Jig Man

Yes your homemade baits can be as effective as commercially manufactured baits. Recycling leads to green or brown, (mostly brown) as colors mix. As for a ton of money, I bought everything needed to inject tubes. My very first tube cost me $400. As the cost has gone down over the last 6 years I'm getting close to what I can pay for them. Figure over $100 for each mold, injectors, blending block, plastisol, dozens of colorants, several colors and sizes of glitter microwave oven or hot plate, nor por, pyrex, or pans for melting, respirator, gloves, goggles, etc, etc. If you use over $100 worth of plastics yearly, you might come out in a decade or so.

What you need depends on how many jigs you will be using. If it were me I'd contact Siebert Outdoors, Cadman, or smalljaw and buy some poured heads. I'm sure one of those guys can make you what you want. Get them without paint if you want and without the weed guard installed. Then you can buy some skirts and make up some jigs to see how it goes without the initial investment of a couple of hundred bones for the lead pot, molds, hooks and other necessities for pouring. If all goes well then you can start buying all of the stuff needed to pour.

It sounds high to me. Why don't you book it out on NADA guides and see if he is in the ball park.

Where are the cracks?

The only cranking battery that I have found for running my aerator and both hds units is the Sears PM-1 AGM. Mine is 4 years old and still keeps everything going + it has 1150 CCA to crank my old Optimax in the winter.

I'd take Nitro off the list. The older ones weren't as well made as the newer ones are.

Yes it does overlay one on top of the other. I used it a few times with my units then decided it wasn't worth it.

I can only speak for the HMG. I own 8 of them they have always been good and served me well. I use them as much a I do my Gloomis or St. Croix Avids.

I don't have "spots" on the eye. The eye is not painted at all.

If you hold the jig by the hook eye when you dip it you won't have any paint in the eye.

Over the years I've tried a bunch of ways to short cut the hair jig tie. I've never found one.

I think it has to be the NMEA network for those units and they will then share waypoints.

Tex-skin.

Rules and regs vary from state to state. Check with your local DMV to see what all you need and how to get a new title.

I usually have about a foot of line hanging down. Use the Alberto instead of the Albright.

Xpress is the closest ride to a glass boat that you can get. The lift is incredible.

I have tried a lot of products and finally settled on Bow to Stern. It is a polymer sealer. You put on a coat and let it dry, put on another coat and let it dry, put on a 3rd coat and let it dry. Then you are good to go for a month or so depending on how often you use the boat and how much it is outside. For in between cleanings wipe it with a wet cloth and dry it with a towel. I've been using it for the last couple of years. It is good stuff.

54 gallons is the capacity of my boat gas tank. 60 miles one way in a tournament is probably the farthest I have gone at one setting.

You might try the pitzen. It works for me.

I use my regular mold. I took a piece of wire and taped it where I wanted the weed guard. Then I put it in a vise and squeezed it down tight. I opened it up and there was a grove in the mold just big enough to hold 90# sevelon or surflon coated cable. The groove isn't large enough to bother me when I don't pour with the weed guard.

X2 Unless you plan to use several hundred jigs every year.

I use marine grease for hubs, motor, and jack. It is one of the few things that I can buy at Wally World.

I fish a lot of clear water. My main color is green pumpkin, but red, black, white, blue, purple, smoke, and chartreuse also work for me.

You can find all of the stuff you need at Bass Pro, either in the store or on line.

Absolutely in the center. The main thing is to select where you like the pedal then mount the box so the pedal is exactly where you always want to find it.