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    go go minnow

    bear with me here ya'll because I don't usually get excited about soft plastic baits, but there are times when a curly tail grub on a jighead flat out works. I have tried a lot of them for crappies etc. but these last couple days I have been trying the fle fly go go minnow in the small size...
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    size 10 crystal chenille

    recently while getting some gray pearl chenille from CAT I ordered a few packs of the size 10 crystal chenille just to try for making crappie jigs. First off, I don't know if it catches fish any better but some of these colors are gorgeous, I got the junebug, silver, dirty chicken and blood...
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    emerald shiner chenille

    Am wanting to try some new age emerald shiner chenille but in the pics that I can find it looks a whole lot like gray pearl which I already have. My question is this, Is crazy anglers gray pearl the same as grandpa bobs emerald shiner? If it is then I don't need to order any. I do like the gray...
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    metalic gold glitter head

    well ya'll know I ain't worth a hoot posting pics but I gotta tell you'uns about a gold sparkle painted jighead. I have been trying to come up with a gold paint that I liked and have tried plenty of powder paints including golden chub, and also adding gold glitter to clear vinyl, but nothing...
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    matzuo aberdeen jighooks non sickle

    I have a jig project where the matzuo regular round bend jighook in size 4 would be perfect, the only problem is that I can only find them in bronze. Do any of you know where I can find the size 4 in black chrome? I don't have access to shorty's. redear
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    Dirty chicken chenille

    a couple weeks ago I odered some of crazy anglers crystal Dirty chicken chenille, because of the good reports I have read. Today I was taking my bag of chenille from the house to the shop out back where I tie jigs, when I got outside and the sunlight hit that chenille it was like whoa!! the pink...
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    just odered jacobs 1/24 and 1/16 roundhead molds

    hey guys I just ordered 2 jighead molds from jacobs, a 10 cavity 1/16 no collar and a 1/24 roundhead in collars and no collars. I needed some round head molds for tying that produced a smoother finish, such as a cnc cut mold produces. I know I could have made them in a single pour mold, but for...
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    tipping jigs

    just want to make a suggestion to those of you that at times would like to add something to their jigs for added attraction, for years me and some friends always used a small minnow or 1/2 a redworm etc. on the hook depending on weather we were trying for crappies or gills etc. but now we have...
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    mustad 32889 br 2x lite wire jighooks

    just recieved a box of these hooks yesterday and after looking them over I must say I'm impressed! they are really sharp unlike some of the other mustads Iv'e tried, and the wire is extra lite so they should do real well around wood and lilly pads etc. I give mustad an A+ on these hooks, need...
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    mustad 32889 2x fine wire jighook

    there has been some talk about this jighook comming back into production, just wondering if anyone here has gotten hold of any, and if so where do you get them from, also how are they sharpness and quality wise? do tell.
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    Goldie streamer

    anyone here ever tie a goldie streamer made popular by the late Dick Empie? It is made with a mylar flat braid that is called bills bodi braid, and usually has a brass bead up front and fire orange thread for a collar just behind the bead. I bought some of this mylar and have started tying a few...
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    Fatman, I miss ya bro

    Doug, just wanted to say how much I have missed reading your posts!!
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    did a little pouring

    since I was having problems with my lead plugging up my lee pot, I bought a palmer hot pot 2 and used the brownells powdered flux on the lead, also used a small ladle to keep skimming the slag off. used one of the home made molds and poured with the ladle, it was a little slow but the end...
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    sickles win another convert

    about a week ago I was talking to the owner of the sporting goods store where I spend some time, and he said he was going white perch fishing the next day. he was going to use his favorite twin tail plastic grub of about 1 1/2" along with some 1/32 jigheads off the rack with regular size 6...
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    great evening

    went to a club pond this evening with a freind who is a member and we got into some fish, caught a bunch of fliers and also a few crappies, the fliers must have been spawning as they were really hitting. we used 1/32 hair jigs in black and yellow with red thread and unpainted head, these were...
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    vmc 9147's

    just recieved about a week ago some black chrome vmc 9147's, and was surprised to see that they had the old style point and barb which are better for my pinky jigs to help hold the minnow on the hook. and then I had some bronze 9147's also and when I looked at them they had the premium needle...
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    finally got order

    after almost a month waiting for my order from grandpa bobs with no answer from two emails I got him on the phone and he said it went out yesterday, I did get the order a few days later and the kiptails looked good, the sickles were in there except for a couple hundred size 2's I told him to...
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    sickle hook broke at 90

    poured a few redman heads on size 4 black chrome sickles and tied one up after paint had cured, the next day I decided to cut the kiptail off the jig and do a different color scheme. had the jig in the vice and was cutting the hair off with the razor blade when the head started turning on the...
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    wool satin and flash

    went out to the shop tonite and tied one up after getting home from work. pink head on a 1/32, size 4 sickle, red thread, green chart. wool, green satin, green and blue flashy fabric mostly green, and some gold flashy fabric as well as a little silver.
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    todays jig

    tied one up this evening with a little peice of unwashed wool.
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