Visit to Trout Magnet

Went out and spent about 2 hours talking with Jeff Smith today. First things first. The colors I showed are not yet ready for sale......except the Shonuff. But here is the deal...if you call an order in, and if you want the red and meal worm color, or the green mealworm they will throw some in with your order. They have not tested those colors out on fish yet and don't want to run a big number of them until they have an idea. The new colors they do have on the market....Cookies and Creme....and Gunmetal. Today they started selling the 1/32 ounce #8 hook D2 jig. No doubt the D2 jig is a trout catching lure but as I got to looking at them I saw bluegill candy lying there....LOL. I really like the back-purple. Also as some know they are making a 1/32 ounce tungsten jig head for a Trout Magnet. Virtually same physical size as a TM lead 1/64 ounce head but weighs twice as much. Not sure when these will go on sale as they are working out some kinks but it wont be too awful long. I got 4 packs to field test...and you can bet I will do it....LOL. Could a moderator please rotate pics? Ive rotated until I am blue in the face and they will not show upright in the preview. I run into this a couple of times a year.


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I wouldn’t mind trying some of those tungsten jigs when available.

Some quality looking stuff for sure. I’m with Dave, those jigs look awesome

them tiny hair jigs look like good medicine for sure :cheers2

Yep, this is about the time I inventory stock to see what I need. These jigs and the D2 look really nice.
Bob

What is the advantage of the beveled head?

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What is the advantage of the beveled head?

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Those are shad dart heads and when twitched are very erratic. That's the head he settled on when he came up with the Trout Magnet almost 30 years ago. Over the years the hook has been changed and tweaked many times but the head has alway stayed the same.


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Thanks for sharing Randy. Those tungsten heads and the new trout magnets sure do look good.

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Thanks for sharing Randy. Those tungsten heads and the new trout magnets sure do look good.

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They are nice. The heads have an issue and Jeff will not put them on the market with a known defect. It should get worked out soon. It takes 6000 degrees to melt tungsten and no one in the states does tungsten. Many tungsten makers use the paste but these are the real deal. I’ve weighed them and they are 1/32 as labeled. The head profile is almost exactly same size as the 1/64 TM jig head.


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I’m interested in trying the tungsten jigs. Hopefully they will be available soon.

Great looking gear

When I talked to Jeff at the expo he was talking about them and showed me some pics of them in the packaging he had on his phone. I know he was telling me the colors and how tungsten is hard to work with. I know typically he would like plated gold and nickel but not really a possibility with tungsten or I don’t think so. Very cool to chat with him and pick his brain. I’d love to get out and fish with David sometime as well. Just good folks down there at the TroutMagnet place.

Are the hooks the same on these new tungsten jigs?


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It's a Mustad hook....same as on the 1/64 Trout Magnet jig head.

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Anybody know How much they are going for ?
The ones I’m making from a size 10 Mustad Ultrapoint jig hook and a 4.6mm Tungsten bead are costing me about forty five cents each .
They don’t weigh 1/32 , but they’re close .
With me fishing around a lot of riprap , I sometimes lose a few .

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Anybody know How much they are going for ?
The ones I’m making from a size 10 Mustad Ultrapoint jig hook and a 4.6mm Tungsten bead are costing me about forty five cents each .
They don’t weigh 1/32 , but they’re close .
With me fishing around a lot of riprap , I sometimes lose a few .

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They're not ready for market yet. There is issue with the head. So don't know what the price will be but it will be more than 45 cents....LOL.


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Thanks for the update. I’m pretty excited to hopefully get the new trout Magnet colors. And depending on cost I might pick up some of the tungsten heads when available.

Nate.

Welp my brother called today to place an order so he could get some samples of the unreleased colors. The lady who answered, checked if she could actually do it and . . . It was a no go guys. So we’ll just have to wait like all the other peasants. Lol. Sorry if you get in trouble Randy.

Nate.

Those D2’s are nice, bluegill candy like you say.

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Welp my brother called today to place an order so he could get some samples of the unreleased colors. The lady who answered, checked if she could actually do it and . . . It was a no go guys. So we’ll just have to wait like all the other peasants. Lol. Sorry if you get in trouble Randy.

Nate.

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No trouble at all. No way to know if Jeff was there or not when he called. But that came straight from the owner to tell y’all that….LOL. I do know he has more irons in the fire than I would ever want. Not sure I would go into the lure business after seeing how much work he puts in.

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When I talked to Jeff at the expo he was talking about them and showed me some pics of them in the packaging he had on his phone. I know he was telling me the colors and how tungsten is hard to work with. I know typically he would like plated gold and nickel but not really a possibility with tungsten or I don’t think so. Very cool to chat with him and pick his brain. I’d love to get out and fish with David sometime as well. Just good folks down there at the TroutMagnet place.

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TM really is a fantastic operation. While a guide trip with Sore Lip’Em All is not exactly cheap it is one of the best fish catching experiences one could have. While I have not fished with David he knows the White and the Little Red very well. And he catches a ton of trout for himself and clients. I ran into him the other day at a Little Red boat ramp. He was just coming off the water after about 4 hours of fishing. He landed 65 in those 4 hours. He has dropped by my house a couple of times and we talk fishing, lures, and of course rods also. He has asked me to go fishing a couple of times but I’ve always had an appointment of some kind. If you ever make it out this way if I’m available we can hit the river.

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I missed this until now. Very nice offer and if I do make it down that way we can try to make it happen. I’d say you are chomping at the bit for the warmer weather. I thought I was going to get to go next Tuesday to crappie fish but the girls start soccer that evening :/