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Jigs, Spinnerbaits and Sinkers => Crappie / Pan Fish Jigs => Topic started by: MonteSS on 01/31/14 16:38 UTC
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Decided to do more panfish and crappie fishing this year. Saw this lil cricket mold and thought it might work well. Cold in the garage but was able to melt some old plastic and came up with these. Should be fun.
(http://i453.photobucket.com/albums/qq257/zz430t56/DSCN1304_zps30147d1d.jpg) (http://s453.photobucket.com/user/zz430t56/media/DSCN1304_zps30147d1d.jpg.html)
(http://i453.photobucket.com/albums/qq257/zz430t56/DSCN1319_zpsee009c09.jpg) (http://s453.photobucket.com/user/zz430t56/media/DSCN1319_zpsee009c09.jpg.html)
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You will have a TON of fun with those in my estimation... nice work, they look like fish catchers to me. ;)
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looks nice, good for perch to ;D
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40th ounce brass head small float, elly bar the door!
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Mind if I ask where that mold came from?
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Thanks all.
BT mold
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very nice ;D
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Here is a color I make called Chartreuse Pumpkin. Thicker body parts are pumpkin and thin parts and appendages are a lighter chartreuse. I also added some 015 fine brown flake.
(http://i453.photobucket.com/albums/qq257/zz430t56/DSCN1320_zps9816475d.jpg) (http://s453.photobucket.com/user/zz430t56/media/DSCN1320_zps9816475d.jpg.html)
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Now those are really nice!!!!!! You freezer will be full if you like crappie, those colors should be perfect, great work!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Melting some more old plastic. Not sure what to call this color.
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Looks like a honey mustard to me :)
-Jeremiah
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Great work, they should all catch fish!
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Split Pea Soup !
nice looking baits. ;)
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MMMMM, love me some split pea soup.
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Bet you could use it weightless on a fly rod over a bream bead and catch a limit in just a few minutes. Would beat using live crickets. Them little buggers get loose in your boat and they'll run you crazy!
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I was just thinking the same thing... a fly rod for some top-water action... get those pannies busting the surface!
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I will make some floating ones too. I am going to try fly fishing this year too. Think a #8 hook is about right for that?
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I was wondering when someone was going to bring up a fly rod. Those crickets would fish good on a floating line or an intermediate line if you wanted to fish it in the water column. The hellgrammite that Chuck posted a month or so ago would catch trout like crazy if you could get it to tumble through the stream bed. If you guys are marketing those baits, you're missing the boat if you're not selling to fly shops.
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We don't have trout but we have some monster bream.
On Pickwick a lot of the banks are rock bluffs. The catfish spawn on these bluff walls. We take a fly rod, bream cork and red worms with very little weight and fish these. You roll it up to the wall and hang on. The largest I've ever caught weighed 32 pounds. Now that's a fight on a eight foot fly rod.
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Now that's a fight on a eight foot fly rod.
No kidding.
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I have looked at this mold a number of times. I just never pulled the trigger on it because We had the helgies. Thanks for the tip Denny! We will have to market to fly shops. Anyway, great looking crickets monte! You will for sure catch a ton of fish one those.
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I will make some floating ones too. I am going to try fly fishing this year too. Think a #8 hook is about right for that?
Without having the crickets in hand, I would only be guessing on best hook size... I'm sure whatever you think is right will be fine. The only thing you need to worry about is keeping them on the surface... if you can do that (and put them over the fish's heads), I think they will have to bite because they look so good.
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Monte SS, is that a do-it mold? Or where can it be found?
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BT mold.
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Thank you sir.
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Even with my floating formula there is not enough plastic in this bait to float i tiny hook. :(
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hey those are some cool crickets nice colors 8) and yes they do catch trout and panfish heres a tiger trout I caught on a black cricket with a little siver and blue glitter in it I fish them on a size 10 fly hook or a small 1/32oz jig head with a #6 red hook
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh148/trfishin/IMG_2134.jpg) (http://s255.photobucket.com/user/trfishin/media/IMG_2134.jpg.html)
heres a rainbow on the cricket hes not ready to be landed yet
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh148/trfishin/IMG_2152.jpg) (http://s255.photobucket.com/user/trfishin/media/IMG_2152.jpg.html)
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh148/trfishin/IMG_2807-1.jpg) (http://s255.photobucket.com/user/trfishin/media/IMG_2807-1.jpg.html)
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Never heard of a tiger Trout. It is beautiful. Nice job.
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I haven't heard of it either but I caught a trout last year in late September that looked very similar? Thought it was a rainbow.. Where are these native?
-Jeremiah
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Great post, perch. I hope you post on here more often.
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thanks guys those tiger trout are a cross bred trout a brown trout and brook trout cross. they fight hard and grow big 8) Here are a few I have caught and released ice fishing These were caught in Utah and we have some here in Wyoming but not as many. I travel a lot to fish for different fish
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh148/trfishin/IMG_3256.jpg) (http://s255.photobucket.com/user/trfishin/media/IMG_3256.jpg.html)
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh148/trfishin/IMG_3190.jpg) (http://s255.photobucket.com/user/trfishin/media/IMG_3190.jpg.html)
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh148/trfishin/IMG_3206.jpg) (http://s255.photobucket.com/user/trfishin/media/IMG_3206.jpg.html)
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what kinds of small panfish jigs do you all like to use? do any of you have the 1" nano fry I see it in the store. if you do and would be interested in selling a few please let me know I like to check the baits out if they are what Im looking for I buy the molds thanks
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For panfish molds I have the 1.75" crappie carrot, the 1.75" croaker, and a 2.25" grub from another company. Lots of the guys on here have the nano fry. Post something in the bait trade forum, I'm sure you'll find someone who has some extras. Great pics and welcome to the forum. I'm not a big fan of hybrid fish stocking, but they're pretty and fun to catch anyway. :)
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Hey thanks a lot for the info I will give that a try. I have a BT tiny frog and love it but I have my eye on getting that 1.75" croaker soon to. Those tiger trout are a sterile trout they don't reproduce and are being put in lakes for anglers to have more variety of fish to catch and more fish to catch and eat. OR release what ever each angler wants to do with their catch.
what kinds of panfish are you guys chasing and what kinds of plastics are you all making for panfish?
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Great pics there - I just grabbed the cricket mold as I figured they'd be great for the browns as well up here in Canada and the pics sure show it - figure I would drift them under a flits like roe
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Beautiful fish.
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thanks guys they are a small thin bait but they do catch some BIG fish people look at me with those looks :o im sure you all have seen before
Its one of those What the Heck are you thinking you redneck using a plastic cricket until the drag starts screaming and its FISH ON I use more small panfish baits for trout than most do and I catch a lot more fish than they do to. Oh they do catch panfish and bass to 8)
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Now that's a good looking cricket!
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Those tiger trout are a sterile trout they don't reproduce and are being put in lakes for anglers to have more variety of fish to catch and more fish to catch and eat.
At least they're sterile. They still compete with the native fish for forage and habitat. It's always driven me nuts that natural resource agencies freak out about invasive species (snakeheads, carp, etc) yet support stocking fish that are not native and equally as damaging to the food chain.
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what a fish with such a small lures :o
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thanks guys they are pretty good size fish for a 1/32 jighead with a #6 hook or a size 10 fly hook its a ton of fun for sure. 8)