Should have been camping on the Cumberland River tonight, Canceled due to work, :dono.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...mermartins.jpg
These should do the job, there's always Labor Day Weekend. Here's to hoping.
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Should have been camping on the Cumberland River tonight, Canceled due to work, :dono.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...mermartins.jpg
These should do the job, there's always Labor Day Weekend. Here's to hoping.
Those are nice. Should catch bunches of fish with those.
Well done, good colors.
Nice looking spinners!!
Very nice spinners! Did you make them from scratch? Thoase are really cool! I would be interested in knowing how you bend the wire just right to twist it off on top and bottom and what kind of weight is that? Just lead weight? Thanks for any info in advance.
These are just the 1/16 oz worm weights you can buy them anywhere Wally World etc. I use a scrap piece of wire and powder coat and cure them. These I'll be using for trout so I used a lighter weigh wire 0.024 gauge. Wire I bend on a Twist Tec I purchased about a year ago. Highly recommend the bender, a wee bit pricey but you can make just about anything on it. Twistech Wire Former
I also use the 1/8 - 5/8 oz bullets lead weights the same way. Heavier wire and usually dressing the treble with deer hair or duck feather. These trebles are dressed with a palmer hackle feather.
Here are a few of the others I make
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...porary-169.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...porary-174.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...porary-134.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...lackTailly.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4..._29_06_Pro.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4..._56_49_Pro.jpg
Awesome! Thanks for the information. I may have to go and buy one of the twisters and do some of my own sometime. Very nice work on all of your jigs. Nice pics too!
Thanks for post gave me some ideas and will be buying tool also!
Just a heads up the only down side I have found with the twist tec is the loop size. It's a lot bigger than the conventional spinners you buy in stores. I've always wondered if the water displacement from the bigger loop makes any difference.
One of my best memories as a kid was absolutely killing a school of BIG feeding white bass herding shad up on a flat with homemade inline spinners. They were bullet sinker weights painted white with black spots, on white dressed trebles with silver blades and red beads.
They look good! I never seem to have much luck with that style bait though, not sure why and even have a bunch of bought ones I thought would be good, but just not for me I guess, LOL! Good job on them!
I target mostly trout with these. A few bass hit them but thats about it.
That is probably why they are so popular where trout are, LOL! I just thought any fish should hit them, but I have not done well with these Southern Crappie and Bass as of yet. I have 2 boxes full of them, LOL!Quote:
Originally Posted by QPassage
Is there any information on matching the blade size to the worm weight so you get maximum spin on the fall? Or is it hit and miss? They look very professional to me. Great job!
I have the same eye size issue with the old Janns Netcraft bender. Got mine back in the 80's
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One on the right is a real rooster tail and mine is on the right same large eyelet - I'd like the small eyelet too.
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Kind of a hit/miss. Usually on 1/16 oz and 1/8 oz I use a #3 as these are in first pic. I have found the inline blades to be the best, sometimes the willow blades are hard to get them to spin unless the wire is perfectly straight. I use both gold and silver usually on the same lure color. Typically using the Gold on cloudy days and the Silver when the sun is out. I catch the trout here on both dressed and non dressed trebles. Although I think the lure over all looks much better with it dressed.