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Will Wetline

Greetings From Western Mass

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Hello, fellow bait makers.

 

I seek smallies in Massachusetts' Quabbin Reservoir and make a yearly trip to New York's Salmon River for steelhead.

 

Re bait making, my interest falls mainly into the Wire Bait category although I do tie egg pattern flies for steelhead.

 

I'm pleased to become a member of the TU community and welcome you to a tour of my tackle room:

 

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This bench and shelf unit has been repurposed from a former hobby, R/C model building and flying.

 

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The contents of this steel locker will be familiar to all who cast metal. Fishing in Massachusetts, all jigs and weights must be lead free if under 1 ounce so, since 2012, I've been using bismuth/tin alloys and will be trying pewter which won't be heat-critical to fully curing powder paint. (I won't miss the odor of vinyl paint!)

 

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Storage for rods and reels in my current rotation are in the rack on the floor and lots of feathers and other tying materials take up the top half of this shelf unit. Packages of soft plastics in boxes under the staging bench will be sorted into the plastic containers in the middle of the shelving while yet more stuff occupies the lowest levels. Do we ever acquire enough gear? Apparently not.

 

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This simple box fan worked well evacuating the fumes from vinyl paint and is still used to get unhealthy stuff out of the room.

 

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Here's the main bench where molding, painting, assembling and tying gets done.

 

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I forgot to sprinkle a few steelhead flies into this photo, but the baits you see pictured here leave the bench and are, on a good day, found in a smallmouth's jaw.

 

Comments and questions are welcome.

 

Will Wetline

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