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Hi! I want to enter the saltwater vertical jig marked and realize that I need to replace the huge, expensive 5/0-18/0 hook with a wire loop for assist hooks. I have no experience in wire bending whatsoever. I wonder what tools and skills I need to bend a stainless wire in a way that takes...

Howdy! :) in my never ending quest to make fellow european anglers develop a taste for hair jigs, I now tried to sink an action cam in the shallows and take some pictures. Didn´t even stabilize it, it just seemed worth a shot with the sun, the clear water and all those cute little gobies in it...

Hi! Sorry, this might be a no-brainer to you guys but I´ve never made or used rubber skirts. I now want to since I feel I have to cover a flexibel connection of a 3/0-4/0 open eye seawash hook and the eye of a 1/2 to 3 oz trailer ball. I find it troublesome to tie on the yet open hookeye and...

Hi! I`m very fond of that hard-as-nails-stuff, but having a real hard time getting it at a reasonable price. Speaking of 4-7€ (7-10$) for a 13ml flacon, at up to 4 weeks of shipping notice. Is there any chance somebody can tell me an alternative or a source for a value/refill pack that is...

Hi, Andy Lane´s flesh fly variant reminded me of the craze we had over here a few years ago about a salmon-flesh-coloured spey shrimp fly. So I loooked up some advice on mixing salmon tones, and after a couple of tries(football heads) I came pretty close(SU heads). As far as I remmber, it was...

Hi, I´ve been texting with some light rock fishing guys who emphasize "D"-shaped Jazz jigheads http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/pagos/item/10000292/ They said they had a nice darting action. Looking at them, they remind me more of a grave digger. I wonder if they swim and dart well without...

Hi, I´m frequentliy wasting far too much time on cutting of Jig collars. Hate to tie on them, hardly ever need them at all. Is there an easy way to modify the mold, s.a. putting in a spacer or something? Edit: Sorry, should have posted in "lead pouring"

Hi, I like a mix of hare wool, fluorescent craft fur and sparse flash for most of my jigs. Problem was that one filling of my small coffee mill only got me material for 1-3 jigs. I needed to scale up for my weekly streamer brush production. I often heard of blenders, but then again they were...

Hi, I bought myself a disco-ball motor and a foam wheel to make a bigger version of what fly tyers use to hang their epoxied streamers to cure. Problem is I could only get relatively soft foam. The jigs, expecially the heavyer ones, dangle about and spoil the wet coating. Any ideas for a...

Hi! these 2-3oz badboys are on their way to norway now, for field testing on chicken halibut, specimen cod and pollock. Haven´t got proper H-type molds yet so I used the cheap pirated stuff they sell over here for the prototypes. Still good enough to gather some dremel-experience in order to...

Hi, as some of you know I´m starting a jig crafting business and my core products will be boolie patterns. This stuff is absolutely new over here in Europe, and I expect legal action from larger companies who will steal the idea and have it patented for themselves just to shut me down and keep...

Hi! I want to build some very large boolies for some guys traveling to norway. Large pollock, coalies, massive cod, halibut and the like. Halibut plastic jigs sell at 12-25€ each b.t.w... Got the mold, the hooks, even the props, but brass beads that pass over an 8/0-12/0 VMC barbarian is...

Hi! I just got started on my fisrt major commercial melting, and now that thing only drips. Just emptied it, there`s a lot of crap down there, thought that would float up?! do you guys have any idea how that had happend and how I can clean it? Its a Lee IV 220V I know nothing about maintaining...

Hi! I find most of my jigs too big and heavy to be stored in my fly boxes but too small and fuzzy for the tackle box. How do you guys store them away?

Hi! through my local fly fishing shop, I have just come across a slovakian hook manufacturer that specialises in barbless fly hooks. http://dohiku.eu/dohiku-hds-streamers-hooks,73.html I got a pack of #6 black nickel streamer hooks and find them very appealing. I also know the shop owner long...

Hi, I got tired of using 1mm Mono as a belly-spinner extention for large fuzzy jigs and finally ordered some pony and sea horse molds. Here are the first two ones, 1/4t and 3/8th on 2/0 Matzuo sickle and 3/0 Gamakatsu Jig22. Tried to get somewhat close to A.F.`s motoroil mix but couldn´t...

Hi, this is my first tie that I put on e-bay in order to find out how people will respond to it. 1/8th shads with 2/0 Matzuo sickles. Its far from perfect but I think I can get away with it. At the same time, after all that testing and experimenting, I realised its the first time I made a...

Hi! I´ve been out fishing yesterday, and the sandeel boolie, in a larger 2/0 - 3/8th, again outfished everything else in my arsenal, this time cod. Both trolling and casting worked well, the perfect kayak lure! Had great fun, with the lightest tackle I´ve ever used for this kind of fishing...

Hi everybody, As some of you know I´m a bit behind with Jiggin` materials over here in Germany. I´ve just ordered 2 do-It molds on e-bay. Now I would like to place a bulk order of hooks, but since I have no experience with do-its and the shippping is long and costly, I´d like to ask for a piece...

Hi everybody! I once took a fly fishing seminar/guided trip with Bernd Ziesche with first cast fly fishing school. Bernd is the single most successfull guy I know when it is about catching large, silvery sea run brown trout on a fly. In a nutshell, he breaks it down to this: -a very, very fast...