I want to try my hand at making a floating grub for my Carolina Rig. How do I do it?
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I want to try my hand at making a floating grub for my Carolina Rig. How do I do it?
ELAZTECH.... i use their floating worm for carolina rigging. theyre amazing
OK. I will google them. Thank you. I need to find where I can buy their plastic material so I can make my own. I found lots of sites that sell floaring worms.....but, as I said I just need a small amount to just make a few dozen grubs for myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by river slabs are better
I float mine on carolina rigs with a small walleye float.....it doesn't seem to scare the fish.....I have some that are lime green. I also use them shellcracker fishing with a carolina rig or a drop shot rig to float my redworms off the bottom a little bit.
I have done that and it works well. I just had a dream last night to try and do an underwater presentation with just a hook and grub. The bad part was that every grub I tried in the test bucket this morning also sank the #4 hook.Quote:
Originally Posted by "G"
Hey Ship,
Elaztech is proprietary plastic and can only be made with there heavy pressure machines. They sell grubs at different stores. . There are some micro bubbles you can add to your plastic I hear!
Thanks for the heads up on microbubbles. That is possibly the tip I am looking for.
Oh crap! Looks like the cost of microbubbles and the high pressure equipment needed to inject them is cost prohibitive for the occasional small time user like me. I might do better pouring plastic around a slice from a foam bobbers insert. Stay tuned........ before I attempt that I am asking all you experts if this might be a very bad idea. I will not try it until I hear from you guys and gals.
The hot plastic would probably melt the foam. Also that foam can produce some bad fumes when hot or melting so be carefull if you try it. Also idf that foam has absorbed some small amount of moisture.....it could react with the hot plastic and explode.......just guessing here so you need to be carefull here.Quote:
Originally Posted by shipahoy41
Great. Thank you so much.Quote:
Originally Posted by ifish
Be VERY careful with the micro bubbles...they are a significant inhalation hazard.
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Originally Posted by DaBehr
Is a.mask enough? I have asthma and bronchitis chronic. Thanks.
I don't know if this will help but Mann came out with a tube kit with foam inserts. I bought one but I don't rember using the inserts. My thought was that if I could figure out how to make some small enough, they would probably be great to insert in a tube and float up under a oak tree or around cypress boles for bluegills / warmouths. They will certainly take fly rod poppers.
Is that a mounted crappie on your thread? If it is it's a really nice display. Hoe big was the fish?
Luther
Heck with it. I will just stick with buying floating jighead and use my Carolina Rig.
sorry I haven't been on ship I've been awful busy I believe the plastic that you would want is a 502 plastic from lure-craft I do not use any floating agents in my plastic I simply by the plastic that looks I've only got one gallon for my personal use we use this for plastic worms and insects and stuff like this that I want to plastic to float you can get online and go to their site and look at the different plastics that they have please let us know how you do if you do get a gallon of the 502 we have tried it and I like it it's a different type of plastic than I have been using we had been using Calhoun's warning about using different plastics make sure that you have talked to other guys that have used different plastics yourselves to get information not all plastics I like there are quite a few of them didn't smoke in our horrible to use so far Calhoun's has been real good and I do like the 502 plastic from lure-craft probably in the future I will be ordering 55 gallons from them.a personal note to everyone we have been extremely busy with my property we are trying to sell it and relocate we've been looking at property in Texas also Louisiana but most likely that we will land up in Texas we plan on buying property not too far from skip we've had our place up for sale for over a year and no luck yet so we are still hoping that somebody will come along and buy it we are dying to get down to Texas to catch some of those big crappie hopefully there will be some water left when we get there if we do.Quote:
Originally Posted by shipahoy41
You and Skip willmake fine neighbors. I hope that happens for you. I gave up on the floating grub idea. I have bronchitis and asthma and everything says beware of the fumes. I did not need a gallon of the stuff as I was only making a few for myself to float on a #4 hook for bull gills and deep crappie.
I will pray that your move to Texas happens soon.
I wish You the best of luck selling Your house and getting a fair price. Hope You end up exactly where you want to be Bob.CFQuote:
Originally Posted by snake River
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Originally Posted by Luther
Luther, that is a mounted Crappie. It is at the Bass Pro Shop in Leeds Alabama. I did not catch that one. I wish I had. I just liked the mount so I took a photo of it.
From snake river"a personal note to everyone we have been extremely busy with my property we are trying to sell it and relocate we've been looking at property in Texas also Louisiana but most likely that we will land up in Texas we plan on buying property not too far from skip we've had our place up for sale for over a year and no luck yet so we are still hoping that somebody will come along and buy it we are dying to get down to Texas to catch some of those big crappie hopefully there will be some water left when we get there if we do.
Best of luck selling your place bob, a member of my family is in real estate here in Illinois and yes its been very slow but is now starting to pick up fairly good here. And farm land is priced the highest its ever been in most places of Illinois so hopefully your market will pick up & you ncan sell. Best of Luck to you...........jax