bluegills

  • burnswas
    lake city mn
    Posts: 36
    February 3, 2011 at 1:32 pm #1302364

    anyone know where i could find a mold to make my own little tear drops. i have been looking but i just can not find them.

    trumar
    Rochester, Mn
    Posts: 5967
    February 3, 2011 at 1:43 pm #933172

    I spent a year looking and there is NOT one out there to be had by the public, tho I do some research and some in bulk and just painted them my self, at the time I believe I had found them on Ebay, but that was years ago.

    Good luck in your search

    Joel Nelson
    Moderator
    Southeast MN
    Posts: 3137
    February 3, 2011 at 3:11 pm #933251

    Take the smallest sized willowleaf blades and solder on a small, high quality hook. I’ve caught many a gill with these. Solder in some hooks with a 90 deg. bend for horizontal presentations. There’s a million ways to paint them too. Good luck and let us know how it goes!

    Joel

    Randy Wieland
    Lebanon. WI
    Posts: 13394
    February 3, 2011 at 3:36 pm #933268

    Quote:

    Take the smallest sized willowleaf blades and solder on a small, high quality hook. I’ve caught many a gill with these. Solder in some hooks with a 90 deg. bend for horizontal presentations. There’s a million ways to paint them too. Good luck and let us know how it goes!

    Joel

    FYI – use a tooth brush to clean off the flux off. Paint will stick much better that way. About 25 years ago I bought bulk bags of nearly every size ice blades. I’m sure someone out there must carry them. But another thing i used to do was drill out the other end of a willow blade, solder the “cupped side”, paint, add a hook/split ring and use as fluttering spoons for perch, crappies, and browns.

    I took a piece of wood, and carved out a pocket for the blades to sit in. Put the hook in a hemo over the blade and laid in the solder. Milemark_714 I know made tons of them years ago. You may want to drop him a PM and see if he still makes his own. He would know where to buy from.

    Randy Wieland
    Lebanon. WI
    Posts: 13394
    February 3, 2011 at 4:41 pm #933322

    I was on ebay, so i did a search for ice fishing jigs ( Jig Blades ) – there were about 20 listing averaging about $6.00 per 100

    Tom Sawvell
    Inactive
    Posts: 9559
    February 4, 2011 at 10:56 am #933604

    That copper blade. Great color. drill a second hole at the opposite end of the original, add split rings to both end and a hook to one. Use a narrow strip of bright orange tape to cover 1/2 of the blade the long way on one side. Trim the excess tape off the blade edge with a razor blade and you’ll have a super good trout blade. Crappies will be right up on the list too.

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