Do-It's Bat Jig....beefed up

Do-It came forward with what they call the bat jig this year and it is a doozie. Multiple sizes in the mold....1/32, 1/24, 1/16, 3/32, 1/8, 3/16, 1/4. All take the #6 Wacky hook that Do-It sells. The concept of the forward eye on these heads is great but the size 6 hook in the larger couple sizes didn't sit well with me so I did a little hocus-pocus stuff and now have the mold able to handle the larger #2 wacky hook. The 2 larger head sizes are great for walleye and since they are a swimming style head, NOBODY else has them. :biggrin I'm likin that aspct.

Here's a picture showing the 1/24 and 1/4 so you can see the hook size difference.

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I used 1/16 and 1/32 ball- heads cast on wacky hooks all last fall with super success. The swimming action your plastic attains on these heads with the wacky hook is incredible and the fish were darned quick to support the concept. I'll never use another conventional jig while casting and retrieving swimming type plastics again. The new head design will be a dynamite walleye head for casting shallow water with swim plastics for the walleyes.

Did Good on that mold Ctom!! We really like it we pitch(bass fish'n pitch'n and flipping) and short cast to cover!! This design swims through the toughest cover!!! Hooks are kind of pricey but worth it and some good sizes really like the 3/32 and 1/8 oz sizes!! that 1/24 is a good one too:twocents We think a swivel and willow leaf blade will work good allso!! :twocents

can you put up a pic with a plastic mounted on that? I would like to see how much hook exposure there is. I think that would work well for speckled trout in the 1/4 ounce size.

Attachment 185327 Not trying to steal your thread Ctom we really like this mold!! Some arkie crappie tubes 2 in and their larger crappie tubes!! on the bat jig these are 1/8 oz!!

This is what I have been making to have wide gap jigs. http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...pszjjgevgz.jpg

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Ma has me tied up for the rest of the day but tomorrow morning I'll mount a 2.5" Paddletail on it and get a picture for you.

Thanks that would be perfect.

Here's a 4" Ringworm mounted on the head. Plenty of gap.

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Tom, I wonder if a hitch hiker on the front and skin hook the bait would kind of make it weedless. I designed a shaky head a few years ago with a wire on top to thread the bait and bend the wire over and then skin hook the bait and PJ lures copied the idea before I could get it out. That whacky hook looks doable on a weedless concept. Nice dremal work by the way. You have some good ideas and should start your own bait company!
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Nice mod Ctom!!!!!

Those are nice!!

I would like to try these in the salt water for reds and trout maybe even tarpon. Where can I get some.

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Tom, I wonder if a hitch hiker on the front and skin hook the bait would kind of make it weedless. I designed a shaky head a few years ago with a wire on top to thread the bait and bend the wire over and then skin hook the bait and PJ lures copied the idea before I could get it out. That whacky hook looks doable on a weedless concept. Nice dremal work by the way. You have some good ideas and should start your own bait company!
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In the 1/4 ounce cavity you may find enough room to play with getting the hitch hiker in the head. I'm not going to go there though because I never fish any thing needing one and I never skin hook a plastic...mine [plastics] all go directly on the shank. The single wire weed-guard is doable without too much change to the mold and the change would be quick and very simple.

I have a mold that casts 4 each of 1/32 and 1/16 collar-less ballheads that I have modded for the wacky hooks. The 1/32gets the size 6 and the 1/16 gets the size 2. These are super good heads for panfish/crappie, but the bat head offers the larger sizes [1/4 and 3/16] that I want for walleye and smallies. In fact the only two cavities in the bat mold that I altered were those two, the largest. I am convinced that the swimming characteristics of the heads using this hook design is by far better than any round head with a swimming type of plastic bait. Lots of my walleye baits are swimmers, but even drifting with a slightly longer line I feel that the hook design makes the jigs an advantage to the user. And the head design itself is unlike any other head....you have to have them in your hand to see what I refer to. Jackie53 will know what I am referring to.

This wacky hook concept is nothing but dynamic in that it offers a whole new meaning to retrieving with a swim plastic. So much attention is paid to bass tackle that the technology gets lost when it comes to crappies, panfish or even walleyes. All of this eye-forward hook thought is a super way to swim something that could only marginally be called swimming before. At 35 degrees, the leg angle is such that on the retrieve your bait slides toward you flat with the hook riding up where it belongs and virtually all hook-ups were in the roof of the fishes' mouth. The eye-forward jigs that I have made got seriously put to the test last fall and it got to the point that I didn't even bring conventional jigs along other than a handful in case we needed to clip on a float. The eye-forward heads are not at all conducive to float fishing.

The Bat Jig is the second jighead to use this wacky hook. The other mold is a round head with a wire weed guard capability. The weed guard is not an essential and can be omitted in casting the heads which are sized as:1/16, 3/32, 1/8, 3/16, 1/4. The Wacky mold's item number is WCK-5-AWG and can be viewed at Do-It's on-line store. Having both of these molds available to the crappie and panfish angler a whole new world of jig options are blooming right now. Walleye and smallie anglers will benefit from these heads as well. I know I'm glad I found them.

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In the 1/4 ounce cavity you may find enough room to play with getting the hitch hiker in the head. I'm not going to go there though because I never fish any thing needing one and I never skin hook a plastic...mine [plastics] all go directly on the shank. The single wire weed-guard is doable without too much change to the mold and the change would be quick and very simple.

I have a mold that casts 4 each of 1/32 and 1/16 collar-less ballheads that I have modded for the wacky hooks. The 1/32gets the size 6 and the 1/16 gets the size 2. These are super good heads for panfish/crappie, but the bat head offers the larger sizes [1/4 and 3/16] that I want for walleye and smallies. In fact the only two cavities in the bat mold that I altered were those two, the largest. I am convinced that the swimming characteristics of the heads using this hook design is by far better than any round head with a swimming type of plastic bait. Lots of my walleye baits are swimmers, but even drifting with a slightly longer line I feel that the hook design makes the jigs an advantage to the user. And the head design itself is unlike any other head....you have to have them in your hand to see what I refer to. Jackie53 will know what I am referring to.

This wacky hook concept is nothing but dynamic in that it offers a whole new meaning to retrieving with a swim plastic. So much attention is paid to bass tackle that the technology gets lost when it comes to crappies, panfish or even walleyes. All of this eye-forward hook thought is a super way to swim something that could only marginally be called swimming before. At 35 degrees, the leg angle is such that on the retrieve your bait slides toward you flat with the hook riding up where it belongs and virtually all hook-ups were in the roof of the fishes' mouth. The eye-forward jigs that I have made got seriously put to the test last fall and it got to the point that I didn't even bring conventional jigs along other than a handful in case we needed to clip on a float. The eye-forward heads are not at all conducive to float fishing.

The Bat Jig is the second jighead to use this wacky hook. The other mold is a round head with a wire weed guard capability. The weed guard is not an essential and can be omitted in casting the heads which are sized as:1/16, 3/32, 1/8, 3/16, 1/4. The Wacky mold's item number is WCK-5-AWG and can be viewed at Do-It's on-line store. Having both of these molds available to the crappie and panfish angler a whole new world of jig options are blooming right now. Walleye and smallie anglers will benefit from these heads as well. I know I'm glad I found them.

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A lot of experience and Knowledge!!! WOW!!! Have had the wacky mold sense it came out!!! Cannot make enough for the smallmouth folks!! Had a call this morning(4:30) before work for bat head jig's!! Is a winner for sure!!! Thanks Ctom!!

Lots to think about from you guys. I just pour what my friend and I can use. It is very fun and I find myself soon with a lot of surplus because I enjoy it lol. I mainly spider rig and long line though. I first started this as I just couldn't find what I wanted to use and try to fish with. Thanks for the info from all.

Heck, I guess I am going to have to get that mold after all the hype about it. Tom , do you have a good source for those hooks. Thanks for all the info also. You do some great work CTom.

Yeah that look nice Ctom. That would be perfect for speckled trout.