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It's been a long, cold winter here. Ice has been on the lakes since the end of December and it's still on. The weather forecast is finally starting to look up and I've been tying up a few to pass the time . Here's some that I did this past few days. Some float n fly jigs and some boolies, mainly...

Up to ten resin molds now, really getting into pouring it and through trial & errors I'm getting better. Thought I'd show some favorites so far. The resin is getting clearer. The one with the duck jigs has a 3-d look to it, probably my favorite.

I used Castin Craft clear casting resin to immortalize some of my favorite ties. I like how they turned out, one more addiction to feed. My brain is on overload now thinking of what to try next with this.

The first one's the spoon length is 3/4 " long and weigh 1/16. The rest are 1/8 oz. and spoon is 1" long with #8 red trebles.. I painted them awhile back, recently found them so added some eyes and took a shot at dressing up some trebles, not as easy as a jig. I'm new to fishing spoons, should I...

I haven't posted any ties for a little while so thought I'd show these. Still is my all time favorite jig to tie and use. In the past it's always been painted or nickel heads with the flash ducks, aka float n fly, so the gold heads are new for me but won't be the last one's. did ten of each of...

I found some of these spinners at the local bait shop in #1 and #3 blade sizes for 3 for $1.80. I used a 1/16 pillhead on a #2 blue Aberdeen to keep the bait straight with the added weight, just won't work with a jig hook. I kept the rig simple, bunny tail with bone pink krystal flash chenille...

I picked up a couple of Do It 2014 molds and one was this football swing jig mold. I poured some heads with the hook that it called for but the wide gap on those hooks would make tying difficult, especially attached to the football head and the flat eye. These were tied on a 30 degree bend jig...

I was wanting to do something a little different to tailgunners instead of just tying them in at the bend and came up with an idea using wacky head weed guards to get a little more extension in the tail. After pouring a few different style heads I thought it would be just as easy to tie the...

I camped out with my oldest daughter, RV style and fished all three days. It was the first time for me so with two big lakes and a couple ponds to try out was pretty busy trying to find fish. I caught plenty of fish but found a couple spots on the last day that held some redear's. Ended up...

She's been bugging me about a trip since school got out and we got some unseasonably cooler weather here so we took advantage of it and got out during the week, hate the weekend crowds. Temps in the low 80's so we set out for a trout/smallie expedition. Lucianna with a smallie and JigCraft hat...

Has anyone ever replaced their heating element before ? I believe that's the problem with my pot. It's the 10lb bottom pour, 120 volts. While heating the pot drips creating a hollow layer that remains solid on top while dripping below. Any suggestions to fixing this problem ? Could it be...

Something I haven't seen before in a hand tied spinnerbait. I attached the blade to the jig shaft with a folded clevis followed by a bead, then the bunny ties. Weights are 1/8 pillhead, 3/16 wacky head and 1/16 ballhead all with Gami jig hooks. Water tested them in pool and the blades spin...

While I was in California, the Boolies and these baits was about all I used, they worked really well. Tried something a little different with these. Before adding the Sally Hansen finish to these I used neon and black sharpies to paint the backs. Some ran down the thread creating vertical bars...

While visiting Sonny in California earlier this month I poured some of these and tied some Boolie style and caught crappie,redear,gills and bass with them. Left the tied one's there but brought home some of the heads to play with. The heads weigh about 1/20th oz. This one was tied on a #6 sickle...

Materials used are 1/16 walleye head on a #4 bronze sickle, chartreuse uni floss,natural white sculpin wool, fl.yellow and natural mallard flank,size 70 chartreuse ultra thread and chartreuse/white reptile rubber. STEP #1 Tie in the floss at the bend and return thread to head. Tie in white...

Stocking up for spring,still. 2nd day of spring and temp was 20 degrees when I got up this morning. Thought I might show a few of my recent ties.

These are 1/16 and 1/8 on #1 gamakatsu's.Tried a new skirt material called reptile rubber on some. Doctored the blades and added eyes. Used palmer chenille for the bodies on these.

After my second heart attack last month I cut back on the smoking and finally decided it's time to quit. I havn't had one since 7:00 last Wednesday night. It's been rough but so far so good. Trying to stay busy but it's hard to stay focused when it seems that all I think about is lighting one...

I bought some 1/8 and 1/16 oz jigging spoons and painted them up today. I want to add flat stick on eyes to them. Should I put them on top,bottom or both sides? 1/8 is an inch long and the 1/16 are 3/4 inch. I removed the trebles and want to go with a single hook. Any suggestions ?? I plan on...

I've been under the weather lately so havn't been putting any ties up lately. Doctors tell me that I had another heart attack,went in and had a couple stents put in a clogged artery.Told me to quit smoking and sent me home less than 24 hours later. With all the talk and threads about the float n...