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Originally Posted by JUNGLEJIMJIGS
Reply With QuoteSo I wanted to experiment some with the old feather inside the plastic bait trick. The videos show affixing the plastic bait first, then hiking up the rear end to make room for tying in the feather. Then release and allow the plastic to consume the lashing. I guess it works.
Another way is to use a large needle and skewer the plastic bait, pull through and trim. I used my bobbin threader, and it pushes through cleanly and leaves a very small wound channel. I added some super glue to the feathers just prior to pulling all the way through. This took the glue and the feather up inside and secured everything.
Works with MareABoo
Here you can see that it allows the feather to be far away from the hook. I also used a amputated section to make a small lure.
The purple was my first attempt at this, and is mareaboo. The white is ostrich and that seems to work pretty good.
Then finally I used some rubber legs and those turned out cool. The rubber bait squeezes the strands together at the exit point, and they tend to stay grouped. I like the look. Here it is compared with a hand tied version to see the difference.
So rubber legs and ostrich feathers work best it seems. Really not sure that using a section of plastic bait is even worth fooling with. Interesting, but is it stimulating ? Will the stupid fish even care ? Will they think it is a Lion and turn tail and swim. Crappie are fickle if nothing else. I think they are moody and lay around and sulk.
I didn’t try peacock feathers or neck hackles but I am sure they too could be drawn up inside the plastic material. I am not sure I will ever even try either of those as I am probably pretty much done with this experiment. I will save the idea of using the bobbin threader for when I wish to add rubber legs to a bait. I like the look of legs running down each side.
Well we are mostly through August now and soon the days will be noticed as shorter and the plants will begin to season themselves in preparation of Old Man Winter. Football is upon us once again and the Fightin Gators will likely stink the field up again this year. They can beat any team on any given day, and they can lose to any team on any given day. Most of their games are on the SEC Network, which is free for most people. They however expect me to pay $200 a month to watch that channel because I live out in the country. So I only get to watch one or two games on free TV and the rest I listen to on the radio. The SEC network pays the University of Florida millions upon millions of dollars, and they don’t need the money, but they use it to acquire land in the area. Especially areas where family homes are used as dorms. SCOOP……. now the students must rent their housing. Also, being tax free they have taken millions of dollars in tax revenue away. Like a strangler fig on a cypress tree, they just keep squeezing.
I am not sure about hunting seasons yet. I need to read up and see when everything is happening. I especially like dove season. Bought some corn cobs for hogs and deer. Don’t think I will shoot the turkeys. This year we had a bumper crop of turkeys hatched. They are almost full grown now. I got to watch six troops worth of them growing up on the side of the road. They sure are cute when they are little, and they grow up so fast. I imagine life is hard though as many of the chicks are no longer traipsing about for me to see. They are the Osceola variety.
