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Hi, I want to pour my own cheburashka jig heads and also have an idea around larger resin heads that both utilize wire clips. Can anyone recommend a supplier who is happy with custom work in the 1000-5000pcs. range? I wouldn´t mind significantly higher rates. Alternatively, any idea to...

Reading about the herring underspin mold I thought I order some large connector links with it for use in my larger molds. Tried the H-type and Banana today -  H type worked fine, the banana head however pushed into the blade since it was not balanced. The BTH-8-L mold is surprisingly easy to...

Hi, I have found the shad bait lure to be a fantastic producer for baltic cod. It has just about the right size for small boat and watercraft fishing, exactly my niche. :icon14: What bothers me though is the ridiculously small #0 eye on the back. It´s fine for cod and perch, but by no means...

Hi, I have noticed that the -rather expensive - white pearl Pro Tec powder paint I use as a base color is far more chip resistant than my clear coat mixtures. I assume that has something to do with it being epoxy based? Most of my customers here consider a jig as something that is supposed to...

little over 25", fish of the year so far :cool: Migrating browns are notorious tailbiters so I fixed myself some inline ultra minnows with a size 4 octopus sickle loop. Spectacular fight on light tackle.

Not sure if this fits here... I wrote that I took that guided fly fishing trip to samsöe the other day. The guide is a fly fanantic, obsessed with large searun brown trout or seatrout as we call them in europe. Last time I checked, he was using semi-sinking lines and a very fast retrieve where...

Took a little time out and went for a 1 week guided fly fishing trip to the danish island of Samsö. While I haven´t been fly fishing at all lately, Bernd from First Cast is a hard core fly angler, 8 hour trips casting into onshore wind etc. what ever it takes to get that herring-fed seatrout...

I used to use 95% hard tin alloy for my casting spoons, but recently I got a decent offer for the 99% shiny-heini-real deal. Looks better, flows better and is easier to bend to custom s-shape. couple of sömmet (danish inline design) knockoffs for my private fishing and some minnow spoons...

Hi, I just bought my first weed guard mold, the Do-It Football weedless, together with matching 1/8" teflon base hole pins and 1/8" Y-fiber weedguards. I have no experience with weedguards whatsoever. In my first trials, I heat the naked head, then put in the pin, then dip, blow off remaining...

I always liked the idea of a school of baitfish being a far more natural presentation in open water than a single one. Trying to cast an umbrella rig with spin tackle however made me forget about the idea very quickly. Even with light hairjigs instead of plastics I found it a terrible thing to...

Thumbnail sized small chatterbaits have earned themselves quite a reputation over here as stable producers of specimen perch. Since they retail at a healthy 10€ in specialized shops I was looking for a more expendable alternative and finally found a shop in the UK where I sampled the entire size...

Ever since I read this article on GFF, I was trying to get my hands on a portion of seal fur. Its been almost ten years now... Came across a comercial tyer recently who uses it, looked it up on ebay again and Bam! got a whole hide for 80€ :cool: Was a bit disapointed about the short hair at...

Inspired by this so called "kabura" snapper jig, I started thinking about a universal tube platform for a large hairbait that can be combined with a variety of leadball heads. This one is a 3 oz earball mold that has been modified to hold a large pin and flatened to accept large stick on eyes...

I came across a slip jig mold the other day. My first idea was to make a hairy Texas Rig weight, in order to get my plastic fishing fellow Germans hooked on hair jigs. I later found that these Jigs are used mainly to punch through heavy cover, will keep that in mind. After a couple of casts...

Hi there, I love to tie with wapsi palmer chenille but I´m sick and tired of paying retail prices up to €3.90 (4.30$) a pack. If I can get the color and amount I need, that is. I sometimes have to order at different shops to get my stuff together. Their homepage says they don´t sell to...

Caught some nice fish with flutter jigs behind the shop over the last days. the two best ones in the 20"+ range got away but I managed to land and even film a couple around legal size. Last week, they wanted "horizontal jigging" while a normal retrieve prooved fruitless. Got one on film with my...

After a fruitless morning of trolling wobbler flies anlong the bank of the Kiel Canal, I grabbed some lunch and returned with inline-casting jigs. Appearently the better choice for today: 21", 3,5lbs The glow pink pp doesn´t look much like a match, but the blue scale holo tape came pretty...

As of monday, I am the proud owner of two behm spoons, together with a couple of Bachteufel ("creek devils"): This spoon was designed by Alexander Behm. Behm was the kind of guy who heard of the Titanic desaster, committed himself to engineer an iceberg-warning device and came up with the...

Inspired by the buzz bomb, I got myself some jigging spoon molds the other day. First tests with the new tins were promising. Especially the flutter jig caught my attention. Under tank-testing, I noticed it would perform a nice -how should I describe it - spin-stall. Meaning it spins and...

These things are awesome! I bought some a couple of years ago out of curiosity but never used them because they look awkward. Stupid, I know. Then I had a friend over in the shop who noticed them and went like "wow, you got some of those?!" Next thing was "try them out? no way, gotta make...