Tying Ideas

[Nightprowler]

I just picked up this (new to me) Button Jig Mold. It looks similar to the Aspirin or Pill head but is made for tying. It comes like the pictures below or without any barb at all. Just a plain Button Head. It makes putting eyes on a breeze and I had to do paint up a few w/ quickie eyes. I might pick up some of the 3D to try. I also found a little history about this style. The head design of the Aspirin Head Jig was originally the brainchild of legendary Dale Hollow smallmouth angler Billy Westmoreland. The head is round, thin and mounted vertically on the hook shank. This creates an enticing wiggle as it falls, rises, or simply swims through the water.

Any suggestions of what to do with them from here.....

1/16 oz. X #4 Eagle Claw Hooks

 

[Radtexan]

Can you pour with a sickle Prowler ? Id be interested in some for my plastics....

 

[toadfrog]

Pin your mold for 3D eyes, do them in buck tail fire tiger pattern, hang them on a beetle spin . Yep there I go with that beetle spin stuff again . Love me some beetle spins.

 

[AtticaFish]

With the majority of the head off-set below the hook shank..... i would be building up a body on the bottom side. I have done some chenille belly jigs that could make a sweet wide profile (shad) bait with that style head.

Only compromise (sp?) might be that with more material under the shank, that may cancel out any extra wiggle the head/weight positioned below the shank might give? Thats just a guess though.... i have learned i DNS about hydrodynamics in the past.

 

[JUNGLEJIM1]

I've had the mold for awhile now,loaned it to Grubfarmer because I've got a couple pillhead spinner molds that I can pour pillheads with a recessed eye so I quit using it. I was tying ducks with this head for awhile.The thing I didn't like was the weights were way off. The 1/32 actually weighs 1/20 and the 1/16 weighs about 1/10. Also didn't like pouring one at a time of a size. Still a good mold,though.Probably make a good belly spinner.

 

[Pup]

Google "Curb's Jigs".

 

[Nightprowler]

Yes to sickle, Pm me.

 

[Fatman]

Prowler

Nice jigs I like the orange head with gray craft fur!!! If you were going for smallies I'd way half orange/half brown = nice crayfish pattern