Thread: Do-it Molds horse head jigs hook size

I'll be looking forward to the answers, as I ordered the Do-It mold to pour
horse heads with larger hooks on the smaller jig heads. Good luck with
your pours! Dave

Most Do-it molds allow you to go one hook size bigger in the mold. And yes you can pour a 2 in the 1/16th head. One thing to watch if your using sickles is to dry fit the hooks to make sure they fit in the eye socket. Sometimes you'll get a batch of hooks and some have a longer eyelet to bend length and they won't let the mold closed. I'm assuming when you say horsehead style you're talking about no collar heads.

Originally Posted by Fatman

Most Do-it molds allow you to go one hook size bigger in the mold. And yes you can pour a 2 in the 1/16th head. One thing to watch if your using sickles is to dry fit the hooks to make sure they fit in the eye socket. Sometimes you'll get a batch of hooks and some have a longer eyelet to bend length and they won't let the mold closed. I'm assuming when you say horsehead style you're talking about no collar heads.

Thank you, I have not decided yet if I am going non or collar head. I would like to go collar because I use a lot of plastic baits...but then it wouldn't be good for tying jigs. So I think I just made the decision

Thank you for the tips as I will be using sickle hooks!

Originally Posted by Miller

I have not decided yet if I am going non or collar head. I would like to go collar because I use a lot of plastic baits...but then it wouldn't be good for tying jigs.

I'd go without the collar and mod the mold a little to accept the wire keepers for the plastics. There's nothing to modding the mold for the wires. Should you decide to tie you can tie right over the wires without any problem and its way less bulky than tying on the collar.

Originally Posted by CTom

I'd go without the collar and mod the mold a little to accept the wire keepers for the plastics. There's nothing to modding the mold for the wires. Should you decide to tie you can tie right over the wires without any problem and its way less bulky than tying on the collar.

Never thought of that, great tip!!

1/16 will take a size 1 readily.

If you are going to pull that 1/16oz horse head through brush a #4 hook will come through the brush with less hang ups than the #2 or the #1. I make them with #4's for fishing with open hook and with #2 if i am making it with a fiber weed guard. The #4 will hook them very well. As a matter of fact i caught probably a dozen 14" crappie off my dock this spring on a float and fly setup. It was a weighted float and the fly was a true #10 bead head fly that weighted about 1/140oz. This was during the spawn and the water depth was about 4'. That same #10 fly also caught a 19" large mouth during this same time period.

The only one of the horsehead molds you won't be able to go to big is the 1/32 and 1/16th double sided mold. As it is you can only pour 1 side at a time.