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So while son was here on vacation he looked over my lure manufacturing line. He noticed I used nail polish as finish on some of my stuff. The company he works for makes all kinds of women's beauty products. He sent me a care package of some nail polish. It was really interesting watching how...

Son managed a few days here in Ohio. Weather pattern was extremely tuff. Most storms turned out to be just predictions but it made planning really hard. Its awful tough for him to get away from Omaha Nebraska and he tried to plan way ahead but weather made for a typical Ohio week. Anyway we...

Your friend call you and says the walleye bite is ON. Tells you the wallies are feeding heavily on young of the year perch. He has confirmed this by examining the stomach contents of his catch. He invites you to go along tomorrow. Be honest now. Would you be more likely to pack some lures like...

Last two days been having trouble getting on Photobucket.com to upload some pix. Tried different browsers but still same thing just will not load completely. Just kinda hangs there in cyber space somewhere. All other sites I visit are acting normally. Anyone else having problems with it ?

First of all this is not my idea. I stole it from another site from another blade bait fanatic. He was using the ultra minnow mold with a blade bait blank. Lots of flash to trim but like he said for just a few no big deal. I am thinking of re-doing mold for faster production though. Here is a...

OK have received the six NO-NAMES I ordered. In the pic one is in the package. The top one is the original NO-NAME. The next one down is tied cream-colored wool, red head and painted front. Next one is a translucent flash material with silver highlights and painted front Bottom one is satin...

Hope you younger fellas ain't looking forward to retirement. It is a lot tougher than you may think. Every morning get up , go fishing , come back put fish on ice , shower go to bed. Get up clean fish , go fishing , come back put fish on ice . shower go to bed. Get up clean fish etc etc etc...

These jigs by Jiggerjohn have been on my backburner for awhile. Seen somebody post that they were having a low hook up to bite ratio. Tied one more or less conventionally then tied one on a long shank jig hook. Gives a little more room for error. As I quickly found out making sure that the...

My son is being sent to McCalla , Alabama for a few days to solve some conveyor belt problems for his company. While there he hopes to wet a few jigs. Anyone know of a lake in that vicinity or river. That might enable for him to catch a few during his off hours. Also some jig color you all...

Still playing with the satin threads. Using a pointed pick ( bodkin ) instead of fingernail to separate threads of cloth. Then cut shiniest fibers with scissors to length for what size jighead I am tying. Tie flash on first then satin threads. Then use strands of flash and wrap like chenille...

Looking at Junglejims satin tails he posted. Figured I would try with a little twist. In that I would use V-cut on the duck flank feather to expose the satin a little more. Don't know if it is an improvement or not just whittling some of this sub artic temps away. Took a single pic to show a...

Read on here where Jigging john was using batting wool for tying the wool jig. Had to look up batting on web as I had no idea what it was. anyway found a pile of it for less than14.00 so I figured I would try it. As John stated it was easier to form the " shad " figure to start with . Anyway...

Well boys I finally bit the bullet and out of dire necessity I have found several uses for my sump pump room. I had the following needs a. a warmer place to tie as my main tying place is unheated. Ohio's cold arse winters was taking too much out of me b. a place that would not dip below...

If some of you are not using this lure. Get some of them. They work all year around but I really like them using thru ice. They will catch fish just as they are. But I like to make a few adjustments to them. First I use a pair of wire cutters and cut off the front and rear hooks. Every fish I...

Since we have a lot of grits eaters ( southern guys ) that thinks that anybody that would fish on ice frozen lake is nuts. You are exactly right all of us icefishermen are nuts. Lake Erie is probably one of the most productive lakes one could ever fish. If you watch the video all the way...

These guys have been keeping me busy lately also. Trying to pin them down so will have jump on them ice fishing. Have found out over the years location during the coldest open water fishing. Kinda going to be a giveaway where they are going to be at first ice. Goes for all species not just...

The above were tied with Stump's mylar style. The orangish one I added a little flash in the tail The orange ones are 1/8 oz the other two colors are 1/16 oz. All the heads were cast in my mold mod to accept the 3d eyes. Posted this video of these in underwater. Mylar does not move much but...

Elected to get a concealed carry permit. The arm I elected to go with was the Ruger LCR 357. Its a favorite of the CC people. Its a great gun but its factory front sight is suited only for broad daylight shooting. Lots of users just paint front sight or use fingernail polish. Having tried...

Never felt like I needed one but Sunday am going to go get one. Incident last year changed my mind. Was out and was going to stay all night. But fish were anything but co-operative and then the weather decided to make things just a tad more miserable. Figured well I know what everything is...

Been busy last couple weeks with building some baitcaster rods and redoing one that Nick Ready built for me First up is the redo on the Nick Ready rod. The rod was broken at about 8 inches from the tip. It was enclosed in a rod wrapper and was in a towed boat. When I got home discovered it had...