Anyone enjoy pouring their own?

[megalomaniac]

Got a new finesse swimbait mold with soft plastic wire keeper. The concept behind this jighead is the weight is displaced forward and well below the hook eyelet. That center of gravity 'should' destabilize the paddletail body even further creating additional wobble and vibration compared to a normal jighead. Plus the coiled wire keeper will let you catch 3x the number of fish per soft plastic before the bait is destroyed.

I've poured my own jigs for 30 years. Just a fun hobby.

This particular mold is a but tedious getting the hook and wire keeper aligned for perfect closure of the mold, so I single poured each jig. Took about 2 hours to pour 75 jigheads. Will paint and add 3D eyes later this week

 

[redblood]

I need to. I go through a ton of jig heads. I buy them in bulk from a guy who pours them to my specifications

 

[megalomaniac]

I need to. I go through a ton of jig heads. I buy them in bulk from a guy who pours them to my specifications

Back when I exclusively crappie fished, my favorite jig was a 1/16oz aspirin head painted white with silver eyes, hand tied with chartreuse bucktail and tipped with a live small shiner. That thing was deadly in the dead of winter.

 

[rsimms]

Many years ago I enjoyed tying my own foxtail jigs for smallmouth. 1/8th oz. foxtail jigs (brown or purple) with a 101 Uncle Josh pork rind is the best smallmouth lure known to man.

 

[megalomaniac]

Got the heads painted and eyes glued on today after I serviced my outboard when the rain started this afternoon

Gold for reds and lighter colored bodies, moss green for darker bodies in stained water.