03-04-2003, 11:36 AM
[cool]I will be emailing you the writeups on making and using the bait bugs and roadrunners. By the way, I also make some great inline spinners, using my jig molds and those synthetic materials. I can make them all the way from heavy to surface sputter.
Refer to the pic below for a visual on the attachment of the spinners. The Roadrunner jigs are poured with a small crane swivel in the special mold. You attach a split ring and a blade once you have the plain head painted. I have two kinds of molds. One, with a barbed collar, for fishing with plastics. The other is not barbed. That is the one I use for decorating with flashy colorful stuff. Note the big boy at the bottom. That is great for bass and salt water...with large twisters, shad or Hammers. The flashy little spinner sometimes really is a good addition.
Making spinner tails incorporates some of the same principles and materials as the Roadrunners. I use the same size 10 or 12 crane swivels I mold into the Roadrunners, and the same size 0 split rings and size 0 or 1 blades. I use bigger blades for big wooly buggers I fish at night for bass. I use a fine wire to tie to one loop of the crane swivel. Stiff mono works just as well, if not better.
The first step is to measure out the length you will want, by deciding how long you want the tail on the fly. Make the length of the wire/mono just long enough to have the spinner blade start at the far edge of the tail. Make a few wraps of thread on the hook shank and then wrap the wire/mono in position. Once anchored, you can make a few wraps of the wire/mono around the shank and then a few more wraps of thread over that. Clip off the excess wire/mono, and begin building your fly.
By the way, how do you like the colors on my jig heads? I have been doing a lot of glitter painting the last few years, and I put eyes on almost everything. I also have writeups on all of that stuff if you are interested.
If you fish for perch and corbina in the shallows, those little Roadrunners and bait bugs are dy=no=mite. As you astutely observed, they really come into their own when you hold them against current, or outgoing surge. They pick up off the bottom and those little blades give off vibrations similar to a sand crab trying to dig back in before getting slurped by a predator.
Since I pour and tie all my own stuff, I have been able to balance my offerings to the targets at hand. I do not have to settle for the hook sizes that come with commercially made jigs, and I make lots of modifications. Some big fish like a slow fall, or a slow swim in shallow water. You can't get that with a 1/4 to 1/2 ounce head. But, when you can pour a 1/8 or 1/16 oz head on a hook large enough to fish a 3" to 5" plastic, you can finess the heck out of finicky fishes.
Actually, when you get down into the 1/16 and 1/32 oz. size heads, you can fish them on fly rods too, if you have enough starch in your stick and know how to handle weight on the end of your line withour giving yourself an "earectomy". For some extra enjoys, try the super lite Roadrunners on a fairy wand.
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Refer to the pic below for a visual on the attachment of the spinners. The Roadrunner jigs are poured with a small crane swivel in the special mold. You attach a split ring and a blade once you have the plain head painted. I have two kinds of molds. One, with a barbed collar, for fishing with plastics. The other is not barbed. That is the one I use for decorating with flashy colorful stuff. Note the big boy at the bottom. That is great for bass and salt water...with large twisters, shad or Hammers. The flashy little spinner sometimes really is a good addition.
Making spinner tails incorporates some of the same principles and materials as the Roadrunners. I use the same size 10 or 12 crane swivels I mold into the Roadrunners, and the same size 0 split rings and size 0 or 1 blades. I use bigger blades for big wooly buggers I fish at night for bass. I use a fine wire to tie to one loop of the crane swivel. Stiff mono works just as well, if not better.
The first step is to measure out the length you will want, by deciding how long you want the tail on the fly. Make the length of the wire/mono just long enough to have the spinner blade start at the far edge of the tail. Make a few wraps of thread on the hook shank and then wrap the wire/mono in position. Once anchored, you can make a few wraps of the wire/mono around the shank and then a few more wraps of thread over that. Clip off the excess wire/mono, and begin building your fly.
By the way, how do you like the colors on my jig heads? I have been doing a lot of glitter painting the last few years, and I put eyes on almost everything. I also have writeups on all of that stuff if you are interested.
If you fish for perch and corbina in the shallows, those little Roadrunners and bait bugs are dy=no=mite. As you astutely observed, they really come into their own when you hold them against current, or outgoing surge. They pick up off the bottom and those little blades give off vibrations similar to a sand crab trying to dig back in before getting slurped by a predator.
Since I pour and tie all my own stuff, I have been able to balance my offerings to the targets at hand. I do not have to settle for the hook sizes that come with commercially made jigs, and I make lots of modifications. Some big fish like a slow fall, or a slow swim in shallow water. You can't get that with a 1/4 to 1/2 ounce head. But, when you can pour a 1/8 or 1/16 oz head on a hook large enough to fish a 3" to 5" plastic, you can finess the heck out of finicky fishes.
Actually, when you get down into the 1/16 and 1/32 oz. size heads, you can fish them on fly rods too, if you have enough starch in your stick and know how to handle weight on the end of your line withour giving yourself an "earectomy". For some extra enjoys, try the super lite Roadrunners on a fairy wand.
Are we having fun yet
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