Thread: Messing around with feathers and rubber

Originally Posted by crappieseeker

snake, I did it that way quite a while back but it was a little aggrevating and I do not like messing with the glue. Yours definately looks great and I will try mentioning it to the man about making a feather mold.

Messing with the glue is pretty simple we used a bottle of guerrilla superglue which has a nice tip on the bottle. The bottle is soft plastic so you can squeeze just what you want it goes Purdy fast for me if you look at the head of that jig in the picture you'll notice the superglue behind the head to the plastic. It locks everything in place. They are virtually indestructible. Except for the fish pulling the further support if you have them that long I usually lose them before I catch too many fish the area where I fish is full of rocks and also brush. We lose on the average every time I go out close to 25 to 50 jigs we think nothing of losing them part of the game of fishing for crappie.

Originally Posted by JSC

One thing U have to watch when using Super Glue and that is it will harden the Plastic after a while ... Holds good and is good for using when you are out fishing and want a quick "hold"

My 2 cents worth
JSC

yes I know about hardening but we've been using super glue for many years we started out with Canyon plastic tubes.

Originally Posted by snake River

Messing with the glue is pretty simple we used a bottle of guerrilla superglue which has a nice tip on the bottle. The bottle is soft plastic so you can squeeze just what you want it goes Purdy fast for me if you look at the head of that jig in the picture you'll notice the superglue behind the head to the plastic. It locks everything in place. They are virtually indestructible. Except for the fish pulling the further support if you have them that long I usually lose them before I catch too many fish the area where I fish is full of rocks and also brush. We lose on the average every time I go out close to 25 to 50 jigs we think nothing of losing them part of the game of fishing for crappie.

I use the exact kind of glue you are talking about. One thing I find with myself and alot of other fisherman is that I like to just change out the body and not the head too. So I like things I can pull off the head and switch. The feather baits make that a hard process without pulling the feathers out or pulling them back up through the bait. That is why I would like a little long bait and only have a small portion of them stem bonded into the ottom part of tha bait so that I can quick change. The glue you are talking about will work very well like you have it as long as you are not a lazy quick changer like me lol

Originally Posted by crappieseeker

I use the exact kind of glue you are talking about. One thing I find with myself and alot of other fisherman is that I like to just change out the body and not the head too. So I like things I can pull off the head and switch. The feather baits make that a hard process without pulling the feathers out or pulling them back up through the bait. That is why I would like a little long bait and only have a small portion of them stem bonded into the ottom part of tha bait so that I can quick change. The glue you are talking about will work very well like you have it as long as you are not a lazy quick changer like me lol

if I do change baits I usually throw the whole works away I do not mess around with the heads usually when I get ready to change our usually hit or Barb the hook. I know to some guys this is a waste but they are too inexpensive for me. We have over 40,000 jig heads available. Yes that is awesome figure 4 anybody to imagine but we go through a lot of them every year of course they are all different sizes and shapes for doing different things some more for plastic and some more for hand tying. We just ordered 1000 pain it with eyeballs is getting cheaper for me to have them done so we are having other people do the painting for us now but we do a lot of powder painting old soul besides ordering them pre-painted for our colors I want that I have here that you cannot possibly get. I have not displayed a lot of different powder paint colors that we have they are custom-made. Me and my big mouth I have not posted some of those, feared that I would get attacked:Dbut they are not the average powder paints I will have to make some up and show you guys. For the most part the industry deals with basic powder paints in case they comes aboard with a new one and of course there is a lot of mixing going on between the guys out there.

I thought about ordering me some powder paints, there are several colors out there that look nice. Not sure I want to get into another habit. You can just send me some of yours snake lol

we will have announcement to make regarding this post next week on the main board.

Originally Posted by crappieseeker

I thought about ordering me some powder paints, there are several colors out there that look nice. Not sure I want to get into another habit. You can just send me some of yours snake lol

what colors would you like to see .regarding PowerPoint I have one particular one but I'm sure that you would love.

looks good snake, I like em.