Making your own Pill head jigs

well I was running low on pill heads so I decided to make some from ballheads.

Here's my tools
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1/16th oz ball heads
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Using the underside of the pliers - hook eye up - line it up and squeeze
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Now turn the jig Hook and put the hook eye down and squeeze just enough to even it out
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And the finished pillheads!!!!
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...1/100_1988.jpg

and a few of them painted up
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...1/100_1992.jpg

Good use of what you have. The finished products look very good. :)

I bought some smooth jaw pliers after I bought 2400 heads for s guy on ebay years ago and all of them were loose so that was a way to make them tight and I still have the pliers and they can come in handy.

Nice! But what were the needle nose for? JK. Thinking I'll try this also, a good way to make pill heads for 3-D eyes!

I made some but used hammer and anvil. Worked pretty good but could never tell a differance catching fish......use Round or Minnow Heads all the time now.

The needle nose worked but the wire cutters were better. I tried a 1/32 oz ball head with the needle nose and they were fine for those.

Fatman great tip

I wanted this style of jig but with 8 different molds now I didn't want to buy another .......... lol just got a 1/16 oz horse or pony head mold and the madness continues lol

thank you very much

glad to share - I have alot of molds but didn't want to have to buy a pill head with assorted sizes when I only use the 1/32nd and 1/16th heads. I can sit in front of the tube on a really rainy day and make up a bunch of them.

That is an awesome tip Fatman. I usually buy mine from Herb aka Nightprowler here on the forums. Might try a few tomorrow. I love the nice erractic action of the pillheads. Great post!

Thanks nice to give back a bit for all I've learned here!!!!!!!!!

Nice man, good boot leg tech. Lol

Way to improvise, Doug. That's when things begin to evolve. No more just "I have this n that".
Thx are in order, even for those in the know.
Great tutorial n your painteds look great as usual.
Love to learn and picked up a tip here.
Keep at it.

Where's redman at anyways?

Redman Has been missing in action for awhile. But fear not he is still a round. Between the garden and ill family members he has his plate full. Glad to see that some one still thinks of me. I did get to talk to Skip the other day for a few minutes about this and that.

Yes Fatman did a really good tutorial of the home made pill heads. I do mine on a press that way I can control the width on every one plus I don't crack the lead. Any one who tries this should do some on the bias or offset. They have a very different action in the water. I have been doing a lot of the Flash Ducks on the pill heads. When the fish are present and active there is no better jig to use on them here. Lately it has been Natural Gadwall and blue, Gadwall and red, and Pink and Chartreuse. Have caught a few on the all black Kiptail threadneck. With all the cold fronts that have been moving thur its hard to get a good bite going around here.

Keep posting and I will chime in when I have something interesting to add.

Redman

Always, Yoda.
You should know that.
I just don't play here much.
Hope family gets up n runnin quicker than garden.

No need to wait to chime in. Just do.

ADAM

Yeah but you got lots of cool toys that no one else has there buddy!!!!!!!!LOL I remember when you posted a pic of the press, hard to find good toys like that and if you do it'll cost.

Good to see you posting