Would you like to know the why, what, how and how to’s of these new products? I’d share this if you think it would be of intrest to you (and those others that I sent samples to). Hawger
yeah Hawger!…
for sure I would be interested, in this info!… let us know all about it!….
thanks
Well, I’ll be ringing my own bell here… but… here goes. FYI you guys I sent samples to. All others, just hang on…I am going to make these available to you thru EFN.
“Mother is the nessesity of invention”… and I had to invent this mother of all floaters! The new Hawg-EYE Floater is like nothing I have seen (or made before). It is built on “the perfect river walleye hook” according to James. I chose a BLUE colored, long shank 1/0 or 2/0 Mustad, after talking to James Holst about problems he’ld experienced with using “conventional” floaters. The hooks in the floaters he’ld been using do not offer enough stringth (they open up under the weight of a huge fish) and not enough gap to accomidate a deep set, into big fish. I chose BLUE as a color, after talking to Mustad’s rep. and finding that blue is the #1 color in sales down in the Southern market. The Mustad hook I chose is stronger and has a bigger gap, than any I have seen used on a any floater.
For a body, to float the hook, I searched high and low. I tried floating bug bodies, floating foam heads, floating rubber worm boddies… a long list of ideas that did not look right, track right in the water, or float high enough (or would not stay floating under constant use and abuse).
I thought I had found the right head in a material that I was to call “Fireworks” (then thinking of calling the new lure a Fireworks Floater) but the head material eventually got water-logged and would sink to the bottom, after it got soaked.
The “Fireworks” head on this hook evolved away from a floater concept… and into a jig. I realized that by squeezing all the air from the Fireworks head, and making it “waterlog”… I had a great looking slo-fall jig. Great looking is an under-statement. The Fireworks Waterlog Jig is the best looking head I have ever seen, with its bright color body all covered with tiny mylar flash tencil. I tested the jig to find the bass just loved it! I sprayed it with Super Juice – Dr. Juice scent, which it absorbed and holds on to extremely well. You can not find any material that’ll hang on to scent better (other than a sponge). When water-logged, the jig weighs enough to be casted plenty far (as a lead jig), but the slow fall is much slower than anything I have ever wittnessed. I am talking real, real slow. Much different than you are used to. This will allow you time to work a drop and stay in a fall, much longer.
Anyway, after testing it out a couple of times and getting more fish on it than on my cranks, I started to look for some eyes to add, to “dress-up” the Fireworks Waterlog Jig. I tried paint, water-proof color marker/paint, and glue on plastic eyes. Some plastic eyes I found looked great, but had so much added flotation that they actually made the Fireworks Waterlog Jig begin to float! I tried that setup. I liked the slo-fall version better than the floating version! So… I coined the innovative new jig concept… as the “Slo-falling” Fireworks Waterlog Jig. A done deal.
I kept expermenting with the eyes.
I ended up making up a version of larger plastic eyes that would actually float this hook. I added a weed-guard. I found that when a hook is being floated, that the weed-guard does not have to be very stiff or rigid to allow the hook to ride over and thru weeds. A floater weighs nothing in the water, it is truely weightless. I ended up using a small piece of 17 lb. Trilene line to serve as the weed-guard. This is soft enough to not be detected on the strike and stable enough to protect the hook from catching on limbs, snags, and weeds. I rigged this new Hawg-EYE Floater behind WORM WEIGHT STYLE BULLET SINKER, on a three foot snell. The bullet sinker/worm weight will come right through trees, brush, and weeds, with no problem (same as it does in front of a rubber worm) without bringing back any debris. Behind it follows the WEEDLESS Hawg-EYE Floater, the lure not snagging on anything either. When in testing, I could send it sailing right into a submerged tree, and retreve it! No hang-up. It is just like bringing back the rubber worm on a Texas rigged worm, only using a floater/live bait combo…. and everything is weedless!
I set the weed-guard in a way that it protrudes down and in front of the hook. The weed-guard guides, guides, and re-directs the hook over anything!
But there is more to the weed-guard… it is adjustable… the single piece of “mono” line can be pulled back and arranged to rest on the hook point. This position forms a bow in the line from the hook point to the place the line enters the eyes. This bow of line covers the hook point and now is “set” . I think of it as like like the “set” of a mouse trap. Placing on a bit of crawler first, than making the weed-guard in set position, puts the floater in a ready position. Ready in the fact that the weed-guard is set in its “LOCKED” POSITION. Locked on to the hook point, with a bow in it that bairly covers the hook point, thus making it super sensitive. Yet still weedless/snagless. The Hawg-EYE Floater can be rigged in this LOCKED or in the OPEN position. Both ways, it is weedless/snaggless. However, when LOCKED , the weed-guard is even less likely to be detected by a striking fish. Sort of in stealth mode, ready to seek and destroy walleyes or bass in trees.! Any tree snaggs in the river? Right!
The Floating eyes of the Hawg-EYE Floater do a great job in floating the hook and the eyes ….RATTLE! Any motion of the worm weight makes the floater “jiggle” when floating up above, and the eyes start to rattle. Rattle sounds can bring fish feeding in dark or stained water, from yards away to find a lure. And, nothing attracts fish and makes them strike like a real fish’s eye on a hook. This is what this lure simulates.
The floating eye of the Hawg-EYE Floater not only rattles, … it moves! The dark colored “pupil” is free to rotate or move when the lure is tilted or waggled (and starts to rattle). So, any motion of the floater “moves” the eye. This pupil movement is an additional attractor. When dressed with a crawler or leech, the hook falls down into a resting position. When pulled ahead, the waggle/wobble of a leech or 1/2 crawler in the water makes the hook rise to a flat position and shake side to side. This makes the eyes then “move” and begin to rattle!
A weedless/snaggless, “moving” fish eye… that rattles….I have hot been able to keep fish off of it! Everything eats it.
You’ll need to take care not to pull on the eyes when removing the hook from the fish. They are glewed on! Best is to use pliers, but the long shank hooks helps to get a better finger-hold of the hook itself. I do not know how many fish the Hawg-EYE Floater will catch before it “wears out” or if it will last forever, because it has not been field tested very long by anyone yet. I do know that it catches fish like crazy, looks great to fish, has the right hook for the river, is weedless/snagless, and rattles.
The Hawg-Eye Floater is only in two sizes, 1/0 and 2/0 hooks. There are no colors (as only the eyes are visible).
The Fireworks Waterlog Jig comes in the same hook sizes (1/0 and 2/0) in blue, green, pink, red, yellow, purple, or white. And has one of the world’s best scent attractors built into it. They’ll both come in packs of 12 for $7.50 (either hook size), or 24 in a pack for $14.50. When you order you’ll need to include $3.00 shipping.
You’ll get all of the one same color of Fireworks Waterlog Jigs in a bag of 12, when you order that color. Or, you can order an “ASSORTMENT” bag of 14 (for a the same price as a 12 pk.) that has two of each color in it.
A commission for each sale will go to EFN.
To order, contact me on a private message and I’ll tell you where to send your check, and answer any questions. Expect up to one or two weeks for a delivery time.
I’ll see if James or Steve can run the header for the Hawg-EYE Floater and a picture of the Fireworks Waterlog Jig on this post. Thanks.
Hawger / B-Fish-N Lure Co.
Edited by Hawger on 11/24/01 02:37 PM.
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…thanks again ,Tealtamer