can use 2's and 4's, now anything bigger you'd have to mod. Had I known the mold looked like this I wouldn't have bought it.

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Bought the mold about 4 years ago,just never did any pouring until recently.Got the mold at Everharts in Clinton before they moved to their new location.Had to remove enough material from the mold for the hook point to fit.Not that much at all.Waiting on a order of Crane Swivels the will be back at it.

Thanks for all the input.

Okay if your molding some with smaller hooks you might have to clear some for hook points, but size 2??? Should have been no reason to have to cut anything. Even my double sided when you see the small opening between the two sizes will take a size 2 without having to make a cut.

Only thing I would advise or say is as long as you make them for your self and not for resale they should be great. If you were going to sell any I would think again on that as Blakemore is the only ones that can sell any kind of pony head jig. It's their trademark they applied for hand got in 1994 and a trademark is not like a patent that runs out. I love the Roadrunners and buy mine from Blakemore to tie and sell.

Skip

It will take a regular size 2 hook without any modification.Just not the sickle in size 2.That's why I had to remove a little to get the sickle hook to work.
I only make for me and my Dad.Don't plan on selling any.Thanks for the input

They all work no matter what it seems. I started using RR's in the mid to late 1970's and still use mostly the 1/32 and even with that stinking #6 regular bend hook they catch a lot of crappie. I do have some pony heads for personal use my self that I got before I knew that I couldn't sell them and thankfully the guy that paid the price for doing that saw my post way back then and told me the story. I since got to buy heads from them so I can sell the real Roadrunner Heads hand tied which is what I wanted to do from the start. I use them every year long lining the spring and they pay off very well ever year.

Good Luck and yours should pay off for you with lots of crappie!

Skip

They all look awesome! I'd agree on the sickle. Great you n your father are sharing the past time. I look forward to seeing the fish they catch.
Good info on sales there but there are side roads to everything I believe.

Here's a few a fellow craftsman makes:


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