Boolie Band Wagon

Hope to put these in front of some walleye in the next few weeks. With the cooler water temps, they will be coming up to shore after dark in a local reservoir as well as L.Erie to feed. Watched alot of them follow tailspin jigs last year but could not get them to commit.

Tied them on some teardrop heads - 1/16 & 1/8. The bottom left one i tried to follow the advice of JJ on the tie..... very sparsely tied chart. fuzzy fiber and a few strands of gold flash out the back. Upper left is craft fur. Ones on the right i used a staple to create a bait holder barb behind the prop. Plan to either use a large piece of nightcrawler or a twister tail plastic off the end.

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I need to see a fish caught with one of these things before I go buying anything else,lol.

Do those propellers really spin that much? Do you slide them on after the head is molded and then put a bead on and tie thread on the keep the whole works in place? They look cool and I know a lot of walleye anglers really like the whistler jigs and these remind me of them and I just often wondered how you use them. They do look great though, I have to admit that.

Looking good. I like the ones you fixed for plastics
I have had the chance to use my tied Boolie jigs two times and caught fish both times. The blades turn very well while being worked under a float and while shooting docks. As the jig comes to the top you and see the blade spinning, gives a flash to the jig. Have to be careful while tying them to leave space for the spinner to work,.

Those look great!!! I know you guys are getting the propellers from Waspi but for size say worths propellers (yeah I know you gotta buy a 1000) would you use a 0 or a 1??? Here's the page from Worth showing the sizes and pricing. Polished brass, nickle and gold. What size would you guys use.
http://lurecomponents.worthco.com/s....com/files/catalog-pages/WorthOEM_2012 82.pdf

nice work Russ!

Some of Ron Don's plastics on the one to the right will work. Nice ties Attica.

Smalljaw - Had tried making a few of these maybe a year or 2 ago and they were a flop - props did not spin for me at all. I had left the gap between the prop and head too small. These i made a much bigger gap. Will let you know how they work.

Fatman - The ones i have are from Jann's. They are sizes #1 & #2. Just got some new ones that are gold and much smaller.

Thanks for the comments all.

Thanks!!

Cool tyes - like to see how they work

Attica, those look GREAT ! Love the longer,thin one ya tied!! I have also used the staple concept for holding plastics & have had good success on Pymatuning with a section of Charlie Brewer's 3" minnow tail as a trailer. Also put a real minnow behind a sparsely tied Boolie for big crappie during spring & fall. Lately, around here, have been taking an orange Boolie (thin "redfish" SF blend + a pinch of fox squirrel on the belly) on a thinned down HU head from Hawn jigs, tipped with a single kernal of corn for huge carp in a small local lake -nailed 4 the other morning in 2 hrs just after daybreak, and previous to that had one that fought me for 2+ hours on 5# test mono (got tired of the fight ,but wanted my jig back,so eventually beat him!). But look around while trying for shoreline Lake Erie walleye & steelhead -that other guy you see tossing a Boolie might be me!!

Okay I'd rather not pay the cost of the waspi's so you guys list Barlows, Janns etc. with blade sizes. Janns has the regular ones in small, medium and large. Looking at the ones here on the site I'm thinking the mediums. Then they have the dumbbell propellor blades and I'm thinking size 1 in those, plus they carry those in gold.

OK you guys got me trying these. so was curious if anyone had tried Hagen's 28.67 1000 is this to much. And does anybody want to buy a 1000 or more and them up ??

Been waiting to see some results of all these new ties before I make a sound decision as to purchase blades or not. Been seeing allot of new ties but haven't seen to many fish yet .... So it is still on hold for me, but that would be the way to buy if you can get enough interested in tying them

Doc is alive and doing well...

Chill - if what I asked about the blades being okay as far as size hagens is high. I'm hoping the Worths will do because they have nickle, polished brass and gold but I haven't heard from them yet on the cost of the gold ones, and depending on the size their price per 1000 will kick the heck out of everyone else, from what I've seen so far.

Those are extremely cool. :t-up: