Molay1292

If you have a clear shot at them, drill them out and go one size over on the rivets, put sealer on and around the rivets, should work well.

Been a while since I got mine, looks like there are a few at the auction site for a very reasonable price.

6 bearings in the handle, how so?

The last place I purchased off the shelf was at Cabelas.

9 out of 10 bass agree this post is silly

Kind of a tough read but has some very interesting information. Worth while read.

Not sure you will find it on the internet, may have to buy the book. What Fish See: Understanding optics and color shifts for designing lures and flies. Pg. 160 Colin J. Kageyama, O.D., F.C.O.V.D.

"The importance of vision for bass was examined in a series of experiments where bass were made artificially blind through the use of opaque eye shields. blind bass in the tanks had little difficulty eating, establishing territory, or fighting off other bass. Blind bass were able to locate and eat minnows, crawfish, shrimp, and worms in a matter of seconds after they were dropped into tanks. Researchers noted that the blind bass appeared to become more aggressive. These bass were able to identify almost immediately which bass in the tank were larger or smaller than themselves. For these bass, a well adapted system of smell and sense of vibration appeared to compensate for a lack of vision."

IMHO, you're worrying about nothing. If anything put a small amount of grease on the gears and press on.

Thanks guys, I appreciate it, I tried to come up with a couple of unique colors that I thought would still be effective.

Spending Christmas Eve working on some swimbaits.

There has been a lot of testing done to determine what fish are capable of seeing. To do this as you suggested they studied the anatomy of the fishes eye. They are able to look at the rods and cones and how they react to light. They also were able to isolate the chemicals in eyes that allow them to determine what a fish can see. " Several key types of light-reactive chemicals have been isolated in the eyes of different animals and fish. Some chemicals react to small amounts of light and recharge slowly. These types of chemicals are important for night vision. Other chemicals are sensitive to certain types of light, requiring larger amounts of light, and recharges quickly. These chemicals are important for color vision. Some chemicals allow the animal to see red objects, while others react to blues, greens, or yellows. Without getting overly technical, the types of chemicals found in an animal's eyes give scientist a good idea of what the animal can see. If the majority of chemicals in an animal's eye are of a type that reacts to blue light, then it can be assumed that the animal is able to see objects that are blue. If the majority of chemicals in a n animal's eyes are reactive to red light, then that animal probably is best able to see objects that are red." If anyone would like the reference for the quoted material please PM me and I will be happy to share the information. There has been a lot of testing done, most scientist agree that Bass have a very acute sense of color vision. Many scientist believe that bass may be able to even see into the UV spectrum of color, this would explain some of the newer baits. Just wanted to share a piece of information that I found while studying this very interesting subject.

Good thread and what you have shared is interesting. This conversation almost always creates a bit of controversy. Keep in mind that there are always exceptions to the rule. For example fluorescent colors will show their color when struck by any wave length of equal or shorter value. Fluorescent colors can also appear as two to three times as bright as the available light because they can convert invisible light (ultraviolet light) to a visible light. I like your thoughts, keep sharing, maybe through the conversation we will all learn something.

Many Bass Pro reels are actually engineered, manufactured and exported by a company named Dawon Engineering. They are a South Korean Company as well as Doyo. http://www.dawonengco.com/eng/html/company_1.php

Sure they do, they're telling you every time you catch one. The question is are you listening.

Very hard to say why one color out produces the other. In my experience it typically has to do with visibility, the ablility of the fish to see one bait from a greater distance or with better clarity. Color is the reflection of light and water conditions like you mentioned and low light conditions sometimes make it impossible for light to reach an object so it can reflect light and show it's color, when this occurs objects present themselves as a gray scale color. If I had to venture a guess why one bait out produced the other it would be that the gray scale colors that the red and black bait was producing were more visible possibly having more contrast or more closely matched whatever the natural forage was. Your post made me think about something interesting, everything we know about this world is through human senses.

I guess we are on different wave lengths, I understand what anthropomorphism is, but I don't believe the statement quoted above falls into that category. The statement above is what I was in reference to.

So prove him wrong using science, otherwise your argument is as much theory as you claim his to be.

There are a lot of different options dependent upon how involved you want to become. You can pour your own jigs and that requires some equipment, molds, and materials, or you can purchase the heads already poured and add your weed guards, powder paint and skirting. You need to make some decisions up front about the amount of money you want to spend to pursue this interest, the hobby is not terribly expensive but it like all other hobbies certainly has some cost associated with it. Take some time to think about it and provide a little more information, it will certainly help with being able to provide you a detailed answer to your question.

In my opinion, if you are paying retail price for your components, hooks, keeper, and lead then you cannot reasonably expect to make a profit on those. Your profit will be based on your expense to buy the mold and other equipment and then the time you have invested, which you almost never recover in my experience with tackle making. I purchase the components, hooks and keeper and have 50 poured for 6 dollars, sometimes he trades me out for lunch.

As Smalljaw said it is the Do-It Bat Wing mold. It is a little hard to pour because of the small size of the jigs. Requires very clean/soft lead, you can see on several of the heads where the collar did not form completely. The collar does not effect the performance but does add additional support for the wire keeper.

Yes, it is a mold I purchased over the Thanksgiving Holiday.

Took advantage of some better weather and worked on some crappie jigs for a friend of mine.

Thanks guys, I appreciate the compliments.

A few colors of creature baits I shot for a friend over the Holiday.