01-21-2003, 03:47 PM
[cool] Dang it, WH2, whydja hafta spill the beans? Just for the record, I ain't in the tackle business. I don't sell my stuff, but I will be happy to share pics, writeups, instructions, diagrams, emails and even maybe a "test package" with those who know how to beg and grovel well enough.
I have been tying flies and experimenting with lure making for $#@ years. I'm kinda creative and I have been fortunate enough to come up with a whole buncha unique fly patterns and lure designs that ACTUALLY WORK. Like other folks who hang out here, I am a sharing kinda guy, so I don't mind passing on what I can, in the interest of helping others find new dimensions.
I think the lures WH2 has found so effective are probably the hammered sinker versions of my "perch urchins". About twenty years ago I began decorating Kastmasters with green prism tape, and adding chartreuse eyes, to catch the big perch and walleyes in Deer Creek and Yuba. That was inspired by seeing the large perch fry protruding from the gullets of many of my largest fish caught on other type jigs.
The original models worked so well, I experimented with different sizes and colors. Long before lure manufacturers started making lead jigging spoons, I found a bin of long saltwater sized sinkers, with wire loops on either end, in a closeout bin at Smith and Edwards. I bought a few, hammered them into a thin shape, prism taped and painted them and absolutely hammered the big perch through the ice in deep water. I bought the rest of the sinkers still in the bin on my next trip back to S & E. Still have a bunch of the original batch, but also pour my own these days.
As I recall, the white with a red eye, hot red and chartreuse with a red eye were the good colors last year on cisco. I usually take several colors and as the light conditions and depths change, I rotate until I find the hot ticket. I don't know which ones BLM's rocks might favor. Maybe a good brown model.
I also make a whole line of "bait bugs"...jigs especially designed to be fished with a piece of "sweetener" on them. Some are plain and others with spinner blades...the old Roadrunners. They are great for vertical presentations both in open water and through the ice.
I'm not at my home computer right now (goofing off at the office), but I will put up a post later with pics of the "urchins" and the bait bugs. Anyone who wants directions on how to make and fish them can email me at [url "mailto:pscouten@qwest.net"]pscouten@qwest.net[/url] or send me a PM through the BFT channels here. Most of them are not hard to make, but there are some subtle tricks to turning out the fancy stuff...including the use of glitter paints, adding eyes, etc. I use a lot of the synthetic "craft cord" and other materials you find in hobby shops, in the "Plastic Canvas" section. It makes some fantastic fly patterns too. Be happy to send some pics of those patterns if you are interested.
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I have been tying flies and experimenting with lure making for $#@ years. I'm kinda creative and I have been fortunate enough to come up with a whole buncha unique fly patterns and lure designs that ACTUALLY WORK. Like other folks who hang out here, I am a sharing kinda guy, so I don't mind passing on what I can, in the interest of helping others find new dimensions.
I think the lures WH2 has found so effective are probably the hammered sinker versions of my "perch urchins". About twenty years ago I began decorating Kastmasters with green prism tape, and adding chartreuse eyes, to catch the big perch and walleyes in Deer Creek and Yuba. That was inspired by seeing the large perch fry protruding from the gullets of many of my largest fish caught on other type jigs.
The original models worked so well, I experimented with different sizes and colors. Long before lure manufacturers started making lead jigging spoons, I found a bin of long saltwater sized sinkers, with wire loops on either end, in a closeout bin at Smith and Edwards. I bought a few, hammered them into a thin shape, prism taped and painted them and absolutely hammered the big perch through the ice in deep water. I bought the rest of the sinkers still in the bin on my next trip back to S & E. Still have a bunch of the original batch, but also pour my own these days.
As I recall, the white with a red eye, hot red and chartreuse with a red eye were the good colors last year on cisco. I usually take several colors and as the light conditions and depths change, I rotate until I find the hot ticket. I don't know which ones BLM's rocks might favor. Maybe a good brown model.
I also make a whole line of "bait bugs"...jigs especially designed to be fished with a piece of "sweetener" on them. Some are plain and others with spinner blades...the old Roadrunners. They are great for vertical presentations both in open water and through the ice.
I'm not at my home computer right now (goofing off at the office), but I will put up a post later with pics of the "urchins" and the bait bugs. Anyone who wants directions on how to make and fish them can email me at [url "mailto:pscouten@qwest.net"]pscouten@qwest.net[/url] or send me a PM through the BFT channels here. Most of them are not hard to make, but there are some subtle tricks to turning out the fancy stuff...including the use of glitter paints, adding eyes, etc. I use a lot of the synthetic "craft cord" and other materials you find in hobby shops, in the "Plastic Canvas" section. It makes some fantastic fly patterns too. Be happy to send some pics of those patterns if you are interested.
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