Everything posted by Jig Man
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Hair Jigs?
Yes, with and with out why are you asking?
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What Is This Thing?
That is also my thoughts but I don't have any reels with parts like that on them.
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What Is This Thing?
I found this under the driver's console in my boat. I only have Shimano reels but can't find any missing anything like this. Sorry for the pic quality. I took several and never could get a good focus.
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How To Make Plastics
Remember when you combine a bunch of colors you will wind up with brown.
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Help Me Decide, Sahara, Syemetre, Or The Diawa Exceler
I gave up on the Ds and got rid of mine. I have several levels of S spinning including the Sahara and Symmetry reels. If you will use it a bunch, I'd get the Symmetry. I have some of them that are 11 years old and have been used a bunch. An occasional cleaning and once in a while an antireverse clutch is all they have had done to them.
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Discarded Soft Plastics
I remelt mine and make them into new baits. Find a bait maker and see if he will take your old plastics and recycle them. Just don't save him any Gulp as they still stink even when recycled.
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Upgrade For Lowrance Hds 5X
I don't understand what you mean by installing an upgrade from one unit to another. However, if your 5x is capable of seeing the lss1 structure scan then the ethernet cable is how it is done.
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Lowrance® Hds-7 Gen2 Ff/gps Chartplotter With Structurescasonar Bundle
Gman if you can swing it the 8 has way more features than the 7. One of my friends has bird and I can't stand to look at his 2d sonar. Low is much better. The down and side are close to the same except Low has 3 crystals in the ducer and bird has to do computer manipulations for part of theirs. As for customer service, I have never had issues with them and I have been using their techs for info for a lot of years.
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Boating Law?
It is hard to say since I don't know the rules for your state. Here in MO our law states that people can't sit in the up seats if the boat is going faster than trolling speed.
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A Couple Powder Painting Questions
If you only heat the jig head to the point where the paint goes on and looks "powdery and dull" then it is a thin coat and should not run when baked. I use superglue gel for holding the weedguards. It is quick and easy and dries in just a couple of minutes.
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New One For Me...swim Jigs
Those are nice looking. I don't normally put weedguard in mine as I am not bumping or hopping around cover or structure.
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Asking Prices Vs. Nada Value
Most people have an inflated opinion of what their stuff is worth. They don't think things depreciate as fast as they actually do. Add ons are a lot more valuable to the seller than they are to the buyer because they remember what they paid for them not what they are worth now. When you are looking at NADA be sure to check the *** to see what is included in the price. Sometimes it is the whole package and sometimes it excludes the trailer and/or motor. When that is the case you have to look them up seperately and add them.
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Winter Baitcast Storage
Yes loosen them. I keep mine loose on all my BC reels until I put a bait on them in the boat. When I put them away I loosen them before they go in the rod locker.
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Built A Fluid Bed
The volcanoes just show that the air is coming through. When this happens to me I turn the air down a bit and stir the paint. They usually go away. Use silicone instead of glue. Put the medium on a flat surface and place the cup on the silicone, press it down and go away.
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Checkout This Color
Looks a lot like my version of cotton candy.
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What Do You Use To Clean Your Sonars?
I use the small wipes that are for TV and computer monitors from Wally World along with a micro fiber cloth. They get all the water spots off easier than anything else I have ever used.
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Tube Jigheads
Most of the time I fish an exposed hook but I add a weedguard to it.
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Lowrance Vs Humminbird ??
I am running 2 hds 8 units with lss1 front and back. I can't see a lot of difference in the down and side of L vs B but I don't like the B 2d sonar at all.
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Been Awhile Since I Posted Some Paints
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!
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Whats A Good Pair Of Fishing Gloves?
I use UG Glove golf rain gloves.
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Cleaning Reels.
You might get something from this, http://www.bassresource.com/fishing/Reel_Care_tips.html
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Lowrance Vs Humminbird ??
I run a Low my bud runs a Bird. They both get the job done for us.
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Spinning Reel- 2011 Shimano Stradic Vs 2011 Bps Pro Qualifier
I'd want to know who has the current Pro Qualifier contract. Some of them used to come from places like Korea and they weren't quality.
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Repairing Bass Boat Seats
I haven't repaired boat seats but have 4 wheeler seats with the vinyl repair stuff from the auto parts store. You might check that out as an option.
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How Do You Guys Paint Your Spinnerbaits?
Without spending a bunch of money you can heat them in an stove oven or a toaster oven. If you have a heat gun or a small propane torch they will work. You can take a small cheap makeup brush and dip it into the powder, hold it over the heated head and tap the brush to get the powder to fall on the head and paint it. Rotate the head until it is all painted. I do this when I want to put 2 or more colors on a jig head.