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kind through these together didn't really get it perfectly done like I wanted to and should been using a toothpick for the paint job but anyway this is just an ideal that I had another gentleman on here makes them without the marabou so I thought I would try and add some feathers I'm sure that we would come up with something a little bit more tasteful to the eyeball.
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The fish should love them. Ought to have a nice wobble and some flash. Looks like injured baitfish to me.
I think they are cool looking, Bob. That is a good color for fishing the bridge pilings on the Louisiana side. Danny
Hey Bob old Zell Roland use to put a little hackle on the PopR's he used and maybe that would look good too. He just put a little on them. I have a couple of his for collecting and remind me and I will show you next time your here! Should fish fine like it is though!
Cool idea!
Skip
Those look good to me Bob. I did a bunch of slab jigging last winter, and that was a ton of fun. Those should do fine.
Looks cool, but you will have to let the fish tell you.
thanks guys for only comments will be working with this some more I definitely need to work on the painting or paint jobs and of course we need to do a better job of tying marabou or whatever.
Those look like fish catching machines
Along the same line as this bait Bob, I've been making these little willow blade baits for years. The willows are not weighted though. These are #1 willows.
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The ones shown are #1 willows that I poke another hole in the end of the blade that comes without one. I add the rings and trebles and BINGO....excellent bait. The finished one is a dark transparent purple with the glow dot eye....deadly on cold water or winter crappie. I generally add a tiny thread of plastic for a teaser tail or sometimes I'll add a waxie, spike or a minnow head if the fish want meat. Trout like them as well thru the ice when I use a gold-plated blade and add a strip of bright orange tape on 1/2 of one side of the blade running the tape from hole to hole. These are extremely light and a crappie can suck these in from almost a foot away. Sunfish like this bait too.
These can be weighted with solder and an Aberdeen hook can be used by running the hook thru the eye and then laying it down along the hollow side. No need to drill the second hole if soldering.
I sell tons of these when the ice forms on the water around here.
ctom They do make a number one blade or a small blade with two holes I believe that I seen them in one of my catalogs under ice fishing . do you have a Hagen's catalog go to their section where they have ice blades and take a look at swinging spanner ice blades.
I like the willows and have seen those with the second hole but you can't get gold plate in those. They're polished brass. It takes me about 5 minutes to drill 100 of these and I have a lot of time.
I did not check with worth company to see if you can get them in gold I made up a few more today messing around these are just cheap blades similar to what you singing on the other site doesn't take me long to put the second hole in them anyway I can't enjoy making them both ways either soldering or split rings in the second hole I believe that I can come up with a few more ideals as far as ice fishing goes I want to take a small Colorado and solder a hook on the underside by the way the ones I'm posting here are powder painted and I can do glow-in-the-dark without no problem ctom where things start to freeze up there where you're at I'm supposed that you've got a frost by now.
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No frost at home yet but it did look like winter up at the cabin a couple weeks back. We had some really heavy frost up there then but it didn't freeze over puddles or anything. We're supposed to see near 80 here this afternoon so I don't think I have to worry about frost yet. But we are digging the fall bulbs today so they can dry....great day for drying them what with the wind we have .
we have a beautiful day today about 76° finally we are getting some cooler weather but I see it's going back to the 80s I'll be glad when I get out of here and get back to Oregon we should be getting some frost in a little town where I come from a pretty quick yes we used to dig our bulbs up every year and put them in the basement.Quote:
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I have used some spoons similar to pink/white one for big blue gills, without the tail Just a #8 single hook on swivel but open end if hook has to face up, no other bait needed but sometimes a pink waxie helps. Also I believe the ones in picture are upside down for best action(I realize u are showing them this way for pict.)Quote:
Originally Posted by snake River
I don't understand what you mean by upside down for the picture.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaxsprat