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[megastrike]

Does anyone make wtheir own weedguards? What do you use, how do you do it? Thanks!

-Mega

[smalljaw67]

It depends on the bait. I make a few different finesse jigs, most of them I use an FG-12 fiber weedguard which has a base diameter of 5/64" and I buy those. If the finesse jig is going to be used on gravel or rock exclusivley then I will make a single wire weedguard using braided leader wire. I have also made my own fiber guards using heavy flourocarbon line but the normal fiberguards aren't expensive and the time it takes to make weedguard bundle myself isn't worth it and for what I pay for a spool of heavey flouro and how many weedguards I get out of it, it just makes sense to buy them.

[cadman]

I agree with Smalljaw thet are too cheap in cost to bundle them. Now I have looked into fiberguards from push broom makes. Believe it or not they use the same type of stuff for their push broom as we use for our jigs. I've contacted some broom manufacturers and they were unwilling to give me any sources for their plastic bundled bristles. But I would believe they would be dirt cheap in bulk quantities.

[Jig Man]

I make my own for 1/8 oz jigs and tube inserts.  I use 90# sevelon or surflon.  I get it in 30' rolls from Cablea's or Bass Pro.

It is the one shown in this pic.