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I may contact him. I don't fish Mosquito as much as I should/as Arthur and Kahle lake, so any advice would help.

Again, thank you for the advice CTom! I'll be ordering some here in a few days to have (hopefully) for my next perch outing!

Thank you CTom for the insight! Now as far as size and colors, what should I get? One guy I talked to said silver with ruby is a good color as well as "Pink Lady". I was thinking of getting 1/4-1/2...

It's hot out! I recently went up to Lake Erie for a few days and tried jigging for perch using an emerald shiner. The perch weren't nailing the shiners as they are suppose to, so I came to the...

Chaunc, ever have luck right under the causeway? I could tuck in near the the bridge pillars and, if I remember, the depth under the bridge is 15-19'. I only have a kayak so close areas will help put...

I currently have the Pfluger President and I think it was worth the price. Can't remember the size though. I would honestly go with a Diawa if you have the money for it, but for $50, the President...

I might back a MK II before I'll buy one. The o ring just need a little lubrication and it slides smoothly... Good thing for good tooling!

Ask and you shall receive!

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Sorry about the pictures being sideways... Apple is stupid!

Anyway, I modded the most a bit today by using a sharpened and polished...

I'll take a picture of them right now. Mind you, these baits were made with a manual milled mold, so they aren't perfect.

Now harken back to your doctoral thesis recall Plastic cuts Skin, Aluminum cuts Plastic, Steel cuts Aluminum, and Tungsten Carbide cuts everything else!


Today I had finished up my Jerry-rigged,...

Yet another question for lure making. I found out a new "term" and plastic that can be used to make lures and came up empty handed. It's called Col Pouring. My question is how it works and if it is...

I plan on using these for crappie, walleye, and Lake Erie perch. Hopefully they'll hold up to the abuse!

I have them finished and tested them out this morning just to see if I added enough marabou. They look excellent. I'll share a photo when I can Skeet!

Who else spent their Saturday? Couldn't get out to the lake so instead, I whipped up a couple VMC Marabou jigs.
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I finally started on the mold using MasterCam (in a nutshell, made me want to hang myself. Lmao) but it is a work in progress. Tuesday I'll hop back on it and hopefully my aluminum stock...

Awesome catch! Good to see another 'Yaker angler!

i found an image that I can make a negative with and will work, but it needs some fixing. I'm turning into a 6 cavity with 2 cavities being the same size. 2.5" - 2.0" - 1.75" or 1.5".

I'm at it once again... I'm making another mold from a CNC at my school shop, but I'm in need of help.

In order to make the program flawless, I'm asking anyone that has a Crappie Carrot mold if...

Yes, it is fiberglass.

I honestly have no idea. It was my father's old rod and from age, the name just scraped off. I can tell it's a cheap $40-60 rod due to the construction of it.

Nice fish! If I make some flies I'll post them up.

Thank you for the info Jackie! I'd look into it more if I wasn't in a machining class. I practically get big slabs of aluminum for $0! Unless I happen to break an endmill, I have nothing charged...

It's alright! 1/80-1/100 oz. is perfect for light spinning gear, if not, I'll add some weight to the hook shank.

And do you have a link on how to tie those bugs you have posted above? I'm kind of...

Thanks for the information, but I think 1/8 oz is about as big as I'll ever go, and I can get beads that size at my local fly shop.

If if I run into weight problems, I'll try the copper/lead...

Nice fish jcozzz! I'll give the flies a try once warm weather rolls around. I'm still working on the Crappie Carrot mold. My machining instructor is helping me use Master Cam to make the mold with a...

I never even thought of doing something like that! Very nice flies! The problem about flies is I'm more leaning to vertically jigging or retrieving with a spinning reel, but I guess I could try fly...

@Skeetbum,

thank you you for the help. I've heard of Plaster if Paris, but the one factor that is left out is that I don't have the physical bait on me. I could make a clay model, bake it, then...

Since I'm a bit of a crafty and cheap person, I decided to make an injection mold of a oncoming popular bait, the mustache worm.

For those not familiar with the mustache worm, it's a 1-1.5"...

Saved onto my phone. Thank you very much Shipahoy! I'll have to give that a try in the summer!

This is might be a stupid question but the pole I have has one stripper eye and the rest snakes. Could I use the snake eyes instead or would those have to be stripped off and converted? Most of the...