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    Now that right there is a fix. Looks like you clear coat your jigs. I will keep your technique for modifying in mind if these new wire inserts don’t work out as well as was said.

    Do-It mold’s motto is- “When pride is on the line”. I don’t think it is. While researching a fix I was reading about how their email system scans for words that relate to fixing design problems, and eliminates those messages before they can be read. That is so stupid it defies belief. Tackleunderground was where I saw that I think.

    I watched a video where a man is starting his own mold business and was buying cnc machines as fast as he could. Those molds cost more but I bet if there is a design issue those issues get addressed, not ignored by policy. The door is wide open and businesses lose market share all the time because someone makes a dumb decision. I would think they would welcome new ideas and incorporate what has been done Just like with your fix.

    This mold pours nicely and there is very little slop for me to clean up. I cut the hook thingie off these but that was all that was done. It makes the sizes I want so looks like the mold for me to go with. That Bat Jig mold sure is sweet though and I love the look of those heads when painted in lizard motif and reptilian eyes. Just like lizards. I add those Bobby Garland Stroll’Rs and they are amazing. Landed good fish on those- no dinks. Using the 1/4 ounce size right behind the boat. Even if they are not best choice, I cannot help myself. LOL

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    Here is a jig with the wire bent. I gooped polish around it to help steady that ridiculous wire.

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    I still read about Ultra Violet light as I believe crappie use UV light to help them to better catch prey.

    Lord Attenboro did a series on color in the animal kingdom, and he covered ultra violet light. He shoed insects, frogs, birds, and creatures living in the sea, all using UV light to find prey items, and suitable mates. He also covered another subject matter known as Polarized light. That is light that exists in just one plane. Things that are said to be polarized appear dark against a light background, because most things are not polarized.

    Imagine looking at something and I hand you a pair of sunglasses. Suddenly the objects appear differently. Each pair producing a different light effect. We forget that these other forms of light exist all around us because they come from the Sun, and we think about what we can see. Looks pretty to you means nothing to a fish. He also has the extra filtering of the water, which can be stained. What does a crappie see ?

    Well answer is we don’t know, but UV light is definitely real and definitely affecting our lure appearance. I like to use a lot of UV enhancement as I see it as helpful in getting my lures noticed.

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    This is enhancement of UV reflectivity. The UV light is actually shining over top and not on them as when it is on them the glow over powers the camera lens and I get imperceptible imagery.

    In low light conditions, as in early in the morning, UV reflectivity is noticeable even to my eye. Which has filters to prevent me from seeing too much UV light. Allowing UV light in to my retina would damage it over time and blind me. God gave me UV shielding so I can see three colors- trichromatic. Red- Blue-Yellow. We have lots of cones to see colors and can easily see an orange tiger hiding behind some rocks. Deer see orange as green and the tiger looks like a bush or rock or something. Tigers cannot produce green coloration, so they God went with orange. Which looks green to deer.

    So there is only speculation as to what our little buddies the crappie can see, what they cannot see, and what role light plays in their lives as predators. I speculate they have an early advantage every day, because they can see the minnow and the minnow cannot see them. After the Sun is high the visible light we can see becomes dominant and the UV advantage diminishes. As the Sun sets, again they have an edge over the minnows. They hide under docks, because it is dark under there and the minnows cannot see the crappie, but the crappie use their UV advantage to capture prey as it swims through.

    The lakes I fish are all murky. Either green or brown basically. These colors of water affect what the crappie can see. UV light penetrates much easier because of it’s rapid wave length, and that means at depth UV light is more important than visible, because the visible never made it down there. Remember those sunglasses ? Well I do not know what color red looks like to the crappie, it can appear to be green for all I care. Just so long as the colors I use on my lures can stand out against the background.

    We all know chartreuse yellow is a good color for fishing. People who scuba dine used to wear these beautifully bright chartreuse yellow swim suits so they could be seen by other divers more easily. Soon those suits fell out of favor because the color was renamed- Yum Yum Yellow. Sharks like Yum Yum Yellow. Yum Yum Yellow really glows when it encounters UV light.

    Crappie have camouflaged skin, much like the open ocean free dive spear fishermen utilize. They wear dark camo swim suits so they can get closer to their targeted fish. Crappie ease up slowly from the darkness below. Great White sharks attack from beneath where the prey cannot see them coming until too late. They can get up and after them too, but crappie like the slow rise from below.

    Many plastic baits have UV enhancements even if not mentioned by the manufacturer. I shine my light on different plastics and can see this reflectivity. So when added to the jig head many plastic offer even greater visibility. I am using my best most reflective colors. Yellow, green and orange. The walleye fishermen have used UV enhanced spinner blades for decades. Now I am using them for crappie. They powder paint or air brush the blades. I simply use fingernail polish.

    I just got the willow leaf blades today. I have Indiana blades and smaller french blades coming. I figure to offer a selection of different sounds and vibrations by using different blades. To go along with my many different colors and all the different profiles of plastic bait.

    I read where a few of our best crappie fishermen use nothing but Road Runners to troll. That tells me that once a spinner bait gets dialed in, it will always be the best producer. I think there is a difference between RRs and these jigs. Look different, sound different, produce different vibrations. The way the blade hangs straight out from the swivel on these jigs, gives these blades an advantage. Spin faster, so spin earlier, too. Go slower and get same spin, go same speed get faster spin. RRs have the blade coming off at an angle to the swivel. This impedes the action.

    RRs are effective when using feathers and buck hair and rabbit fuzz. Therefor these jig heads would also. I will be tying up some at some point. Right now I still think plastic is impossible to beat.
    Maybe they will bite this one……

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    Awesome report on your journey.

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    In furtherance…..scientists list the ability to see colors as follows.

    Monochromats- see only one color
    Dichromats can see two colors
    Trichromats can see three colors
    Tetrachromats can see four colors
    Pentachromats can see five colors


    We are trichromats in that we can see red, blue and green. Fish are tetrachromats in that they see the same three colors we see, but they add UV colors to make four.

    Imagine making lures that only used one color. Then imagine making lures with two colors. Then three, then four. Using UV enhancements allows for us to use four colors.

    Butterflies can actually see more than just five colors. Bees can see four and this ability to see in UV allows flowers to attract them much better than if using just three colors.

    So our little buddies the crappie might be very attracted to a color you are unable to see. LOL

    So which colors are popular for fishermen ? Well chartreuse yellow is popular and so is hot pink, neon green, and white. Three of those reflect UV with intensity. White does not, but enhancements can be added to white which is what I do. Black is popular and it does not reflect UV, but it doesn’t have to.

    Black is the absence of all color and white the inclusion of all color. Colors are “seen” by us through the process of reflection. If something reflects red light, we see that object as being red. If it reflects blue, we see it as blue. If it absorbs blue we do not get to see it as blue, because the light never reflected. It was absorbed. So things that absorb UV light are not seen as UV colors by fish, and objects that reflect UV are seen by fish.

    Using a UV flashlight allows us to experience UV colors….somewhat. We don’t get to truly see what they actually look like in the natural environment. We get an indication. Our eyes use filters to protect us from UV damage to our retinas. Fish eyes are built slightly different than ours, but are very similar in many respects. They focus differently.

    Have you ever walked out of a brightly lit house into a dark yard and had to wait for your eyes to adjust ? Of course you have and this same things occurs to fish, with some fish able to adjust at a faster rate than others. Bass and crappie adjust quickly, shad not so much. So early mornings and early evenings present crappie with an advantage over their prey and we notice this and wondered why. Well now you know why crappie bite early and late, because that is when it is easiest to catch their prey. They have an advantage if even for just a brief period of time. They have figured out that it is easier to feed early in the morning and developed the habit of doing so as they grew up.

    In my studies I have come to consider that vision may not be the most important sense for fish. Water transmits vibrations much more efficiently than air does. Oh sure we feel a breeze, but it has to be moving at a pretty good pace. While on water we see wakes appear out of no where and know that a distant boat must have gone past. These waves travel large distances. So underwater vibrations must be very commonplace, and fish have learned the differences between little fish and large fish, by sensing the vibrations. They can feel schools, fish feeding, all sorts of things. If it moves underwater it puts off a wave that is felt by the fish’s skin.

    Sounds also transmit very far underwater. Humpback whale songs can be heard many miles away. Fish swimming produce both waves which are felt and sounds which are heard. So a fish can sense a minnow’s presence long before it can actually see it. Growing up and living it’s entire life in stained water surely enhances their reliance on vibrations and sounds vs vision. Clear waters will allow vision to be primary….perhaps.

    So I am trying to use vision, both the visual spectrum we see plus the one that they can see which is UV. Sounds from whirling blades and vibrations from whirling blades. Three keys that all say -“Hey here I am ….. catch me if you can”.

    Smell and taste round out the senses and those are chemical in origin. Slab Sauce gives smell and taste a chance to enter into things as well. So a bait that offers everything is a bait that lacks for nothing. If we do our job and present it correctly, as in behaving as they expect a food item to behave, the fish will eat it. We are fortunate that crappie are aggressive. I am screaming by at 1 mph so they have to be aggressive in order for me to catch them. My jigs are like the High School’s Marching Band coming down Main Street…..even the barber awakens as they pass in review.

    I am still just learning about catching crappie, and to be fair horribly under skilled at this point, I am improving. Traipsing about wildly and without purpose, in a misguided effort to find the devils is my biggest impediment to filling the box. Once found I will manage my share. This will improve with time on the water as they underwater environment is always changing and crappie move about for different reasons, and it is up to me to discover their secrets.
    Maybe they will bite this one……

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    Wow, those look great. UV Glow'rs.
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    Well I have read a good bit on UV but you brought a lot of info I had not uncovered. Thanks for the report.
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    Yes it all comes down to Cones and Rods in the eyes and animals are just Blessed with all the extras we didn't get. I read up on UV color and what they add to the distance a fish can see a color markedly farther if it has UV color or Florescent color and it's not even close. The color that can be seen farther in water is Blue with Violet close behind, other loose they ability to be seen as the water depth increases. I spent a lot of time reading about this and which all the articles I read were still up on the internet, but some really good ones are not.

    Also most Whites are naturally Florescent so when you get some White Hackle, Marabou or Bucktail it's going to Fluoresces with UV or Black Light.

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    Is depth of bait and amount of UV factored into this.

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    Way too much information for my old 66 year old brain to process.

    I just use Livescope.!!!!!!

    See how fish react and change color, presentation, accordingly.
    I’ve caught crappie on minnows, red worms, night crawlers, bee moths, and plain ole jigs.

    Livescope just saves me time.

    Up to me after that. Gotta fish where fish are located.
    Fished lots of water in the pre- scope days and excuse was “guess they weren’t biting today”

    Now I have different excuses but at least I’m fishing where I know the fish are.

    Refreshing to see a young fellow trying to figure them out.
    Keep the research going and the post coming.
    Interesting read.
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    Skip love your point on rods and cones. I don't post much on what I have tied recently because my rods and cones have quit working all together. I still feel blessed that my eyes can see, albeit 256 shades of gray. I love this hobby and the friends I have made here at CDC, just can't keep up. Please keep the stuff coming.
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