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This is what I use. I bought it in a fly tying kit from gander mountain. I think I paid maybe 20 bucks for the kit 7-8 hrs ago. Other than the book that came with it this is the only thing I have left from the kit. I’ve used it to tie Steel head jigs, buck tail jigs, dress trebles hooks, and what ever else fishing and tying related. Is it top of the line? No it is not. For what I use it for a couple times a year it is fine. It did produce a one time order of about 30 buck tail jigs though .

I would be just looking for sales or clearance. Than you can get a variety to try with out breaking the bank. last year was the first year really using them and I’m a believer in them now. I just won a 2 pack of war eagle 3/8 black single gold Colorado’s off of eBay. About this time last year cabelas was blowing out booyah spinner baits in 1/4, 3/8, and 1/2spinner baits I think I bought 6 of 3/8 And 6 of 1/2 oz

The inline spinner bait looked cool and is a neat concept I think. I had a “ why didn’t I think of that “ moment when I saw the jolt spinner bait. It’s just a spinner bait with out a skirt and a kietech on it but, it looks good with the matching color plastic. If I get some free time and bored I may try and make some for personal use.

That’s preatty simple

I saw modifying the mold to make spinner baits on Facebook. How hard is that? Obviously you have to do some aluminum Milling ?

Actually, I do know that my home owners policy does cover the boat in case stolen or damaged I just didn’t know about the liability part. So basically I just go to a insurance Agency and say I’m looking to get liability insurance for my boat and I need xxxx amount. Once I get it do I need to bring proof to the tournament? How do other tournaments handle that.

So I’m going to try and participate in a couple local tournaments. These allow smaller boats to participate I just have to make a live well. also in the rules it states that I need liability insurance. Do I have to put liability insurance on the boat it’s self or will my home owners liability policy cover it? I’ve tried reaching out to the powers that be about it but, I have gotten zero answers. my wife is a under writer for one of biggest personal, commercial, and liability insurers in the state of Michigan and the country. She seems to think the home owners policy should cover it. She is however, not 100% as this does not come up much. anybody have some insight on this?

I finally pulled the trigger. Purchased the bigger poison tail mold PTJ-3-AFM from LPO that makes 1/2, 3/4, and 1 oz. Hopefully be here early next. I would think it would make a decent punching jig at the bigger sizes with its pointy face. They are the verticals line ties so I may buy the blades from TW that allow you to connect directly to the eye. I don’t plan on selling any so I should be ok. Also lucked in to a crap ton of skirts for 40 bucks off of face book. I’d say rough estimate of 15-20 tabs per colors and I think there were like 8-10 colors. Also bought some black with red fire tipped skirts from LPO. In my mind I have an idea for a good looking red chatter bait, I think Never really used swim jigs before but, should have enough now to not have to worry about losing any. Sucks when the nearest store that sells that stuff is basically an hour away. Main reason why I make what I can.

So far I’m trying to find the jerk bait that I like. I’d like to find it and buy them exclusively. So far I have rapala’s in husky jerks, xraps, and orginal. Bought a lot smithwick rouges Last year in different styles year. They worked alright I think they have a wide wobble and work better in the summer. however, by that time I’ve moved on to cranks. So far I like KVD deep diving jerk baits. Seem to be a decent happy medium between quality and price. Chrome/blue back was my most productive one. i want to try the mega bass and other higher end ones but, we have a lot of toothy critters swimming around in the north country

This is only my opinion but, I hate stren mono. I’ll use the flouro carbon for leaders though. The mono To me is just stiff and doesn't like to be tied. It’s the only mono that I had horrible wind knots and tangled in my spinning rods during my river days.

I usually go about 50-60 % backing of the cheapest mono I can find IE zebco, eagle claw, the stuff you can buy for $1.99 for 300 yards. Spinning rods I will go maybe 70-75% mono backing. On my mono bait-casters I use berkly big game. Beginning of the year if it’s the first year I’ve had the reel And using I’ll pull about half the spool off and than splice in new mono and fill it back up. like the spinning rod I use for wacky worms I may only put 30-40 yards of pp on it. So far it hasn’t burned me. All depends on The test strength and line dia on how much backing you need. I bought 300 yards of 30 lbs PP 2 summers ago and have spooled my 4th reel with it about a week ago.

Flo Green head with white and green/chartreuse skirt. Caught a lot of fatty before the water got abouve 50 degrees last year. Black and silver was also good. I was using mister twisters curly grubs for trailers. all this red talk has me wanting to make some red chatter baits

I copied your picture/chart for later. If you don’t mind. Very Informative

I usually leave them on. The only time I have rust issues Is if I don’t dry the lure out before putting it back in the tray. In my tin boat I have a cubby trey on my bench seat. A lot of times with jigs or spinner baits I’ll throw them in the cubby tray if I swap lures. If that doesn’t completely dry them out. when I get home I throw them along with hard baits on the bench in the garage and let them dry over night. the zman stuff I can’t account for as I have some but, don’t use it a whole lot

I wonder if this is gear from some of the Gander out doors stores that have closed. We have had at least 4 if not more close there doors in Michigan. Supposedly they only kept the stores that could sell RV’s out front

Well, price has to come in somewhere at the moment. I’m not doubting pure flouro is better at being invisible. I just put some segar red label on on m/l spinning reel. For that particular rod I just want the leader line to not stand out as much as main line braid. honestly This only my 3rd summer of using bait casters and I do back lash occasionally. I feel better about re-spooling flouro Coated line than the expensive good stuff.

Stren flouro coated line help put my PB bass in the boat last year. Along with a crap ton of other fish

This isn’t everything. I don’t have my walleye trolling rods or trout rods pictured. *****disclaimer **** some of the gear ratios may be a number or two off. I was to lazy to look on the reel left to right. 7ft falcon square bill/spinner bait series paired with my brand new Shimano 6:3:1 SLX. Next st.croix 7’4 bass-x heavy paired with quantum accurist 7:3:1. Dobyns colt 7 ft m/l spinning reel paired with a Okuma cemar C-30. 7ft carbon light combo with 8:3:1 carbon light reel. Black maxx combo ( first bait caster) reel is 6:4:1. 7 ft skeet Reese medium crank rod paired with a phlueger supreme 5:3:1. One of my oldest and favorite rods 7ish berkly tactix wacky rig rod paired with a quantum accurist pti-30 spinning reel. Gander mountain guide series 6ft9 mh spinning rod no reel. Berkly 7ft lightning shock mh bait caster no reel at the moment I might buy a silver max and use it for swim jigs. pretty much set at the moment. However, I would like another Ml / M finesse spinning set up. Just seems like the dobyns is to light and the berkly tactic is to heavy for certain applications.

Sounds like it’s at-least worth a shot for leader material. If I don’t like it I’m not out much. I’ll keep every one posted

I didn’t see the point in starting a new thread when this one was hear allready. Found it while researching before I bought the flourocote. Couldn’t find any 20lbs stren flouro so I started searching eBay and Picked up 20lbs 300 yards of kastking flouro kote for $9.50 free shipping off of eBay. I want it just for tying leaders onto my 30lbs braid rod. Worth a shot for under ten bucks. maybe I will try as main line. any one else since 2017 using it for main line?

I’m going to use my dobyns colt 7ft M/l spinning reel for Size 5/6 shad raps and flicker shad. I have a Okuma cemar-30 for a reel and im going to use 8lbs Seagar flouro. My skeet Reese 7ft m crank rod with phlueger supreme 5:3:1 should throw anything size 7 and bigger. 10 lbs pline flouro clear. It throws bandit 200’s with no problem

Oh also go to mikes reel repair or where ever and down load a schematic. You probably know this but, if you don’t. flip your reel seat over on the reel and it will tell you the exact model of your Stradic. Use that combination of letters and numbers to find your schematic. I have all of my schematics that either came with my reels or the ones I’ve downloaded laminated, 3 holes punched, and put in a binder for later use. When working on stuff I prefer to have hard copy of the schematics to go on. With them being laminated you will always have them.

if you have to take the internals out to fix It is not really all that hard to do. There are a lot of you tube videos out there especially for Stradics. Just lay everything out in order that it came out,

I only did it one time. I had bought st.croix 7ft premier UL intending to use it for trout fishing. I think most st.croix rods run lower in weight than what they say. I should have bought at least a ML. any how, middle of July rolls around and I’ve been working 12 hrs 7 days a week for the last 4 months. Buddy and I hit the river for smallies. I decided to use the UL as I paid about $230 Total for the set ( at that time I was spending maybe $100 bucks tops on rods and reels) up and decided I should finally try it out. Ended up Catching a crap ton small mouth with a ned rig. Extremely sensitive except when I started getting into legal sized fish they completely owned me. I think I was using either 4-6lbs mono. If they decided to go on a run there was litteraly nothing I could do about except let them take drag and where out enough to get them. The one I gotten close enough to me and he circled me about 3 times mid river . I had to go with him so my buddy about fell into the river laughing Watching me turn in circles fighting the fish. its fun but, I’d prefer not tire them out to land them in mid-summer River water temps. for the record I have been trout fishing exactly 2 times with That rod and bought it In the spring of 2017. Took me a while, To realize with my work schedule and living in the wrong part of the state that I should give up trying to trout fish. At least for a while.

So I saw these on a well known tackle site today. They basically allow you to switch differnt colors of blades out on chatter bait aka bladed jig. I don’t really make jigs to sell I make them for myself. however, these would be nice on a jig with vertical line tie like the poison jig mold I’m saving for. do you think using these gets around zman patent? Even just for personal use. I’d like to start tournament fishing and don’t want my door getting kicked in by z-man. because, The fish that won the local weekly tournament has a bladed jig in its mouth that has the blade attached by other means than a split ring.