Crappies and panfish are my passion but each late fall, winter and early spring I get nudged into old habits, like walleye/sauger fishing. I love the cold water plastic bite these fish offer during this period. There is nothing like the rock-hard thump of a walleye hitting a jig with a plastic hung on it.
I have had an eye on a Jacobs mold for a while and finally have the likes of such in my hot little mitts. It arrived this morning. It didn't take long for me to blow out some plastic in several color patterns.
This is his 3" paddletailed worm. I had some samples last fall and the crappies went bonkers for the bait and when shortened an inch even larger sunfish nailed it. But what I wanted it for more than anything was the late fall, winter and early spring walleye bit in cold water. This bait was a trooper in the waldo department for me late in the fall. I wanted to try it on smallies but the wather and other things jumped up and said no, no. I have an early crappie spot that always has hungry smallies and in a month and a half I'll be on shore pitching these to see what the red eyes think of them.
This mold shoots pretty darned easy and two-color shotd are a snap....one of the easiest molds I have used to do two-color adaptations. While I don't have a blending block but I can see this bait as one that would be an easy shoot or maybe by using a twin-injector to get the color split. I suppose cutting and re-inserting a top or bottom haf might be done but I'll stick with the tail colors for now. 3
In case you can't tell, I already love this mold.