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    Quote Originally Posted by CrappiePappy View Post
    CK ... I've been using Panfish Assassins for nigh on to 20yrs & they've been killer from the getgo !! Made the switch from always using tubes, to using the Assassins when I first got into shooting docks down at Watts Bar Lake in East Tenn. They've been a large part of my jig casting arsenal since then, and I still use them often ... especially when using a small profile bait is warranted.

    I can only imagine how much better they will produce when Slab Sauce is added to the mix !!
    I'm glad to hear that. I was wondering how do you keep your Assassins from coming apart. The crappie are hitting it really hard that it tears them off the 1/32 jig. I was thinking about tapping a dot of crazy glue to the jig. What do you do to maximize life out of it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CrappieKila View Post
    I'm glad to hear that. I was wondering how do you keep your Assassins from coming apart. The crappie are hitting it really hard that it tears them off the 1/32 jig. I was thinking about tapping a dot of crazy glue to the jig. What do you do to maximize life out of it?
    I've only had that problem (to any great extent) with hollow tubes. Started gluing them to the jighead, but then the Bluegills just bit off the skirt tails, one by one. Went to solid body tubes & no longer had that problem. I haven't had that much of a problem with PA's tearing up from Crappie, but Bluegills have been known to bite the tail off (esp. chartreuse tails).

    If I were forced to use glue again ... I'd probably attempt to glue the plastic bait back together for re-use, rather than gluing the bait to the jighead. Reason being, once that bait is ready to be replaced, you have to scrape the glue/plastic remnants off the jighead in order to get the next plastics to line up and fit against the head properly (sometimes). That takes about the same amount of time as cutting the jig off & replacing the whole thing. But, putting a new plastic bait on & gluing the broken bodies back together at a more convenient time means you're not stopping your fishing for as long a period of time. And the glued back together bodies have time to dry & seal more properly.

    I used Loctite Super Glue Gel Control because the squeeze tubes of Super Glue would get hard & have to be thrown away so fast that they were not worth the cost & effort. The Gel Control bottles have "wings" on the side that you push in to make the gel come out, and it has a nozzle tip for better control of placement of the glue.

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    You can get it at many stores (like Walmart) for about $2.50

    When I "was" using it .... I let it dry for no more than 2mins & it seemed to bond good enough to hold ... even in that short a time. Like I said ... soon as I glued them & started fishing with them, the Bluegills were yanking on the skirt tails of my tubes, but they never pulled the skirt down ... just yanked the tails off. Now, I'm sure that they weren't actually "biting" the skirt tails off of my tubes, but holding onto them when I set the hook, and that's when they were ripped off. Point of that is ... the glue held the body on the jig, even with that much force applied against it (even after only a couple of minutes of drying time).

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    I will be picking some if that up and I wasn't the only person having problems with the Assassin coming apart after a few hits.

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