Off Season Creativity?

[SuperD]

Propnut, those are crazy beautiful! Nice job!

 

[BorntoFish01]

Propnut, those are awesome. What are you using to dye them?

 

[Propnut69]

Thanks for the complements. I have had a lot of fun dyeing these squids.
The dyes that I'm using are the spike -it dyes in the bottle and been using the spike -it dye pens also. All i have at the moment for colors are red,orange,blue and chartreuse. It's been interesting to mix color "a" with color "b" and get color "c " in the process.

 

[SilverBullets]

Great job on the squids Propnut!! Are the squids you start out with clear or are they already dyed a certain color?

 

[Propnut69]

Great job on the squids Propnut!! Are the squids you start out with clear or are they already dyed a certain color?

Some are clear, some are pearlesent, and some are factory dyed. Most the real bright pinks and oranges are RMT squids in dlb/glow pink and dbl/ glow orange.Some are other factory colors that i have added color or changed the color on. One of the biggest challenges was to make the inside one color,while keeping the outside of the squid a different color.

 

[SculpinKing]

I may have gone a bit nuts this off season. Still have enough hooks, beads, and blades to dow at least a hundred and fifty more lures.

 

[SuperD]

I see a number of fishy things there. The trick is to save the other components for on the water tackle building once you find out what's hot. Don't make too much stuff that doesn't get wet.

 

[trollmonkey]

Hagen's and some new gear

Finally ordered some goodies from Hagen's and put together some gear.SuperD I like your idea of tying a few and then more if you find a hot set up on the water.I definately have too much bought and made stuff that will never be tied on. I hope these work, I 'm going to try setting one rod with new stuff to see how it produces,

 

[trollmonkey]

A few new dodgers.First pic are 4" crow spoons, the second 4" thin spoons.

 

[SculpinKing]

Trollmonkey,
Thoe dodger look good. Hagens somehow forgot to include my Crow spoons in my order (but I ended up with some extra stuff so I didn't raise a fuss). I'm curious how they fish and look. I ordered some Kach-Moor spoons (which, in the 3.75" size appear too small for dodgers) and I wasn't much impressed with the finish. I've noticed someone has started selling them under their own name on one of the sponsor sites.

 

[trollmonkey]

Skulpin King I'd bet your scales(if you had them) the Kachmor spoons will work.We've been using F.S.T. and Half-Fast spoons approx 3"-3.5" and they work great on trout and kokes.Also check out Hagen's candlefish spoon,I like the middle size in the spotted green pattern.

 

[Polar Bear]

where did you get........

This is first set of tape for the year. Orders for metal and tape now going out.

hey , if I can ask .....where did you get the tape in the picture???

 

[MTmountainman]

Yes, where did you get the tape?