Recent content by Hawnjigs

JamesD, what I meant was do you have to glue the soft plastic(?) collars onto the hook shank?

Good review comparing Victory sickles to the Eagle Claw version. 31" walleye is exceptional, where you at Bill ?

Congratulations ! God loves you, or maybe forgave your sins. Z-man bait ? The opening night color Slim SwimZ has become my tested & proven choice for daylight wallys.

A final comment on the Victory 10360 - still catching fish but the constant need to resharpen point folds even on a light hard bottom tick is annoying.

Dunno why but the once superb VMC 9147 BN became prone to bend outs years ago so I quit buying them. Mr. HU, are your defective hooks bending out or breaking ? I regularly melt off and re-pour bad castings and haven't had a problem with hook quality degradation.

Very innovative materials. Are the spiky collars glued on?

Tried fitting the 10360 1/0 into a Sparkie mold which has a center post in the hook eye socket and like JungleJim1's experience the hook eyes snapped in half from the post insert pressure into the slightly undersize hook eyes. As posted tho hooks performance in use was acceptable if not...

So Jim, are you using more ties than plastics nowadays ?

That is a chunk white bass fer shur - caught recently? Are those hair jigs for walleye? Resurgence going on.

Got tired of fumbling with someone else's method so hit another spot I know well with my current small wally fave 3" Elaztech opening night Slim SwimZ. 2 days total 6 wallys including 4 nice ones around 20" which is exceptional for this continually meathead hammered EZ access spot. Trick was...

Purty, but does them ketch fish ?

Do the hatchet heads perform differently from other styles?

What #test line you using & what weight jigs? Got any pics of your shad dart ties ?

Like the preformed coil keepers that attach to hook eyes, I'd bet a similar design with a wire spike bait holder at the end instead of a coil could be worthy of mass distribution.

The wire keeper is a very functional idea but out here in the midwest the attitude would be if it ain't broke don't fix it, meaning generations of anglers have been using barb collar heads to catch fish successfully so why change? Altho I no longer use barb collar heads observing those that do...