Guys who make tackle,

I took some heat shrink tubing, stuffed it with cut pieces of silicone skirting (1" - 1/2" length) stuffed all of that over the shank of a treble, lit the tubing so that it molded to the shank. The pressure on the tubing caused the skirting to flare slightly. I have, what looks like to me, a pretty good dressed treble in a none-conventional way. See any problems with this method as opposed to the wrapped feather type?

No I don't.  Do you have any pics?

I don't know how you are getting the stuff through the shrink wrap but I have a tool for pulling rubber into beads.  I made it out of a worm sinker and some wire.

i dont see any problems with that, except that i imagine it would look pretty bulky with the tubing on it. also, the added weight might affect the action of the bait. also, heat shrink tubing seems to get looser over time (at least it does for me), so your skirt material might soon fall out. it is probably much easier to just tie the trebels, and it looks and preforms alot better too. when you are hand tying, you dont have to only tie feathers, you can tie whatever you want. you could tie bucktail, squirrel tail, or you could even tie your skirt material right to the hook.

just some ideas to work with.

Jigman - Here's the finished test.  I put one on a pop-r as well.

dave- I added a dab of glue to the tubing on the opposite side as the hook eye.  No lost silicone.  This took about 3-5 mintues to do.  It takes me about 3-5 minutes to tie one in the traditional way.  same same.  Tying the skirt material to the hook does'nt work so well.  It tends to "squirt" side to side on the hook so to speak.  You end up with all your stuff on one side of the hook.  It's not very uniform.

ok. that acutally looks pretty nice. not as bulky as i thought it would be.

im a pretty fast tier and i've been doing it for a while, and im also not so nimble with my fingers, and i think doing it your way would frustrate me.

im not sure what you mean when you have skirt material "squirting" to the side of your hook...lol. i tie skirt material to hooks all the time and it works out fine for me.

i also think that tying would be more durable, but fish your version and let us know how it does!