Plastic Jigs

[ravenlures]

Do es anyone make any jigs from a composit material, like plastic. I have made some with a mixture of plastic and iron, makes a greay slow fall.

[CNC Molds N Stuff]

I do some personal stuff with ABS plastic in a commercial version of a gingery type machine.

[21xdc]

Some use hot glue gun into the mold... ​

[ravenlures]

One thing I found out is plastic and humidity do not mix, since I do mixing in the basement I do it in the winter months when the humidity is down to under 40%. One other thing don't use paper cups they hold water, makes a big mess of the plastic, the first time I did it in the summer it shot out of the mold about 15 times it size.

[ravenlures]

Here is a picture of jigs.

[cadman]

Here is a picture of jigs.

Wow very nice. So are these jigs hard plastic or are they made of plastic you use for worms and craws?

[ravenlures]

They are hard plastic and weigh 5 grams or .176 ounces and are epoxy coated.

[CNC Molds N Stuff]

With a picture like that putting something most of us will recognize in the picture makes it more significant.  Some loose change works for me, although it kind of backfired on me once when I was doing some test shots for a customer in Australia, and he asked. how big those coins were.  LOL. 

[ravenlures]

Point Taken next time, thanks

 

Wayne

[Painter1]

Just curious, what is benefit of plastic over 3/16 lead-head?

[ravenlures]

 I made these jigs, since I live on the Menminee River in Northstern Wisconsin I made them really just for river fishing they don't get hung up on rocks very easy  and they get unsnagged easer because they are lighter and bigger. Since I live on the river I made them for my self I have sold some and they seem to work well. Since this river the Menominee River is just loaded with smallmouth, if you can't catch a bass on this river than take up golfing.

Wayne

[Brent R]

I bought a jig years ago at the Super Dome in New Oleans at a tackle show that was called the Slow Fall.. I fished it on and off for some time. I never even got a hit on it...so it ended up in file 13. The only thing it ever done for me was slow fall and it done that real well...LOL

[CNC Molds N Stuff]

I got some floating plastic jigs about a bazillion years ago, that I used with a twister tail grub for white bass.  We would fish two of them behind a huge agitator plug on long leaders.  So long we had to hold the rods up high in order to cast them.  Most days we would nail them on regular jigs, but some days those floating jigs really made the difference.  When they are on it isn't uncommon to catch white bass two at a time on multiple casts. 

 

Sometimes they like white sometimes they like black.  Not often they like some other color.